Michelle T. Davies

Michelle Davies has in-depth experience advising global companies with their energy transition, climate change, and decarbonized solutions.

Michelle has worked with financial institutions, clean energy and energy transition developers and suppliers, corporations, and governments on innovative and complex mandates in the climate and sustainability space and across all forms of renewable and clean energy (onshore and offshore wind, solar, clean hydrogen, biofuels, biomass, and energy from waste). Michelle has helped clients create and finance large global decarbonized offtake structures and create finance vehicles across private and public capital markets.

Michelle has advised carbon, sustainability, and energy funds and developers and governments in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), and the Middle East/Africa (MENA).

Prior to joining Jones Day, Michelle advised funds on fund raising and investments across numerous established and new energy transition assets. Michelle also advised developers on fund raising and projects globally across all technologies and worked with various governments on developing energy transition frameworks and carbon trading and funding structures. Most recently she advised an EV (electric vehicle) charging infrastructure company on a fund raise and joint venture with its new investors and advised a large Saudi corporate on a fund raise for clean energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, an Australian developer on the sale of its solar and BESS (battery energy storage system) portfolio, and an Irish developer on its solar portfolio sale.

Michelle also has advised clients on solar projects in Bulgaria, Niger, and Zambia and projects involving CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage), lithium mine, land rights, grid connection offers and planning permissions for a proposed gas powered electricity generation project, and distributed energy solutions involving smart grid access across large-scale residential housing premises.