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 as 'Green Ambassador' by the Legal 500.
"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)