Oil and Gas

Our key experience includes advising:

on commercial contracts including offtake and supply contracts, trading arrangements, derivative transactions and emissions trading.

First Reserve Corporation on the recommended cash acquisition of CHC Helicopter Corporation for approximately Canadian $3.7 billion. We are also advising First Reserve Corporation on the recommended offer by Turbo Alpha Limited (a newly incorporated company formed at the direction of a fund advised by First Reserve) for Abbot Group plc.

on a large number of LNG projects across the world, including MLNG1, MLNG2, Woodside, OLNG, QLNG, Qatargas, QG4, ELNG 1 and 2.

a major oil and gas company on an investment into upstream gas fields and associated downstream infrastructure.

on petrochemical and refinery transactions including the Qatar/Shell GTL project, EMethanex, the Rayong Refinery and the Bapco Refinery.

on various pipeline transactions, including the UK Interconnector, the IPI project and the acquisition by Star Capital Partners of TotalFinaElf Pipelines.

Reliance Industries, the largest private sector company in India, on its acquisition of a majority stake in, and management control of, Gulf Africa Petroleum Corporation ("GAPCO"), a group with a significant presence in East Africa in the downstream petroleum retail sector.

the Republic of Kazakhstan on the upstream Tengiz oil and gas field development on the North East shore of the Caspian Sea.

Shell Resources, a unit of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, on its £3.5 billion (US$5 billion) recommended cash tender offer to acquire Enterprise Oil. We also advised on the restructuring of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies to unify them under a single parent company.

on upstream developments and investments, farm-ins and reserve based lending in Africa, the Middle East and Russia.