Paul Curnow

Paul Curnow is a partner in the energy & resources practice and the global co-head of energy.

Paul is recognised as one of Australia's leading renewable energy lawyers and globally as a long-standing market leader in climate change and sustainable finance. He has extensive experience in all aspects of clean energy markets, including in project development, innovative offtake arrangements, energy regulation and financing. For more than two decades, Paul has been a driving force behind renewable energy greenfields and M&A transactions across solar, wind, pumped hydro, batteries, energy from waste and other emerging technologies at both utility-scale and distributed energy generation, and a long-standing policy voice for the clean energy sector.

Paul acted as General Counsel of Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation (on secondment) from its set up in 2013, overseeing the legal execution of the financing of clean energy projects and reporting to the CEFC Board. Paul is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of New South Wales Law School where he lectures in renewable energy law.