Offshore Wind Magazine, November 2026

Welcome to HFW’s Offshore Wind Magazine, designed to give people working in the offshore wind industry a concise and user friendly update on recent legal and contractual developments. It reflects the issues we perceive as important to the industry, such as new developments, industry practice and emerging markets.

In this edition:

• Tom Hutchison, Roxanne Langford-Collins and Henry Proto discuss some of the challenges of getting the risk allocation right in floating offshore wind projects.
• Ken Hickman and Ruergan Braganza give an overview of the offshore wind industry in Japan.
• Alexander Jullienne and James Stewart examine three key areas of risk allocation under the FIDIC Yellow Book 1999 and share insights from their recent secondments with offshore wind contractors.
• Erwan Robert and Stéphanie Schweitzer consider France’s AO10 tender and the impact of the EU’s new supply-chain resilience requirements..
• Andrew Ross and Richard Rowlatt discuss routes to recovering additional costs where cable installation works are carried out of sequence.
• Daniel Johnson and Arpan Gupta examine the management of claims and liability risks between unincorporated JV members on offshore wind projects.