HOW WE CAN HELP
We advise on all aspects of oil and gas projects, including finance, acquisitions and disposals, development, construction, regulation and operations. Our team’s mix of corporate, regulatory and project experience enables us to advise on a project’s entire lifecycle in all areas of this sector.
Our team has worked throughout the world, including in Australia, Asia, Africa and the United States. All our energy specialists have advisory and in-house legal experience. Consequently, they have a deep understanding of, and experience in, the legal requirements for oil and gas companies in all aspects of their business.
Our experience includes advising in relation to the development of greenfield projects, upstream asset sales and joint ventures, long term off-take agreements, equity and debt financing and commercial contracting.
We advise on all aspects of conventional and unconventional oil and gas transactions, from initial corporate or asset acquisitions, to exploration and through to the production and sale of oil, gas or LNG. We are accustomed to working closely with commercial, engineering and technical teams and advisors in the oil and gas industry.
Our services
- All aspects of M&A involving energy and resource assets, including public company takeovers and schemes, private acquisitions and disposals, due diligence and regulatory approvals (including Foreign Investment Review Board).
- Developing and negotiating energy legislation and regulation, liaising with government, regulators and other stakeholders and drafting agreements between project sponsors and government.
- Land access, native title and Aboriginal heritage issues affecting resource projects and negotiating with native title parties and other stakeholders.
- Developing and reviewing tenure solutions and approval programs for large and small-scale energy projects.
- Disputes and occupational health and safety regulations.
- Negotiation and documentation of farm-in agreements, joint operating agreements, sale and purchase agreements, option agreements, royalty agreements, production sharing agreements and compensation agreements.
- All aspects of project development, including engineering, procurement and construction contracts and off-take contracts.
- Infrastructure solutions for development projects including roads, airports, power, rail and port arrangements.
- Financing and hedging facilities.
On its new $420 million syndicated senior secured debt facilities.
On its secured interest in the Northern Endeavour FPSO.
On the implementation of the Gas Market Reform Group’s capacity trading reform package across Jemena’s entire gas transportation contractual platform.
On its participation in the North West Shelf LNG project in Western Australia (Australia’s largest LNG project).
On its $14.4 billion proposed acquisition of Santos Limited.
On its $1.585 billion acquisition of Lattice Energy, the conventional upstream oil and gas business, from Origin Energy.
On its $7.1 billion proposal to acquire Santos.
On the Australian aspects of its US$3.9 billion acquisition of ENGIE E&P International S.A.
On its US$195 million acquisition of the Montara oil field from PTTEP, debt financing and related equity capital raising.
