Energy

LAWYERS ADVISING ON ALL ASPECTS OF ENERGY AND RESOURCES Our team of transactional and dispute resolution lawyers have expertise at every stage of the energy chain, from exploration and production, storage and transportation, LNG, refining, trading and sale of oil and gas, to electricity generation, energy management. We also have expertise in renewables and carbon trading. In the oil and gas industry, we advise governments, regulators, national and international oil companies, service contractors, utilities, investors, financiers and insurers. We call upon specialists from across our firm, including those with expertise in the offshore oil and gas industry and have an emergency response team who are experienced in advising on all aspects of any casualties or disasters that may occur. As true industry specialists, many of whom having experience of working in industry, our lawyers build long-term relationships with our clients in the sector. We offer those clients consistent teams of lawyers able to provide creative insights into how to solve their problems, based on our history of working for the client and our detailed knowledge of the industry. What we do The HFW energy team is partner-led, with a high level of involvement of those partners and other senior lawyers in the work entrusted to us. Our lawyers regularly work with the client's own experts and consultants in multi-disciplinary teams, so that the client benefits from advice which takes into account the full risk profile of its activities. Our teamwork with the client and its in-house legal experts enables us to give clear, practical and, importantly, commercially focussed advice on areas where we have legal specialists, knowledgeable about the industry and ready to advise: M&A (including public and private) and equity investments IPOs and capital market transactions Joint ventures Infrastructure/projects Trading (physical/financial/carbon) Dispute resolution Insurance and reinsurance