Principaux dossiers

• Advising TAP AG, the company implementing the Trans Adriatic Pipeline project, which encompasses the development, construction and financing of a 10 bcm gas pipeline commencing at the border between Turkey and Greece, crossing northern Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea, and ending in Italy.
  
• Advised the financiers of Swala Oil & Gas (Tanzania) plc’s acquisition of up to 40% of the shares in PAE PanAfrican Energy Corporation from Orca Exploration Group, for a cash and share consideration of up to $130m.
  
• Advising the project company on all aspects of the Turkmenistan to Pakistan, Afghanistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, including all government, construction, gas transportation and financing matters.
  
• Advising Eland Oil and Gas on the amendment of a $35m facility to $75m and on converting it from a term loan to a reserve based facility.
  
• Advising the United Nations’ Office of the Quartet on the structuring of the Gas for Gaza project.
  

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• Advised both Kuwait Petroleum International (in its capacity as an investor in the project company) and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (in its capacities as a supplier of feedstock and offtaker of the refined products and in relation to certain financing matters) on the Duqm Refinery in Oman.
  
• Acted for OMV on its acquisition of Shell’s upstream business in New Zealand.
  
• Advised EnQuest PLC regarding a financing agreement for $175m with funds managed by Oz Management.
  
• Advised Merlon International LLC in relation to the agreement to sell its subsidiary company Merlon Petroleum El Fayum Company, which owns oil and gas assets in Egypt.
  
• Advising Brookfield on commercial arrangements relating to the acquisition of the East-West Pipeline in India from Reliance Industries Limited.
  

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• Representing Steelhead LNG, the leading Canada-based energy and natural resources company focused on LNG project development in British Columbia.
  

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• Advised Engie on the sale of its portfolio of upstream LNG assets to Total for $2bn.
  
• Advised Soco International plc on its class 1 acquisition of Merlon Petroleum.
  
• Acting alongside the firm’s Paris office to assist a diverse lender group of international financial institutions (FIs), export credit agencies (ECAs) and commercial lenders with the financing of an 878km-long natural gas pipeline, valued at approximately €5.4bn.
  
• Defending a consortium of international oil companies in an ICC arbitration under English law against allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of contract in connection with the sale of an oil mining licence in Africa.
  
• Advising the sponsors in relation to the financing of a 400MW greenfield power and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) project that will be built near the Tema Oil Refinery in Ghana.
  

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• Advising BP on its acquisition of the entire share capital of Chargemaster plc, the UK’s leading operator of electric vehicle charging networks.
  
• Appointed to act for Taqa on the acquisition of additional interests in the Atrush field in Kurdistan from Marathon Oil, which was structured as a joint bid with ShaMaran Petroleum, a Canadian oil and gas operator.
  
• Advised Noreco on the English law elements of its transformational deal to purchase Shell’s upstream oil and gas business in Denmark.
  
• Represented Neptune E&P UK Ltd in a High Court dispute concerning the £1.5bn Cygnus Project, which provides approximately 6% of the gas consumed in the UK.
  
• Representing Taqa in a dispute with Amec concerning the Cladhan Field in the North Sea.
  

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• Advised Centrica Storage Limited on its entry into a construction and tie-in agreement and a processing and operating services agreement for the tie-in of the Tolmount field to the Easington terminal and for the terminal to be used as the host facility for Tolmount gas.
  
• Advised Noble Energy on pipeline solution for Leviathan and Tamar gas exports to Egypt.
  
• Advised Hurricane Energy Plc on the farm-out of 50% of its interests in the Lincoln and Warwick assets to Spirit Energy Limited.
  
• Advising Wintershall Holding GmbH on its acquisition of a 10% stake in the Ghasha concession, located offshore Abu Dhabi.
  
• Advising Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas company Pertamina on its first joint venture agreement with Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil company, to jointly develop the new Tuban refining and petrochemical complex in East Java.
  

