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.
While 2020 proved to be a challenging year for offshore oil and gas markets, the same cannot be said about offshore renewables, which saw substantial growth. Offshore renewable projects achieved an estimated record project sanctioning of US$56bn, which, for the first time, represents a higher amount than offshore oil and gas.
On 10 June 2021, the German Parliament (Bundestag) adopted the Act on the Implementation of the Digitalisation Directive (Gesetz zur Umsetzung der Digitalisierungsrichtlinie, DiRUG) of the European Union, setting the framework for the online formation and registration of branches of new businesses in Germany.
Corporate and M&A Partners Daniel Saunders and Mark Tooke, in a feature article for Bunkerspot, discuss the increase in M&A, joint venture and direct investment activity in maritime technology from investors both within and outside of the maritime industry.
