Contrary to popular belief, Energy & Resources is not a market space dominated solely by the larger firms. There are an increasing number of specialist E&R Partners leaving their top-tier environments and making the move to very nimble specialist Energy & Resources practices.
Here at Law Staff we act for the range of private law firms in this space as well as some prominent energy and resources companies with in-house legal teams, guiding their clients/organisation’s interests in:
- Renewable Energy – Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Hydrogen, Tidal, etc;
- Coal;
- Gas - Coal Seam Gas (CSG), Biomass, Liquid Natural Gas (LNG);
- Petroleum;
- Minerals; and
- Utilities.
The raft of issues can be holistically across resource exploration, production, processing, trading, haulage/shipping, to sale, including:
- mergers and acquisitions in the energy and resources sector;
- drafting of exploration and production joint ventures;
- farm-in/farm-out agreements;
- native title, environmental, land access and planning matters;
- commodity sales contracts including iron ore, precious metals, gas and power sales, haulage and swap agreements;
- LNG project development and power generation projects;
- regulatory advice including advising on the National Electricity Rules and the Wholesale Electricity Market Rules;
- power, gas and emissions markets advice, including market participation, market rules, hedging arrangements, trading documentation and financial services licensing;
- third party access agreements for electricity and gas networks;
- drilling contracts and oilfield services agreements;
- pipeline corridor acquisition;
- project financing;
- construction and or procurement contracts for brownfield and greenfield development; as well as
- price review negotiations and arbitrations.
Your primary contacts for this market segment are Craig Ashton-Sward or Bianca Calder.