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• Advised BP on a multibillion-dollar inter-conditional UK-Alaska transaction between the client and ConocoPhillips.
  
• Advising Woodside Energy and its joint venture partners in relation to the development and project financing of the SNE Project, located offshore Senegal.
  
• Advised Lloyds Bank and Santander as lenders on the £358m hybrid project and leverage financing facilities to finance Antin Infrastructure’s contribution towards the construction and operation of infrastructure at the Tolmount gasfield in the North Sea.
  
• Advising Natixis, Bank of Montreal and Deutsche Bank (as mandated lead arrangers) on an acquisition senior secured reserve based financing to Norwegian Energy ASA Company (Noreco) on Noreco’s acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital of Shell Olie-og Gasudvinding Danmark B.V.
  
• Advised BTG Pactual E&P B.V. on the sale of African oil and gas joint venture company Petrobras Oil & Gas BV, and advised POGBV on a $755m upsizing of its now $2bn reserve-based lending facility secured over offshore oil and gas assets in Nigeria.
  

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• Represented the borrowers and sponsors in the project financing for the development and construction of the Penco Lirquén LNG terminal connected to the regional gas transmission system and the Central El Campesino power plant, located in the Biobío region of Chile.
  
• Acted for the sponsors (including ENH, the national oil and gas company) in respect of the financing of an integrated upstream and midstream gas and LNG project in Mozambique.
  
• Acted as international co-counsel for Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services company, in its tripartite agreement with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and First Exploration & Production to develop the Anyala and Madu fields, offshore Nigeria.
  
• Representing NNPC with respect to the financing of a 614km gas pipeline project development from Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano.
  
• Representing Royal Dutch Shell Plc and The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd in two sets of group actions brought in the English High Court on behalf of thousands of residents of the Bille and Ogale communities in the Niger Delta.
  

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• Advising lenders on multiple financings for over $2.5bn in connection with the Southern Gas Corridor project.
  
• Acted for Petrofac on the sale of a 49% interest in the company’s operations in Mexico, including Santuario, Megallanes and Arenque, to Perenco.
  
• Represented Shell in a $183m Commercial Court dispute between Go Science Limited (in liquidation) and multiple defendants based in the Netherlands, all of which are Shell entities.
  
• Advised INA-Industrija nafte, d.d. on the front-end engineering design for the residue upgrade project at its Rijeka refinery in Urinj, Croatia.
  
• Advising Baltic Connector Oy on all the English law aspects of the Balticconnector, a bi-directional natural gas pipeline project which will connect the Estonian and Finnish gas grids.
  

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• Advising Coastline Exploration on a significant project to explore for oil and gas offshore Somalia.
  
• Advising Perella Weinberg UK Partners LLP in connection with the restructuring of Kuwark Energy PLC.
  
• Representing SDX Energy in connection with its proposed acquisition to purchase upstream oil and gas assets from BP in Egypt.
  
• Advising the ad hoc bondholder group in relation to the restructuring of the Seadrill Group, a NYSE and Oslo Børs listed offshore drilling contractor with a $17bn capital structure.
  
• Acting for Tatneft, Russia’s fifth biggest oil company, in $380m English litigation proceedings against four Ukrainian oligarchs.
  

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• Advised Shell’s New Energies division on its agreements to acquire 100% of sonnen, the German battery manufacturer and leader in smart energy storage systems for households.
  
• Advised Inter Pipeline Ltd and its European storage subsidiary, Inter Terminals Ltd, on the acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital of NuStar Energy’s European bulk liquid storage business for cash consideration of $270m on a debt-free/cash-free basis.
  
• Acting as part of a cross-border team to represent the Kazakh national gas operator, KazTransGas (KTG), in its dispute with the government of Georgia concerning the appointment of a special receiver over KTG’s Georgian subsidiary.
  

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• Collaborated with the Houston office to assist Cheiron Petroleum Group with its first upstream debt transaction for an independent oil and gas company in the newly deregulated Mexican market.
  
