Find Lawyers in London, United Kingdom for Energy and Natural Resources Law
Practice Area Overview
The development of energy projects is becoming increasingly complex, multijurisdictional in scope, and often involves multi-year, multi-billion dollar financings. The term “Energy Law” typically covers the full spectrum of energy sectors, including electricity generation and transmission, oil and gas, pipelines, liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, renewable energy, and of increasing importance, environment and climate change.
Energy Law litigators’ expertise focuses on several major energy sectors:
- Oil & Gas: upstream (sometimes referred to as the exploration and production (E&P) sector, which includes searching for oil and gas and subsequently drilling wells to bring the oil/gas to the surface), midstream (involving the transportation, storage, and wholesale marketing of crude oil), downstream (the refining and processing of crude oil and natural gas) and oilfield service activities (namely, the provision of services to the E&P industry);
- Power/electricity;
- Renewable energy (wind, hydro, solar, biomass); and
- Climate change.
Clients in the energy industry include oil & gas E&P companies, oilfield service companies, independent power producers, public utilities, manufacturers, project developers, hedge funds, commodity traders, lenders, landowners and local stakeholders, and governments/governmental bodies.
Global energy projects and transactions require skilled expertise in a full range of legal services including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), commercial law, environmental law, utilities regulation, review and advice on ownership structures, real estate and construction, infrastructure and public-private partnerships (PPP), debt and project finance, regulatory (including stock exchange rules for listing, de-listing, and ongoing compliance), energy trading, project siting and permitting, tax, Aboriginal/local stakeholder consultation and business arrangements, and dispute resolution. A large energy project will involve clients and their counterparties, plus each of their lawyers, accountants, tax advisors, financiers and other advisors, potentially across numerous jurisdictions, time zones, and language and cultural borders, so a key part of any transaction is facilitating the relationship between all these parties to achieve a smooth completion.
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David Birchall advises clients on the full range of energy transactions in the mid- and downstream fields, including types of commodity trading matters, conventional, renewables and clean-tech projects, energy and infrastructure projects, regulation and waste, including waste-to-energy schemes. Having practised as an energy corporate, regulatory and projects lawyer since 1993, he also worked from the start of the renewables and physical commodities trading legal market, in the UK, throughout ...
Mitasha Chandok is an experienced corporate associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Oil and Gas, Energy and Infrastructure, Power and Renewables, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Private Equity practice groups and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practice. Mitasha’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project development and financing, and corporate advisory work. She routinely advises client...
Vincent Zabielski focuses on international nuclear energy matters, including providing strategic advice related to new-build EPC contracts, power purchase agreements, operation and maintenance, fuel supply chain, liability issues, and export controls. Prior to joining Pillsbury, Vincent was Senior Nuclear Counsel for the UAE nuclear new build program, where he was responsible for integration of nuclear licensing strategy with the largest-ever public financing of a public works project. During...
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