‘Everybody wanted to be on that bus’: Baker Botts on its award-winning Saudi green hydrogen deal Alex Ryan Baker Botts walked away from this year’s Legal Business Awards with the trophy for energy/infrastructure team of the year, in…
‘The investment opportunity of a lifetime’: could a booming infrastructure sector offer firms a route into high-value transactional work? Alex Ryan According to Dealogic, 2023 saw the lowest Q1 global deal volume and value since 2012, with just 9,400 deals worth…
Sponsored briefing: Angola – getting back in the game Guest Blog Morais Leitão’s Claudia Santos Cruz on recent legal developments and the future of the Angolan oil industry in the wake…
Sponsored briefing: Disputes flare up in the oil and gas sector Guest Blog Navigant’s Mark Taylor on the pressures that oil prices exert on contracts in the sector We all know how the…
Dentons advises Total on $5bn Iranian oil deal in first long post-sanction contract Legal Business Dentons has taken the lead advising French oil and gas company Total in signing a £4bn ($5bn) contract with Iran’s…
Sponsored briefing: Offshore construction risks Guest Blog Navigant’s Tony Farrow describes how the particular risks of offshore oil and gas extraction present unique challenges for parties involved…
Client profile: Mark Cooper, Cadent Gas Tom Baker The general counsel and company secretary of the newly-formed gas company on the importance of saying ‘yes’ Within a month…
Rising Stars: Energy Legal Business Amos Carrington Head of legal SEVEN ENERGY Formerly of Herbert Smith Freehills in both London and Tokyo, the ten-year qualified…
Magic Circle duo land £2.2bn energy deal as antitrust concerns surface Legal Business Linklaters and Slaughter and May have taken lead roles as UK energy services giant Wood Group is to acquire its…
Latham continues City hiring spree with HSF energy head Balsdon Legal Business Latham & Watkins announced today (13 December) that it has hired Herbert Smith Freehills’s (HSF) global energy co-head John Balsdon,…
UK projects teams earn their stripes as MoD makes key changes to army deal Madeleine Farman Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and CMS Cameron McKenna reprised their advisory roles as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a £1.1bn…
Nuclear windfall: Slaughters gifted with £12m fees for Hinkley Point C Kathryn McCann Slaughter and May earned £12m in fees for its government work on the controversial £18bn Hinkley Point C project, it has…
King & Wood loses five-lawyer energy team to Squire Patton Boggs Legal Business King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has lost a five-lawyer team including global energy and infrastructure co-head Neil Upton to Squire…
Rolling on: Pinsents sole supplier deal with E.ON to run full term Kathryn McCann Energy giant E.ON has confirmed its five–year single-supplier mandate with Pinsent Masons will run its full course, with the energy…
Big month for renewables as Linklaters acts on offshore windfarms with combined worth £3.9bn Legal Business Linklaters has advised on the development and financing of the first two UK offshore wind projects to obtain financing under…
Energy boost: Norton Rose and A&O power £10bn Welsh nuclear joint venture Matthew Field Norton Rose Fulbright and Allen & Overy (A&O) have advised as Horizon Nuclear Power has announced its joint venture for…
A new triangle: Fieldfisher targets three key sectors in latest strategy Victoria Young Echoing its trademarked ‘virtuous triangle’ strategy of the past, Fieldfisher has picked three sectors to ‘turbocharge’ as it rolls out…
In-house: Crown Estate to review energy and commercial real estate panels Legal Business The Crown Estate is to launch a review of its external legal adviser panel following the departure of general counsel…
An appetite for renewables: Linklaters advises on £2.6bn Scottish wind farm Legal Business In the second renewables project Linklaters has finalised this month, the Magic Circle firm has advised on the construction and…
Running on empty – how to survive in the Middle East in the era of cheap oil Chris Crowe Oil price volatility is a fact of life in the Middle East. At below or around $40 a barrel, the…