• Advised Neptune Energy in connection with the debt financing aspects of the $3.9bn acquisition of a majority stake inEngie E&P International.
  
• Advising Sumitomo Mitsui Corporation Europe Limited and the lead arranger and documentation bank for the syndicate of lenders on a reserve-based facility to Trident Energy.
  
• Advised Eni on the sale of a 10% interest in the upstream petroleum concession in Egypt containing the super-giant Zohr gas field.
  
• Advising Savannah with respect to the restructuring of the commercial arrangements with the current operator, Frontier Limited, and the PE investment of a South Africa-based infrastructure fund, in relation to both the upstream and midstream businesses at the Uquo Marginal Field.
  

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• Representing PetroSaudi in various claims now amounting to close to $2bn.
  
• Advising Savannah Petroleum on the acquisition of several upstream and midstream oil and gas assets in Nigeria from Seven Energy International Limited.
  
• Acting for OMV in connection with the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, which holds a 49% interest in the Cercina-Cercina Sud, El Ain-Gremda, El Hajeb-Guebiba and Rhemoura concessions located onshore and offshore in Tunisia.
  
• Advising global shipping company CMA CGM on a contract for the use and supply of marine LNG as the propulsion fuel for nine new container ships.
  
• Representing Ghana National Petroleum Corporation in connection with changes in circumstances and renegotiations of terms regarding the development of natural gas discoveries in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) contract area.
  

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• Advising the Area 4 consortium (led by ExxonMobil and Eni as operators) on the development of the Rovuma LNG project, which will produce, liquefy and sell natural gas from the gas fields of the Area 4 block offshore Mozambique, and its related long-term sale of LNG.
  
• Advised LetterOne Holdings S.A. on all legal aspects of the $21bn merger of its oil and gas subsidiary DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG with Wintershall Holding GmbH to form a leading independent oil and gas company headquartered in Western Europe.
  
• Advised Essar Oil (UK) Limited on the acquisition and inventory financing of the Kingsbury and Northampton Terminals and the stock of oil products held within them.
  
• Advising Rosneft on its concession with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to operate the main oil export pipeline in Kurdistan and in relation to the award of five production-sharing contracts in the Kurdistan Region and oil prepayment agreements.
  
• Advised Macquarie and Swisslife on the €591.2m refinancing of Società Gasdotti Italia S.p.A., comprising bank facilities and the European Investment Bank (EIB) debt.
  

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• Advised HSBC Bank Plc as ECA arranger, SACE and the commercial banks with respect to a $500m SACE-covered loan made available to Reliance Industries Limited for its expansion of the $15bn Jamnagar Refinery in India, the largest refinery complex in the world.
  
• Advising the lenders in the restructuring of the Damietta LNG project.
  
• Advising Delek Drilling and Noble Energy on the acquisition of an existing pipeline and on key shareholder, gas transportation and other commercial and operational arrangements in connection with the monetisation of the Leviathan and Tamar gas fields offshore Israel through domestic gas and potentially LNG export sales.
  
• Advising the ECAs and commercial bank lenders on the $4bn financing of the SNE deepwater oilfield located within the Senegalese portion of the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea Bissau Basin.
  
• Advising the sponsors on all aspects of the project development and financing of a natural gas hub and power project located at the Port of Açu, Brazil.
  

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• Advising Mutual Energy on a £250m infrastructure project to bring natural gas to western counties of Northern Ireland.
  
• Advising Oriental Energy on the fallout from the $1.5bn collapse of Afren Plc.
  
• Acting for Ithaca Energy as part of a cross-office team in relation to the acquisition of the Greater Stella Area oil and gas licences and associated infrastructure interests of Dyas UK Limited and Petrofac Limited.
  
• Acted for the consortium of oil and gas companies which constructed the CATS Pipeline (the CATS parties) in a complex contractual dispute against Teeside Gas Transportation Limited.
  

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• Advising SACE and the SACE lenders on the financing for the modernisation and expansion of the Middle East Oil Refinery in Egypt.
  
