Hannah Buckley

Hannah Buckley is an Associate in the Energy and Infrastructure team in London, focusing on Infrastructure Law. She works as a Commercial associate with a focus on renewable energy, defence and infrastructure projects.

Prior to joining Bird & Bird, she worked in-house at a development company focusing predominantly on renewable energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. She worked as part of a team developing a hydropower project, working on the drafting and preparation of financing and project documents, as well as ancillary documentation. As part of the project development, she worked closely with prospective lenders and providers of credit enhancement facilities, as well as with government ministries and stakeholders, specifically in Sierra Leone.

As part of a different venture for the same company, she gained in-house experience on the legal aspects of mining, including the negotiation and drafting of offtake and gold-purchase agreements for a mining operation in Ghana.

She also has experience working across energy and infrastructure projects from a number of cross-border, multi-jurisdictional transactions during her time at another international law firm, within both the Capital Markets and Project Finance teams.