Contrary to popular belief, Energy & Resources is not a market space dominated solely by the larger firms. There are an increasing number of specialist E&R Partners leaving their top-tier environments and making the move to very nimble specialist Energy & Resources practices.
Here at Law Staff we act for the range of private law firms in this space as well as some prominent energy and resources companies with in-house legal teams, guiding their clients/organisation’s interests in:
- renewable energy – solar, wind, geothermal, hydrogen, tidal, etc
- coal
- gas - coal seam gas (csg), biomass, liquid natural gas (lng)
- petroleum
- minerals; and
- utilities
The raft of issues can be holistically across resource exploration, production, processing, trading, haulage/shipping, to sale, including:
- mergers and acquisitions in the energy and resources sector
- drafting of exploration and production joint ventures
- farm-in/farm-out agreements
- native title, environmental, land access and planning matters
- commodity sales contracts including iron ore, precious metals, gas and power sales, haulage and swap agreements
- lng project development and power generation projects
- regulatory advice including advising on the national electricity rules and the wholesale electricity market rules
- power, gas and emissions markets advice, including market participation, market rules, hedging arrangements, trading documentation and - financial services licensing
- third party access agreements for electricity and gas networks
- drilling contracts and oilfield services agreements
- pipeline corridor acquisition
- project financing
- construction and or procurement contracts for brownfield and greenfield development; and
- price review negotiations and arbitrations