• Advising Golar LNG Limited on the development of the Fortuna floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project to be developed by Golar with its partners Ophir Energy and GEPetrol (the national oil company of Equatorial Guinea).
  
• Acting as lenders’ international legal counsel on the financing of the West Nile Delta Project in offshore Egypt.
  
• Acting as legal adviser to Bapco on all aspects of the $6bn Bapco Modernisation Programme in Bahrain.
  
• Represented a syndicate of banks in connection with the offering of senior secured bonds due 2029 and 2047 by Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline LLC.
  

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• Advising the lenders in connection with the project financing of a bulk liquids terminal for the import and storage of gasoil, LPG and LNG, and berthing of two floating storage and regasification units at Sokhna Port, Egypt.
  
• Continuing to advise BEH, the Bulgarian state gas company, on a variety of matters including on the proposed development of the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) international pipeline and on BEH’s participation in the Alexandroupolis LNG project in Greece.
  
• Acted for BP on the sale of a multiple occupancy chemicals site in the UK.
  

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• Advised PetroVida Holding B.V. on all aspects of its acquisition of a 50% equity interest in Petrobras Oil and Gas B.V. from Petrobras International Braspetro B.V. for $1.407bn.
  
• Advised Equinor in connection with its acquisition of a 25% interest in the offshore Roncador field, one of Brazil’s largest producing oil fields, from Petrobras.
  
• Advising SOCAR GPC on its proposed development and financing of a gas processing plant and petrochemicals facility in Azerbaijan.
  
• Providing ongoing advice to STAR Rafineri, a subsidiary of SOCAR Turkey Energy AS, on the expansion of the SOCAR Turkey Aegean Refinery (STAR).
  
• Representing Saipem in its ICC claim against a Gazprom entity over a terminated contract to build the South Stream gas pipeline between Russia and southern Europe.
  

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• Advised INA (a Croatian multinational oil company) and MOL Group (the parent company of INA) on the purchase of the entire issued share capital of Eni Croatia b.v. from Eni.
  
• Advised Jadestone Energy on its institutional placing and admission to trading on AIM.
  
• Advised SDX Energy on the proposed placing and readmission of an enlarged share capital to trading on AIM.
  
• Advising longstanding client Halite on its onshore gas storage project in Lancashire, including in relation to equity and debt investment into the project.
  
• Advised joint bookrunners Peel Hunt, finnCap and GMP First Energy in relation to Independent Oil & Gas PLC’s conditional placing.
  

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• Acted for and assisted Shell in its sale of Shell Exploration and Production Oman and its 17% participating interest in the Mukhaizna field in Oman to Indian Oil Corporation.
  
• Representing NIOC as respondent in one of the world’s largest oil and gas arbitrations in relation to the supply of Iranian gas to the UAE under a long-term gas sales agreement.
  

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• Advising nominated adviser Smith & Williamson and joint brokers Mirabaud Securities and Stifel on the acquisition of US oil and gas assets by Diversified Gas & Oil plc and placing to raise $250m on AIM.
  
• Acted for AIM- listed Echo Energy plc on a subscription and placing, raising £8.5m before expenses.
  
• Advised AIM- listed Cabot Energy plc on a subscription, placing and open offer raising $16.5m together with the acquisition of the remaining 25% of Cabot’s producing oil assets in north west Alberta, Canada.
  
• Acted for AIM- listed oil and gas company San Leon Energy on an £11m secured convertible loan from major shareholder Toscafund Asset Management LLP.
  
• Acted as English legal advisers for JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production in respect of $1.95bn tender offer launched by the company for its GDRs and shares, valuing the company at $5.6bn, and its de-listing from the Official List of the London Stock Exchange and the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.
  

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• Advising a drilling contractor on a substantial dispute relating to a long-term drilling contract with Tullow Ghana Limited for the “West Leo” semi-submersible drilling unit.
  
