Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Womble Bond Dickinson is a dynamic transatlantic law firm providing a comprehensive legal service to clients across a wide range of industries and sectors. The firm has more than 420 partners and 1000 lawyers based across 29 US cities and eight UK cities, including Newcastle Teesside, Leeds, London and Edinburgh. The firm's reach also extends to Europe where it has strategic partnerships with other law firms in Germany and France.

In the fast moving, challenging and dynamic energy sector, Womble Bond Dickinson have the skills to support energy companies through offering practical and innovative solutions which enable their clients to meet their ambitions to achieve sustainable growth and success. The firm's work covers the full spectrum of upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas, the construction and service sector and all types of electricity generation projects, including renewables.

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Indicative examples of UK and international experience:

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• Chrysaor in its acquisition of a Shell North Sea oil and gas portfolio in a deal valued in excess of USD 3 billion;
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• Tekmar Energy on a range of supply arrangements to offshore renewables and oil & gas projects worldwide;
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• EQT on the sale of the Tampnet group, the owner and operator of the world's largest offshore fibre-backed communication infrastructure network, to 3i Infrastructure plc and ATP;
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• Survitec on the supply of life-saving equipment to a range of offshore energy projects;
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• The UK government on all legal aspects of its operation of a temporary management scheme for the Iranian Oil Company's North Sea assets;
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• Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore on helicopter supply arrangements;
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• Total E&P UK on a range of North Sea projects including Laggan-Tormore, the Shetland Gas Plant, the Shetland Islands Regional Gas Export System (SIRGES), Elgin-Franklin and St Fergus;
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• Bridon-Bekaert on the supply of rope solutions to offshore energy projects internationally;
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• Endeavour Energy UK on a spectrum of UK North Sea matters including activities in respect of Alba, Bacchus, Rochelle, Enoch, Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Renee/Rubie and Goldeneye – varying from operational matters to decommissioning and a carbon capture and storage project
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• Tampnet on the purchase of a North Sea communications network from BP;
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• Shell, on behalf of the Great Britain oil and gas industry, in applying successfully to the European Commission for exemption of the GB oil and gas industry from application of the EU procurement rules;
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• PX Group on its assumption of operator duties at the St Fergus terminal and related infrastructure following its acquisition by North Sea Midstream Partners from Total E&P UK;
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• Petrofac on a range of contractual issues including in respect of a Floating Production Storage and Offloading unit;
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• Schlumberger on a country review regulatory project in respect of oil and gas activities in Morocco;
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• Scottish Power Renewables on the use of an oil and gas joint venture model for a major offshore wind farm project (West of Duddon Sands Round 2 project);
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• Vattenfall, Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group and the Scottish European Green Energy Centre on the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre in Aberdeen Bay;
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• Numerous clients including e.g. Total E&P UK, Oil and Gas UK, Wood and Scottish Power on competition law compliance and on dawn raid guidance;
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• The Department of Energy and Climate Change on the terms of the \"Back-Stop PPA\" as part of the new Electricity Market Reform package. This agreement provides a guaranteed route to market as it allows renewable projects to have a guaranteed purchaser for the power they generate;
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• Ofgem on the latest stage of the evolution of the model for the development of offshore transmission assets connecting offshore renewables projects with the existing onshore network;
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• A number of developers on the introduction of the new Contracts for Difference support mechanism, including advising on eligibility, the terms of the contract and bidding strategies;
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• One of the \"Big 6\" suppliers on the changes needed to their long term PPAs following the introduction of Contracts for Difference;
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• A large number of developers on electricity trading, Government support mechanisms and grid connection issues relating to the development, financing and sale of onshore and offshore renewable generation projects;
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• A number of major electricity consumers on their power and gas supply arrangements, the installation of on-site generation assets and energy efficiency measures;
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• RWE Npower on the £200m disposal of two energy supply businesses to Telecom Plus and the associated commercial arrangements relating to that transaction;
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• A major retailer on the potential arrangements to become a white label energy supplier and the licensing and industry document complications of adopting that type of structure;
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• A number of developers, suppliers and consumers on the arrangements for the supply of electricity from on-site and off-site generation projects \"directly\" to the consumer; and
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• One of the \"Big 6\" generators on their core flexible supply agreements with key industrial and commercial customers.
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