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Corporate Carbon undertakes ‘innovative’ ACCU financing
National law firm Piper Alderman has advised Corporate Carbon Group on an innovative Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) financing deal.
Jerome Doraisamy
Firm: Piper Alderman (Corporate Carbon)
“ACCUs will be generated through greenhouse gas abatement activities, which Corporate Carbon, together with Forever Wild Ltd — a national social and environmental enterprise — will undertake on the acquired land.”
Area: Projects
Value: N/A
Key players: The Piper Alderman team was led by partner Martin Lovell and associate Oliver Radan.
Deal significance: Mr Lovell said that the firm was “proud” to have worked with Corporate Carbon in “developing an innovative new financing structure which harnesses carbon credits to support biodiversity and better environmental outcomes”.
“We expect that this transaction will pave the way for other sustainable projects to be debt funded on a similar basis,” he said.
Corporate Carbon managing director Gary Wyatt added: “Piper Alderman’s clear and concise legal advice was crucial in enabling us to complete this complex transaction.
“They were able to efficiently identify the material contractual points of difference and offer practical solutions. Their involvement allowed us to achieve the best contractual outcomes.”
Jerome Doraisamy
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly and HR Leader. He has worked at Momentum Media as a journalist on Lawyers Weekly since February 2018, and has served as editor since March 2022. In June 2024, he also assumed the editorship of HR Leader. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of the Minds Count Foundation.
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