• Acted for a drilling contractor in relation to the sale of the Stena Clyde.
  
• Acted for a prominent operator in relation to its ongoing LNG carrier fleet expansion, which saw an order of ten vessels in total over the past 12 months from two Korean yards.
  
• Advised TMS Cardiff Gas Ltd throughout 2018 in relation to its bids on a number of public tenders (to EDP, Jera, Gazprom, Pavillion Energy, Cheniere and Shell) for the long-term chartering of LNG tonnage.
  
• Acted for Stena Drilling Limited and more recently also Stena Spey Drilling Limited, being the manager and owner respectively of a semi-submersible drilling rig, the “Stena Spey”, in a dispute with a contractor, CKT Projects Limited (now in liquidation and formerly Hertel Technical Services Limited).
  

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• Advised longstanding client Golar LNG Limited on the $960m sale and leaseback of its FLNG vessel, the Hilli Episeyo, with CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping Company Limited.
  
• Acting for Pacific Drilling, a former New York Stock Exchange-listed company focused on deepwater oil drilling, in a highly contentious case concerning the construction of a drilling unit called the Pacific Zonda.
  
• Advised Heerema Hartlepool on a large energy construction dispute relating to topside modules for the Cygnus gas field, one of the largest gas field developments in the southern North Sea.
  
• Acted alongside the Dubai office to advise NYSE-listed Tidewater Inc. on certain due diligence aspects of its $1.25bn merger with NYSE-listed GulfMark Offshore, Inc.
  
• Advised Celsius Tankers in relation to two new-build contracts with Samsung Heavy Industries for the construction of two LNG carriers (with an option for further vessels), each with a value of $187m.
  

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• Advised Cluff Natural Resources Plc, an AIM-quoted natural resources investing company with a high-impact exploration and appraisal portfolio focused on the Southern North Sea gas basin, on a subscription to raise £750,000 and a subsequent placing and subscription to raise a further £2m.
  
• Acted for finnCap Ltd and Cenkos Securities plc, as placing agent on the placing and open offer by Guernsey-based Chariot Oil & Gas Limited, which engages in the oil and gas exploration business along with its subsidiaries.
  
• Advising Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, as nominated adviser and broker to Wentworth Resources, on the re-domiciliation of Wentworth Resources, which involved its transformation from a company registered in Alberta, Canada, to one registered in Jersey, Channel Islands; changes to management; and the de-listing of the company from the Oslo Børs.
  
• Advised leading independent oil and gas company Faroe Petroleum on its defence of a hostile takeover offer by DNO ASA.
  
• Advising Corinth Pipeworks SA in relation to two major international projects, the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline and the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline.
  

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• Advised Baker Hughes, a GE company, on its agreement to acquire 5% of the shares in ADNOC Drilling for an initial consideration of $550m.
  
• Represented Sierra Oil & Gas in the execution of an agreement that will result in Sierra’s business being integrated with Deutsche Erdoel AG, an international independent exploration and production company headquartered in Germany.
  
• Advised Transocean Ltd, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors, on its deal to acquire Songa Offshoreat, at a value of $3.4bn.
  
• Representing oil majors Shell and Chevron in an ICC arbitration against the Republic of the Philippines.
  
• Successfully represented oil giant Reliance in a $1.7bn UNCITRAL case relating to a production-sharing contract with the Indian government.
  

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• Advising Tullow Ghana on arrangements for the $200m-plus sale and subsequent transportation of associated and non-associated gas from a number of offshore fields in Ghana.
  
• Advised Seacrest Capital, as the majority shareholder of Norwegian E&P company OKEA AS, in connection with OKEA’s $526m acquisition of Royal Dutch Shell’s interests in the Draugenand Gjøa fields offshore Norway.
  
• Acting for Storengy in matters associated with its Stublach underground gas storage facility, including the development of physical storage services contract terms and gas transfer arrangements relating to product repurchase agreements.
  
