Energy

Overview


At A&T, we have a flexible legal service that is responsive to our clients’ demands, which enable them to protect their commercial and legal interests, safely navigate within the sector, manage and mitigate risks as well as dominate the industry. Our Energy Practice delivers the combined legal experience of a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers together with an in-depth understanding of the commercial and technical aspects of the energy industry to bring transactions, regulatory proceedings, and disputes to successful completion.

Working with A&T enables our clients to strengthen their businesses and simplify the complicated demands of regulatory issues since we are well aware of numerous legal frameworks for resolving disputes. Our target-oriented approach is able to assist our clients in efficiently changing the shape of energy industry and increasing the sectorial opportunities.

We have comprehensive industry knowledge of the existing local and regulatory framework, we do understand both the traditional principles and evolving trends that apply to established and emerging energy industry participants, which allows us to help our clients stay in front of (rather than just reacting to) the changes, small and large, that face the industry. It is therefore true to say that the inevitable consequence of dynamic mechanism of A&T is to facilitate efficient workflow of its clients by constantly bringing together the new structures and legal expertise.

In order to meet the changing needs of our clients, we continuously monitor, scrutinise and identify the sectorial policies prudently. We also have various international contacts for the energy industry around the world, which enables us to assist our clients in solving legal disputes with our balance of international collaborations.  

Our Clients

We advise and act for a broad range of clients across the industry, including: commercial lend owners, commercial and development banks, construction and fabrication companies and yards, contractors, drillers, governments, international financial organisations, investors, new technology companies, nuclear companies, oil and gas companies, project sponsors, purchasers, refinery and terminal operators, suppliers, wind turbine manufacturers and wind farm and solar park developers across the full range of issues that apply to the sector. 

What we do in Energy

We cover all aspects of Energy sector, including:

Oil and Gas

  • Advising on all aspects of oil and gas matters and projects
  • Distribution and sale 
  • Production 
  • Processing 
  • Refining and storage facilities
  • Trading 
  • Transmission 
  • Advising on corporate governance for oil and gas companies
  • Crude oil and gas sales 
  • Dispute resolution: litigation and arbitration in the oil and gas industry 
  • Drilling service issues
  • Floating production storage and offloading (FPSOs) 
  • Flotation 
  • LNG projects and LNG sales
  • Oil and gas company share and asset issues and takeovers 
  • Oil and gas storage projects
  • Pipeline constructions

Power and renewables 

  • Advising, drafting and negotiation for all sector related contracts
  • Equipment - purchase agreements
  • Fuel supply agreements
  • Heat and electricity energy supply agreements 
  • Power supply agreements 
  • Anaerobic digestion facilities
  • Associated marine environmental issues 
  • Biomass energy and projects
  • Corporate and contractual structures for investment in solar systems
  • Dispute resolution, including: arbitration, litigation (e.g. patent, marine environment, etc) 
  • Environmental enforcement action and permitting 
  • Feed in Tariff
  • Grid connections
  • On/off shore wind farms and facilities
  • Solar commercial property installations 
  • Land acquisitions for renewable projects 
  • Planning for renewable projects 
  • Renewables obligations certificates

Water 

  • Ultrafiltration membranes
  • Financing schemes for water and wastewater infrastructures
  • Ancillary services contracts
  • Wastewater reuse
  • Water cycle projects 
  • Water production 

Thermal Power 
 
  • Advising, drafting and negotiation for all thermal power contracts
  • Acquisition and privatisation
  • Developments
  • Financing
  • Private thermal power projects 

Nuclear 

  • Advising, drafting and negotiation for all thermal power contracts
  • Acquisition and privatisation
  • Developments
  • Financing

Electricity 

  • Advising, drafting and negotiation for all thermal power contracts
  • Transmission and generation developments
  • Governments and regulatory issues