Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance have taken the lead roles on the stock market listing of Vivo Energy. Vivo provides energy across Africa, running nearly 2,000 Shell-branded service stations. Freshfields won the top role for the company, with a team led by London partners Julian Makin and Sam Newhouse. The pair are co-heads of […]
Shearman & Sterling has opened its second Texas office, bringing in six partners to Houston in a strategic bid to bolster its oil and gas transactions and projects work. Senior partner David Beveridge has been keen to cultivate Shearman’s corporate presence in the US since he took the role at at the beginning of March. […]
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Presidential Legislative Decree 6/18, of 18 May 2018 (“PLD 6/18”) enacted the Marginal Fields Decree. Broadly speaking, Marginal Discovery is the discovery of one or more deposits which cannot be economically exploited under the current regulatory/fiscal and market conditions. The following are indicators that a deposit is marginal…
The current Serbian privatisation framework was established in August 2014 through the adoption of a new privatisation law (“Privatisation Law”) and subsequent introduction of all relevant secondary legislation. Although the phase of the mandatory privatisation of the socalled socially-owned companies (which comprised a special feature of the preprivatisation system in Serbia) was finalised on 31 […]
Walker Morris’ Town and Village Green experts Andrew Beck and Erin Keating explain a recent case in which the Court of Appeal has re-examined, and provided further clarification on, the use of the statutory incompatibility argument as tool to defeat a Town or Village Green (TVG) application. In July 2016 Walker Morris reported on the decision of Lancashire […]
In a recent unreported decision, the Courts gave some helpful guidance on the interpretation of the Environmental Offences Sentencing Guidelines (EOSG). The case concerned a discharge of sodium hydroxide solution into a river. As a result, around 30,000 fish were killed and the pollution negatively impacted the invertebrate community down the river for a distance […]
The Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (hereinafter: ‘the Minister’) submitted a letter (in Dutch only) to Parliament on 30 May 2018 on the safety (risks) of natural gas production from the ‘small fields’ in the Netherlands in relation to the energy transition. In this letter, the Minister also announced his intention to change the current […]
Ukraine’s State Service on Geology and Mineral Resources (“Derzhgeonadra”) has announced on its website plans to auction the rights to 40 new oil and gas fields. Specifically, the announcement relates to: (i) 22 promising offshore areas located on the shelf of the Black Sea or Azov Sea; (ii) the Chernytska Oil and Gas Field and […]
On 19 May 2018 the Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (hereinafter: ‘the Minister’) published its draft bill (in Dutch only) on the Prohibition of the use of coal by power producers for public consultation (hereinafter: ‘the draft bill’). The basis of the draft bill derives from international (the Paris Agreement in 2015) and national (the […]
Presidential Legislative Decree 7/18, of 18 May 2018 (“PLD 7/18”) enacted the Angola Natural Gas Framework Law, which lays down the legal and tax principles applicable to the activities of prospecting, exploration, appraisal, development, production and sale of natural gas in Angola…
By Shaimerden Chikanayev So far, the largest wind and solar projects developed in Kazakhstan (eg the Yereymentau wind farm in north-central Kazakhstan and the Burnoye solar power plant in southern Kazakhstan) have been financed by Kazakh state companies and international development banks. One may argue that as long as commercial lenders and investors (ie lenders and institutional […]
On 6 March 2017, in New York, delegations of both countries signed, before the United Nations’ Secretary-General and Portugal’s former Prime-Minister, António Guterres, the “Treaty Between the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and Australia Establishing Their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea”. The new maritime boundaries between the two countries represent, after almost 50 years, Australian’s […]
Lithium minerals have seen a rise in demand and price since 2011, which became even greater in 2016, and the expectation is that this rise will continue along with the growing demand for electric vehicles. Lithium supply security has become a top priority for technology companies in the United States and Asia and, worldwide, lithium […]
Presidential Decree no. 86/18 was published on 2 April. This Presidential Decree approves the Rules and Procedures for Tenders to Acquire the status of Associate of the National Concessionaire and for Procurement of Goods and Services in the Petroleum Sector. Like Decree no. 48/06 of 1 September, which is now repealed, this new piece of […]