• Advising Axpo Trading on multiple LNG purchase and sale arrangements, gas sales agreements and LNG charter parties.
  
• Representing Vedanta and Marubeni in their 14-year dispute with the government of India over the allocation of profits from the Ravva oil and gas field, offshore India.
  

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• Advised Maersk Oil on the energy, antitrust, compliance and competition law aspects of its acquisition by Total SA.
  
• Advising Ensco on its proposed combination with Rowan Companies plc pursuant to which Ensco will acquire Rowan in an all-stock transaction to be effected by way of a UK court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement.
  
• Acting for Buckeye Partners, L.P. on the English law aspects in relation to the sale of its 50% equity interest in VTTI BV to IFM Investors and Vitol for $975m as part of its strategic review.
  
• Advising on the formation of Spirit Energy, a joint venture in the oil and gas exploration and production sector between Centrica (69%) and the owner of Bayerngas Norge AS, Stadtwerke München GmBH (31%), Munich’s municipal utilities company.
  
• Advising BHP Billiton Petroleum Great Britain Limited on the disposal of its interests in the Bruce and Keith North Sea oil and gas fields and associated infrastructure to Serica Energy (UK) Limited.
  

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• Represented PDVSA in series of disputes concerning a drilling contract between PDVSA, a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela, the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, and an offshore services contractor in Venezuela.
  
• Defended NNPC against numerous attempts by IPCO (Nigeria) Limited to enforce a Nigerian arbitration award in England.
  
• Acted for SUEK on a $1bn pre-export financing from a lending syndicate.
  

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• Advising a syndicate of banks regarding a $180m reserve-based senior facility agreement made to Energean to develop the Prinos Basin offshore Greece.
  
• Advised Coro Energy Plc on its potential cash and shares bid for Ophir Energy Plc, valuing Ophir at approximately £462m.
  
• Advised Aban Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of India’s Aban Offshore, on its acquisition, via its wholly owned subsidiary Caldera Petroleum, of a 100% interest in two oil and gas blocks in the UK North Sea for a non-cash consideration of $75m.
  
• Advised independent Namibian oil and gas explorer Azinam on its divestment to ExxonMobil Namibia, an affiliate of ExxonMobil Corporation, of a 30% stake in Petroleum Exploration Licence 44 in offshore Namibia.
  
• Acting for PTT Public Company Limited, the Thai state-owned SET-listed oil and gas company, in a multimillion-dollar dispute in respect of claims and counterclaims arising out of the failed design, supply and implementation of an integrated Commodities Trading Risk Management system procured from a major US-based global IT systems and software supplier.
  

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• Advising Electrogas Malta on all aspects of the groundbreaking Delimara 4 LNG-to-power project.
  
• Acting for Energy Capital Vietnam in a $4bn LNG-fuelled power plant in Bac Lieu, Vietnam.
  

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• Advised Serica Energy on its acquisition of BP, Total, BHP and Marubeni’s interests in the Bruce and Keith fields, and the Rhum field from BP.
  
• Advising Cuadrilla on a wide range of oil and gas and associated issues relating to its onshore shale gas operations, including the development work for Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site.
  
• Advised Barking Power Limited on the contracts to convert a large gas-fired power plant in East London on behalf of Barking Power Ltd.
  
• Advised Third Energy Holdings Limited on the sale of subsidiary company Third Energy Offshore Limited to Anglo-Dutch Hague and London Oil plc (HALO).
  
• Advised Countrywide Farmers in relation to the sale of its LPG distribution business to Flogas.
  

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• Advised SGN on the £250m Gas to the West project, which is delivering gas to 40,000 homes in the west of Northern Ireland.
  

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• Worked with Milieu as the key EU legal adviser to prepare a report for the European Commission to analyse the laws of EU member states and key energy exporting countries concerning foreign ownership of energy infrastructure – the European Commission’s flagship project.
  
• Ana Stanic was invited to give evidence to the to the European Economic and Social Committee on 8th March 2018 on the implications of the European Commission’s proposal to amend the gas directive to address concerns over Nord Stream 2.
  

