Milbank LLP Singapore-based partner James Orme has been recognized as a 2026 Legal 500 Asia Pacific Green Ambassador. Legal 500 Green Ambassadors are lawyers who lead client work that supports decarbonization and the green transition, demonstrating a green focus in their sustainability engagements.
“James Orme is an expert regarding the green and sustainability-linked financing of renewable energy and digital infrastructure assets,” reports Legal 500. “In the data center space, Orme acted for the finance parties in the $1.44 billion financing of Adani ConneX’s portfolio of hyperscale data centers to be constructed in Pune and Hyderabad in India. The financing, notable for being among the largest sustainability-linked financings in India, promotes energy efficiency and renewable power consumption in the data center space.”
In an interview with Legal 500 regarding the article “Decarbonisation, Data, and DEI – Legal 500’s Asia Pacific Green Ambassadors look ahead to 2026,” Mr. Orme discussed key trends within the digital infrastructure space in 2025 and how the sustainability landscape is expected to develop in the year ahead, with developers looking to create cleaner and less carbon-intensive projects. Click here to read the full article.
A partner in Milbank’s Global Projects, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group, Mr. Orme advises clients on the financing and development of complex, large-scale energy and infrastructure projects, many of which involve multi-sourced financing arrangements and multiple tiers of debt. Mr. Orme has demonstrated unmatched credentials in this evolving field. His work has not only advanced clean energy and ESG goals within individual deals but has contributed to systemic change across legal, financial, and regulatory ecosystems. His experience involves several award-winning sustainability linked financing projects which were recognized by various industry publications including Yondr Group’s US$900 million financing of a 98MW data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. The project is the first phase of a 72.5-acre data center campus that will deliver up to 340 megawatts of critical IT capacity when fully complete, making it one of the largest and most technologically advanced data centers in Asia Pacific. The hyperscale data-center campus will also be certified by the Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies green building program, which is IFC's green building certification system focused on making buildings more resource efficient. This transaction was named “Digital Infrastructure Deal of the Year, APAC” by IJGlobal Asia Pacific Awards 2024, and “Project Finance Deal of the Year” by IFLR’s Asia-Pacific Awards 2025. Another similar transaction is AdaniConneX's US$1.5 billion financing for the development of up to five data centers in India. The financing is India’s largest sustainability-linked financing which provide for margin adjustments when certain key performance Indicators are achieved, such as the Power Usage Effectiveness of the data centers, the use of renewable electricity, and safety goals. This transaction was named “Sustainability Linked Loan of the Year, APAC” by IJGlobal Asia Pacific Awards 2024.
Read Mr. Orme’s 2026 Legal 500 Asia Pacific Green Ambassador profile.
