Burges Salmon is a UK law firm which specialises in Energy. We act on all types of energy transactions and projects for developers, funders, investors, supply chain companies, government departments and public bodies. The firm operates throughout the UK and in all major European and international jurisdictions.
We have been advising on hydrogen for many years and our lawyers sit on the Executive of the HEA, have sat on UK Government’s Hydrogen Task Force working group for standards and regulation, and work closely with the Department for International Trade. We promote industry dialogue through regular round-table events and seminars. Our work spans all forms of hydrogen from large clusters to on-site bespoke solutions. As well as the hydrogen producers and developers, we work closely with renewable energy providers engaged in the opportunities which hydrogen presents and with the demand
side of hydrogen looking at future supplies and uses.
We offer a full suite of legal services to ensure you are fully-supported at whatever point you are in the hydrogen project or investment life cycle, including advising on: Consenting,
Regulatory Matters, Procurement, construction, operation and decommissioning, Corporate, Financing, Taxation, Real estate, Dispute management and trouble-shooting.
Lee is currently CEO of Fuel Cell Systems Ltd (FCSL). Industry insiders often talk about Hydrogen’s Chicken and Egg problem: Vehicle manufacturers cannot sell hydrogen vehicles without a refuelling infrastructure; Infrastructure & fuel network providers cannot recoup their investment if there are not enough vehicles using hydrogen. The result is Gridlock! Our approach has been to redefine the Chicken and Egg problem as simply “Refuelling Infrastructure is too expensive”. Now that’s an engineering problem we can fix!
Prior to FCSL, Lee spent eight years at UK Fuel Cell manufacturer Intelligent Energy, completing his time there as Chief Sales Officer. Leading the global commercial team and launching Intelligent Energy’s low carbon hydrogen products in to three market sectors: automotive, power generation and aviation. Lee’s involvement with the hydrogen industry started back in 1995 when among other projects he supported the field trials of SOFC CHP.
