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Practices

  • We advise on the full spectrum of corporate and commercial matters:

    • Mergers, acquisitions and disposals, including share and asset transactions
    • Joint ventures, strategic alliances and investment structures
    • Shareholders’ agreements and bespoke governance arrangements
    • Corporate reorganisations, group restructurings and business separations
    • Minority and majority investments
    • Commercial contracts and contract management
    • Supply, procurement and distribution agreements
    • Manufacturing, services and outsourcing agreements
    • Agency, franchise and other commercial cooperation arrangements
    • Terms and conditions, framework agreements and standard documentation
    • Cross-border commercial transactions and contract negotiations

  • We advise lenders, borrowers, investors and sponsors on a broad range of financing transactions:

    • Acquisition finance
    • Leveraged finance
    • Project finance
    • Real estate finance
    • Asset-based lending
    • Syndicated lending
    • Structured finance
    • Refinancing and loan restructurings
    • Security packages and intercreditor arrangements
    • Guarantees, indemnities and other credit support arrangements

  • We advise on international regulations and sanctions that affect cross-border movement of goods, capital and services, including:

    • Sanctions compliance and exposure analysis (U.S., EU, UK etc.)
    • Trade restrictions, export controls and regulatory clearances
    • Impact of sanctions and other regulatory constraints on contractual obligations

  • We represent clients in contentious and pre-contentious matters, with a focus on strategy and risk management:

    • International arbitration and cross-border litigation
    • Pre-dispute assessments and conflict prevention planning
    • Management of multi-jurisdictional disputes
    • Interim relief and asset protection measures
    • Settlement structuring and negotiated outcomes

  • We support energy projects throughout their lifecycle:

    • Project structuring and regulatory analysis
    • Production sharing, joint operating and off-take agreements
    • Transfers of participating interests and project restructurings
    • Project-related financing and security arrangements
    • Operational and contractual matters at exploration and production phases
    • Disputes and claims arising out of energy projects

  • We handle:

    • Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), and management (EPCM), front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for large-scale projects
    • Contractor claims, change orders, extensions of time, bonds and letters of credit
    • Project disruptions by insolvency, sanctions, export controls and force majeure events
    • Technology and process licenses, design packages, guarantees
    • Terminations, defects and pricing disputes