John Sheehy

John Sheehy is the CEO of global boutique corporate advisory firm, Pottinger. John has 20 years’ experience in professional services (covering finance, consulting and law) in Australia, UK, US and Russia, focusing on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and partnerships, capital raisings and growth strategy development. He is a leading renewable energy investment banker in Australia, having advised on project and platform-level M&A and financings for over 20GW of energy generation and storage assets.

His experience includes advising:

• BNRG Leeson on the sale of the c. 600MW Corop solar/BESS project to OX2, part of EQT
• Elgin Australia on the sale of the business, including its c. 7GW portfolio of hybrid solar/BESS and standalone BESS projects
• ACEnergy on the proposed sale of the 500MW Central BESS and 400MW Gara BESS
• ArcActive on its partnership with Origin Energy, ARENA grant and proposed $110m series C funding round
• Enervest on its co-development partnerships and sales of the 1GW Hanworth BESS to Octopus Investments and the Stoney Creek BESS to Energy Vault Inc. 
• Gryphon Energy on its co-development and capital partnership with AMPYR Energy, part of AGP Sustainable Real Assets, in connection with the c. 400MW Rutherglen BESS 
• Elements Green on the proposed sale of the 1.5GW+ Eurimbula solar/BESS project
• Fortescue Energy on various renewable energy investment and M&A opportunities
• Birdwood Energy on the establishment of its c. $1bn distributed energy platform with Aware Super
• Photon Energy on its 1.2GW platform JV with Canadian Solar and subsequent asset sales to First Solar, Wirsol (now Gentari), Canadian Solar (now Recurrent Energy) and CleanPeak Energy
• G8 Energy on the proposed sale of the Sydney Super BESS
• Future Super and Green Squares Energy on the proposed sale and capital partnership for its distributed energy platform
• Green Peak Energy on its distributed energy capital partnership with CBRE Investment Management
• The founding shareholders of Elanora, an Australia-focussed offshore wind developer, on its formation
• AMPYR Energy on various financing transactions relating to its distributed energy business

Prior to joining Pottinger, John was a member of the M&A team at Linklaters LLP in London, Moscow and New York. While at Linklaters in London John was seconded to the corporate legal team of FTSE 100 company, National Grid plc.