Solutions-focused specialist law firm servicing construction, energy, renewables, BESS, technology and infrastructure projects

Ehren Terenyi – Director, Renew Legal

Ehren has worked in the construction industry for 23 years, and the last 12 years as a lawyer advising on setting up the agreements, project delivery and dispute resolution. He works on large scale construction, energy, and technology-construction integration projects. He has deep experience delivering practical, commercial outcomes on renewables, BESS, DCs and infrastructure projects, has helped to deliver over 10 GW of projects in the Asia Pacific region.

Problems and solutions

Getting to FID - Developers and owners

Problem

If you don’t line up all the different parts of the development, land, procurement, offtake, connection and government scheme requirements, you might not get reach FID.  This can stall the timeline, especially on split scope projects.

Solution

Renew Legal is the advisor that takes ownership of the interface gaps in the project agreement during drafting and negotiation.

Experience

  • All project agreements on 16 BESS projects across Victoria, NSW, Queensland and South Australia, plus connection, revenue, CIS and FERM schemes.
  • Consultant projects advisor to two multinational BESS developers on development, land, procurement, delivery, offtake, FID / FC, SOCI, FIRB, cyber and OT requirements.
  • Development, exclusivity, options and landowner leases for a 60MW wind farm, plus investment partner tender process.
  • Supported delivery of 10GW+ of renewable, wind, BESS, off-grid renewables hubs, and hybrid hub projects across Asia Pacific.

Tenders and risk allocation - Principals and contractors

Problem

Contractors bidding on D&C, EPC, O&M and consultancy tenders need to price risk correctly to get board approval to bid.  Principals issuing RFPs need to assess the impact of the responses.

Solution

Renew Legal produces commercial and minimal departures to get through to the negotiation stage.  For Principals running an RFP, we know the market and which departures actually matter.

Experience

  • Designed and prepared energy split scope RFPs and advised on tender responses for project developers.
  • Negotiated consultancy / D&C / O&M agreements for contractors on BESS, solar, wind, substation and data centre projects — 400MW in Victoria, 1GW+ in Queensland, plus NSW and South Australia.
  • Advised engineering contractors on tenders and contract administration for government, utility and tunnel consultancy agreements.
  • Advised an OEM on tenders for control systems and tolling infrastructure across NSW, Victoria, Singapore, ACT, Queensland, NZ, Philippines and Thailand.

Project finance - Working with lenders on risk

Problem

A project’s financiers need comfort on the actual risks in your project agreements, EPC / SI / TSA / O&M / LTSA / commissioning terms and live disputes for real risk exposure, not just lengthy due diligence reports.

Solution

Renew Legal is the adviser that understands and has delivered bankable project agreements, EPC/O&M terms, navigates execution disputes and promotes effective contract administration, helps you to give your lenders a clear risk picture.

Experience

  • Advised borrowers on portfolio and project-specific financing and due diligence on 20+ Australian BESS, wind and solar farm projects.
  • Advised financiers on project agreements, EPC, O&M, execution disputes and contract administration for BESS projects around Australia, wind farms in Queensland, NSW, South Australia and Victoria, and solar farms in Queensland.

Disputes - Protecting value and relationships

Problem

Failed claims erode margin.  Delays erode margin and lead to disputes.  Variations need to be carefully phrased and managed.  Payments are used to drive behaviour. Dispute advice is overlooked to focus on commercial resolution.

Solution

Renew Legal stays out the (commercial) way, while protecting the business with a robust dispute strategy – developed early and through working directly with project and executive teams.  Doing this early preserves options and your business relationships.

Experience

  • $100m+ delay and breach of contract claim against a technology JV partner on an infrastructure project.
  • Embedded full-time in a client’s project team to deliver two robotic fulfilment centres for an Australian supermarket; resolved certification, fitness-for-purpose, delay, dangerous goods, fire safety, WHS and insurance disputes, achieving settlement at completion.
  • Advised the owner throughout contentious construction, operations establishment and ongoing contract management on a design-build-operate-maintain infrastructure project.
  • Payment claims / schedules and security of payment adjudications, including calling on security and coordinating with financiers.

Additional capacity - In-house teams and law firms

Problem

Workload spikes, holidays, families, leave teams stretched.  Some teams need a short-term specialist, who isn’t trying to advise from the outside.

Solution

Ehren is a specialist projects lawyer who can join an in-house, law firm or site team for a fixed-period.  Seamless setup, quick at getting up to speed, autonomous.

Experience

  • Full-time embedded project delivery lawyer on a two-site robotics rollout, working directly with the UK-based Group Commercial Director and Group General Counsel.
  • Transaction team legal lead through to Notice to Proceed and into contract management/operations for 30+ wind farm projects across Australia, NZ, Korea, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines and Vietnam.
  • Acted as project counsel through development, construction, operations for multiple BESS projects in Australia.
  • Full-time consultant senior legal counsel for an OEM negotiating equipment supply, installation, construction, and operations.
  • Fractional legal counsel for a national construction contractor, a multinational road tolling OEM, and a renewables developer.
  • Consultant to law firm construction and projects teams as special counsel in top tier, international and boutique law firms.

Publications

Coming in late 2026, a chapter on Strategic Contract Administration in a legal / project management textbook on incorporation of technology contracts into construction and infrastructure projects.