US-headquartered law firm, White & Case announced today the appointment of Kristian Bradshaw as local partner within its Project Development and Finance practice, based in Tokyo.
“The energy transition is creating long-term opportunities for outbound and inbound project development and finance, and energy M&A transactions, particularly in connection with renewable energy projects and emerging technologies, such as hydrogen; and decarbonisation technologies, such as carbon capture and storage,” said Tokyo-based White & Case partner Paul Harrison, in the announcement.
His appointment is effective March 1, a spokesperson for the firm told FinanceAsia, declining to confirm the size of the practice following Bradshaw’s appointment. The spokesperson added that the role has not been newly created, but did not elaborate further on who Bradshaw replaces.
Bradshaw joins from Japanese energy exploration and production company, Inpex Corporation, where he was general counsel to the firm’s Abadi LNG Project in Indonesia.
Prior to this, he served as counsel in the Energy, Projects and Infrastructure team at Allen & Overy in Tokyo.
