Client industry · November 2026
Power & Renewables: who advises the sector
Dated deals for power & renewables clients over the last 12 months, the practices and firms behind them, and how lawyers with this focus moved.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 1,989
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +27.6%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $500m
- Median disclosed value
- 970
- Distinct clients
What the data show
Sartori & Partners data count 1,989 dated deals for Power & Renewables clients from November 2025 to October 2026. On settled windows the deal count went from 1,575 to 2,009, up 27.6% year on year. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By practice, Projects & Infrastructure is involved in 32.9% of these deals and Corporate & M&A in 27.7%. By deal type, Capital markets is involved in 25.2% of these deals and Project & infrastructure finance in 24.8%.
Deal value was disclosed on 27.7% of them; where disclosed, the median was $500 million. 970 distinct clients appear across the window.
First among advising firms is Latham & Watkins, with deals in the 101-150 band.
Lawyers whose work centers on Power & Renewables changed firm 285 times in the same window. Partners were 43.9% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed -5.5%.
For a company in Power & Renewables, the adviser table shows where sector experience sits, which is where an in-house hire is most likely to come from.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Deals (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latham & Watkins | 101-150 |
| 2 | White & Case | 101-150 |
| 3 | Clifford Chance | 61-100 |
| 4 | Watson Farley & Williams | 61-100 |
| 5 | Hunton Andrews Kurth | 61-100 |
| 6 | CMS | 61-100 |
| 7 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 41-60 |
| 8 | Kirkland & Ellis | 41-60 |
| 9 | DLA Piper | 41-60 |
| 10 | Hogan Lovells Cadwalader | 41-60 |
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- The Price of a Power Lawyer: 23.3% Change City, 16.1% Step Up
Lawyers focused on power and renewables changed city on 23.3% of their moves and joined at a higher title on 16.1%, both above the market. A developer or investor hiring in-house can recruit across cities, and should expect to offer a step up.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026 - Up 27.6%, Power and Renewables Deals Lean on Project Finance
Power and renewables deal flow rose 27.6%, 2.6 times the growth rate of the whole deal market, and project and infrastructure finance runs at 11.8 times its market share. That mix reshapes the adviser list just below the top: firms outside the market's top 10 hold fourth, fifth and sixth place.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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