UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has acted alongside lead adviser for Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, Masdar, in a deal that sees Masdar acquire a 25% stake in Statoil’s Hywind Scotland floating offshore windfarm.

The innovative offshore floating Hywind wind turbine, moored in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast, demonstrates how Trelleborg Offshore’s syntactic foam buoyes contributes to the future of offshore power generation. “People see the tower and turbine, but forget that the expertise in designing the subsea portion is also critical, because it keeps the whole…