Yolanda Yong

Yolanda’s practice focusses on the placement of transactional risk products in energy M&A globally together with HWF’s other specialists. Yolanda enjoys working with a range of clients, including corporates (developers, utilities), institutional investors, and PE funds using her experience to help them navigate the placement of transactional risk insurance policies in this sector.

Recent experience

• Advised Voltwise Power with structuring a buy-side W&I policy for the acquisition of a c.610 MW battery energy storage systems (BESS) portfolio consisting of 13 projects across the UK. Voltwise Power is one of the largest independent utility-scale BESS owners and operators in the UK, backed by Sandbrook Capital.
• Advised on the placement of transactional risk insurance for Octopus Renewables’ minority investment into East Anglia One, offshore wind farm featuring 102 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 714MW from Macquarie.
• Advised on the placement of a buy-side W&I policy for TAQA Transmission’s acquisition of Transmission Investment, a leading developer and managerof electricity transmission infrastructure assets in the United Kingdom
• Advised on the placement of a sell-side policy for the UK infrastructure bank’s investment into a provider of electric vehicle charging solutions with over 800 locations across the United Kingdom
• Placed a buy-side W&I policy for NTE Energi, a leading Norwegian energy company focused on the production and distribution of renewable energy, on its c. €300m acquisition of one of the largest portfolios in Norway, comprising of two operating onshore wind farms in northern Norway with a total installed capacity of 288MW.
• Advised on the placement of a W&I policy for Next Energy’s acquisition of a portfolio of 66 operational PV solar plants based in Poland with a total installed capacity of 65.57 MW.
• Advised on the placement of transactional risk insurance policies for Lyse’s first onshore wind power investment in Eigersund, Norway. The 111.2 MW onshore wind farm is one of the largest operational onshore wind farms in Norway.

Yolanda has spent a decade practising as an energy transactional lawyer advising on a wide range of transactions in the sector. She qualified into the Ashurst energy and infrastructure team and then worked at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in the M&A and PE practice focusing on renewable energy transactions.  She spent almost a year on secondment to an offshore wind farm and has been ranked as a Rising Star in M&A in the Legal 500.