Lindahl acted as legal advisor to the Uppsala-based solar energy company HPSolartech in connection with a financing where French Omnes Capital’s fund Capenergie Renewable Energy invests in the company and becomes the new majority owner. Omnes Capital is a leading European private equity and infrastructure investor with extensive experience of working with entrepreneurial companies within the field of renewable energy and power production.
HPSolartech’s ambition is to become Sweden’s leading independent power producer (IPP) within solar energy and through Omnes’ investment the company has secured financing for the construction of the first solar power plants of in total 1.5 GW, which will become operational in the period between 2023 and 2028.
For more information regarding HPSolartech and the transaction, please see this link (in Swedish).
Lindahl has advised on all legal aspects of the transaction and team members from several practice groups have been involved in the project. Lindahl’s team was led by Mårten Steen and included Michael Edquist, Erika Svensson, Andreas Mellberg, Disa Almqvist, Emira Peterson and Mikael Olsson (Private Equity and Corporate Finance), Anna Romell Stenmark and Åsa Fahlén (Tax) and Lovisa Lagerwall and Peter Wahlbäck (Real Estate).