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• Advised TSX and NASDAQ-listed TransGlobe Energy Corporation, an independent international oil and gas company with exploration and production operations in Egypt and Canada, on its introduction to AIM.
  
• Handled the standard listing of PennPetro Energy plc, an oil and gas company with assets in Texas.
  
• Advised AIM-listed Caspian Sunrise plc on the acquisition of Kazakh company 3A Best Group JSC, for a consideration of $24m to be satisfied in shares.
  
• Advised Cenkos Securities on two placings for £9.22m and £5.56m, both in the UK and Australia, for 88 Energy Limited.
  
• Advised AIM-listed Sirius Petroleum plc on its re-admission to AIM as an operating company and $21.5m fundraising.
  

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• Advised Applegreen Plc in connection with its acquisition of a 50.01% majority stake in Welcome Break and the admission of its enlarged share capital to trading on AIM.
  
• Advised United Oil & Gas on its admission to AIM.
  
• Advised Victoria Oil & Gas on its ongoing fundraising of £13.57m.
  
• Advised Columbus Energy Resources in connection with its acquisition of Steeldrum Oil Company Inc and entry into a new short-term convertible security facility.
  

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• Advising Eland Oil & Gas on various commercial contract negotiations, including transfer of the operatorship for licence area OML 40, local joint venture arrangements and its 2018 share buy-back programme.
  
• Advising Velocys regarding an equity fundraising to fund ongoing operations, in particular the company’s bio-refinery operations in the US and UK.
  
• Advising Salamander Solutions on the acquisition of MC AAA Limited, a leading UK-based designer and manufacturer of heater cables for use in the oil and gas industry.
  
• Representing the company voluntary arrangement (CVA) supervisors in the ongoing implementation of the complex CVA of a North Sea oil and gas development and production company, Alpha Petroleum Resources Limited.
  

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• Advised Columbus Energy Resources Plc on its secondary fundraising.
  
• Advised Tlou Energy Ltd in its £1.4m (A$2.5m) raise and potential further fundraising.
  
• Acted for Chariot on its recent strategic placing and open offer, which raised approximately $17.5m.
  

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• Successfully represented Barra in establishing that it was entitled under Brazilian law to exercise its forfeiture rights under an AIPN Model Form JOA without paying compensation.
  

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• Acting for Aminex plc in its up-to-$40m farm-out of a 50% interest in the Ruvuma PSA, Tanzania.
  
• Acting for SOCO plc on the sale of its upstream Angolan interests to Quill Trading Corporation and WMLC Resources.
  
• Acting for Celtique on its divestment of a 30% interest in the Wressle oil field, onshore UK.
  
• Acting for HSBC on amendments to Ineos’ borrowing base facility, following its acquisition of the Forties Pipeline.
  
• Acting as external general counsel to Cairn, leading its negotiations and strategy in connection with the Indian tax authorities’ attempts to use retrospective legislation to levy tax in respect of the 2007 IPO of Cairn India and subsequent dividends.
  

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• Acted for DDI and four other co-defendants in a High Court claim brought by Gazprom Export LLC.
  
• Advising Ineos on planning and property matters relating to the development of wells for the production of shale gas in England.
  

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• Acted for Ocean Rig UDW Inc and DryShips Inc in successfully defending claims from a former agent, Hamylton Padilha of HPOR, in connection with long-term drilling contracts for two deepwater drilling rigs with Petrobras.
  
• Acting for Naftogaz of Ukraine against Gazprom in the English enforcement proceedings of one of the largest arbitration awards ever handed down ($2.6bn) and the highest value freezing injunction in the UK court.
  
• Advised Exmar on its agreements with YPF for the long-term employment of the Caribbean FLNG unit (renamed Tango FLNG) at Bahia Blanca in Argentina.
  
• Advising BW on one of the leading gas-to-power projects at Port Acu in São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.