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Oil & Gas Experience
- Acted as special MI counsel in connection with the secondary offering of common units by Teekay LNG Partners L.P. We also acted as special MI counsel in connection with the initial public offering of StealthGas
- Advising First Olsen group in relation to the restructuring/reflagging and refinancing of their FPSO/FSO/MOPU fleet. This deal won the ‘Asset & Corporate Finance Deal of the Year’ award from Asian Legal Business
- Acting for BP on the sale of a group of companies holding exploration and production assets in the Middle East
- Advising the seller on the sale of an interest in a Russian oil & gas exploration licence to Emerald Energy plc (listed on the Official List) for £18m to be satisfied by shares in Emerald
- Advising Jose de Mello SGPS S.A. on the US$415m sale of its shipping business, Soponata, to General Maritime Corporation
- Advising Oceaneering International Inc (listed on the NYSE) on its US$48.4m acquisition of Stolt Offshores’s drill support ROV (remotely operated vehicle) businesses in Norway, Brazil and Angola
- Advising Nord LB in relation to the financing of power generation facilities at the Caythorpe onshore gas field in Yorkshire, UK
- Acting for Bluewater in the negotiation and documentation of their US$850m secured revolving credit facility involving lead arranger ING, Bluewater and six major oil companies. The firm has represented Bluewater since 1994, and this credit facility is the culmination of a series of complex structured debt, lease and bond financings which Bluewater has successfully implemented to expand its floating production and other core business over that period
- Advising DVB Bank AG in a $15,000,000 newbuilding delivery financing in respect of a platform supply vessel being constructed in Brazil for UP Offshore Apoio Maritimo Ltda., a Brazilian company controlled by Ultrapetrol of Argentina. This is the first of four such vessels being built in Brazil for the Ultrapetrol group
- Advising Global Natural Energy plc on changes in its gas supply arrangements for its Corona Energy gas retail distribution business and related shareholder agreements
- Advising KBC Advanced Technologies plc on the transfer to it and licensing by it of intellectual property rights in HYSYS.Refinery
- Advising Puma Energy on various joint ventures to build, own and operate oil storage facilities together with supporting throughput arrangements and related financing in Paraguay, Honduras and Brazil
Steven Burkill, Bangkok
John Imhof, New York
Chris Lowe, Singapore
Nigel Moss, Paris
Eugenio Tranchino, Rome
Michael Wachtel, London
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