Alexander Severance
Alexander Severance’s energy and renewables practice has a special focus on fixed and floating offshore wind projects. He has worked extensively in the offshore wind space since 2011.
Prior to joining DLA Piper, Alexander was a Lead Counsel with the leading offshore wind turbine OEM, where he managed a multinational team of seven qualified attorneys. He also provided primary legal support and negotiated multi-project, multi-year, and multi-jurisdictional framework agreements, turbine supply agreements, service and maintenance agreements and related supporting agreements for some of the leading offshore wind turbine OEM’s largest, most complex, innovative, and award-winning wind projects around the globe. These included both fixed-bottom and floating wind farm projects.
Alexander regularly writes and publishes on a variety of legal topics related to the offshore wind sector.
- Multiple Turbine Supply Agreements and Service and Warranty Agreements for award-winning offshore wind projects totaling more than 6,000 MW of nameplate capacity, including projects in in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Taiwan
- Multi-year, multi-project supply and service framework agreement for fixed-bottom wind turbines
- Multi-year, multi-project supply and service framework agreement for floating wind turbines
- Multi-year, multi-project, multi-jurisdictional supply and service framework agreement
- Multi-year, multi-project, global turbine supply-only framework agreements
Alexander Severance is recognized by The Legal 500 within 'Energy' and as 'Green Ambassador'.
"Alexander Severance is a well known and recognised offshore wind lawyer with many years of practice. His advice is always to the point, never too long and he is not afraid of giving specific practical advice. It is always great fun working with him."
"Chapter 12: Offshore wind licensing in the United States of America", in Anchustegui, I. H. & Hunter, T.S. (eds), Offshore Wind Licensing, Edward Elgar (2024), pp. 209-233.
"Annex to Mare Incognitum, Part II: A Draft Mobile Offshore Renewables Unit Convention", vol. 46(2) Tulane Maritime Law Journal 245 (2022) (https://tlsstore.law.tulane.edu/Product/tulane-maritime-law-journal-articles/annex-to-mare-incognitum-part-ii-a-draft-mobile-offshore-renewables-unit-convention)
"Mare Incognitum, Part II: Is it Feasible to Salvage the Vancouver Draft Mobile Offshore Unit Convention by Converting It into a Mobile Offshore Renewables Unit Convention?", vol. 46(1) Tulane Maritime Law Journal 1 (2022) (https://tlsstore.law.tulane.edu/Product/tulane-maritime-law-journal-articles/mare-incognitum-part-ii-is-it-feasible-to-salvage-the-vancouver-draft-mobile-offshore-unit-convent)
"Mare Incognitum, Part I: Do We Now Need (to at least Discuss) a Mobile Offshore Renewables Unit Convention?", vol. 45(2) Tulane Maritime Law Journal 287 (2021) (https://tlsstore.law.tulane.edu/Product/tulane-maritime-law-journal-articles/mare-incognitum-part-i)
“Flagging the Floating Turbine Unit: Navigating Towards a Registerable, First-Ranking Security Interest in Floating Wind Turbines” (co-written with Martin Sandgren), vol. 39(1) Tulane Maritime Law Journal 1 (2014) (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3694505)