Rasha Sami | Lawyers

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UK (England & Wales)

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Energy & Infrastructure

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Energy and Utilities
Infrastructure

Testimonial

"Advising across legislative, regulatory and contractual issues, I help public and private sector clients deliver first-of-a-kind, complex delivery models that are essential to energy transition and major infrastructure projects. I thrive on complexity and finding creative solutions. Whether it's structuring a novel delivery model or interpreting evolving energy policy, I translate technical legal and regulatory challenges into practical, commercial outcomes. I'm passionate about enabling the infrastructure that will define our future.”

Overview

Rasha Sami is an energy and infrastructure specialist with 15 years' experience advising on major projects across regulated sectors, including energy, water and rail, with a particular focus on energy transition.

Her practice spans policy development, legislation, regulation and commercial contracts, acting for a mix of public and private sector clients. Rasha has advised the UK Government extensively — including the Department for Transport on major rail projects and sector reforms, and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (“DESNZ”) on its new nuclear programme over an eight-year period.

Rasha’s advice to DESNZ culminated in the successful financing of the £38bn Sizewell C nuclear power plant. Navigating genuinely uncharted territory, Rasha helped design and implement a new legislative and regulatory model for the project — a landmark outcome for the UK's energy future.

She has deep expertise in economic regulatory frameworks and government support arrangements, advising across Regulated Asset Base models in the water, nuclear and carbon capture, utilisation and storage sectors. Rasha specialises in innovative, first-in-market transactions in the low carbon space. Recent work includes advising Eni on their Track 1 carbon capture, utilisation and storage Transport and Storage Project — one of the UK's pioneering carbon capture initiatives.

Beyond project structuring and development, Rasha also advises on the sale and purchase of regulated assets. She brings a comprehensive understanding of how regulatory frameworks affect asset value, risk allocation and transaction structures — an edge that adds real commercial value for clients.

Experience

Rasha played a lead role to advise clients on the following projects:

Advising a major water company on proposed reservoir project to be procured under the Special Infrastructure Projects Regulations.
Advising the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on its new nuclear programme, including designing and implementing the Regulated Asset Base Model for the Sizewell C nuclear project.
Advising Eni as owner and operator of its Track 1 HyNet CO₂ Transport and Storage carbon capture, utilisation and storage project, with a focus on the new economic regulatory regime and government support package.
Advising Thames Water on the £4.2bn procurement of the infrastructure provider for the Thames Tideway Tunnel, and developing the associated regulatory and contractual framework.
Advising the Department for Transport on the cessation of national franchising arrangements and the implementation of Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements with English train operating companies in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Advising on major rail projects including the Intercity Express Programme, Thameslink, HS1, HS2 and the Dublin Metrolink Project.
Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the acquisition of seven AGR nuclear sites from EDF Energy.

Education, Qualifications and Languages

BA Jurisprudence, Oxford University.

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