Our LNG experts across the world deliver a seamless and consistent service to companies trading in this international marketplace.
In our role as legal advisers to the whole maritime sector, we’ve seen the LNG market evolve from traditional point-to-point trade to full integration with the entire upstream, midstream and downstream supply chain. As the LNG sector has matured, we have acquired a thorough understanding of its global interdependencies, interactions and business drivers.
Drawing on this unrivalled experience, we provide commercial, market-savvy advice to industry participants and financiers active in LNG liquefaction, LNG trade and transportation and regasification. We advise on finance, project development, sale and purchase, shipbuilding and commercial contracts, leases and charters, corporate, tax, employmentand competition/regulatory law, as well as dispute resolution.
In the final part of a two-part series of articles, we examine the international legal and regulatory framework and the significant ESG risks that deep-sea mining has the potential to create.
In part one of a two-part series of articles, we examine why we may need to look at deep-sea mining and what is required to make it happen in practical terms.
As of 1 January 2020, shipowners and lessors may apply an exceptional tax depreciation when acquiring equipment using decarbonised energy for the main or auxiliary propulsion of a vessel.