Energy Disputes
Shepherd and Wedderburn is deeply embedded in the energy sector, and has been for decades. We use all that expertise and understanding when helping businesses to resolve commercial energy disputes.


Across our firm, over 120 lawyers in 18 legal disciplines work for commercial clients in the energy sector. So when our disputes specialists are acting for those clients, they can call on an exceptional range of specific experience and insight. That gives them – and our clients – a real advantage.

We try to find commercial and practical solutions without resorting to litigation, and are skilled in alternative methods such as mediation. But when required we have all the necessary skills and expertise to represent our clients in court, arbitration and expert determination.

Our experience includes:

  • Construction disputes: offshore and onshore windfarms, power stations, waste-to-energy plants, solar farms, battery energy storage systems, grid and distribution network infrastructure
  • Oil and Gas disputes: joint operating agreements, concession agreements, LOGIC and BIMCO contracts
  • Corporate electricity contract disputes: Power Purchase Agreements, Contracts for Difference, and energy supply contracts for businesses
  • Energy Code disputes: Balancing and Settlement Code, Connection and Use of System Code, Grid Code, Independent Gas Transporters Uniform Network Code, and Uniform Network Code

Meet our key contacts

David Anderson

Partner and Head of Property and Infrastructure Disputes


Contact by email

+44 (0)131 473 5102

+44 (0)787 665 8914

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Colin Archibald

Partner

Nathaniel Buckingham

Partner

Jonathan Carey

Solicitor

Gordon Downie

Consultant

Iain Drummond

Partner and Head of Commercial Disputes and Regulation

Leonore Dupont

Director

Alec Fair

Associate

Gabriella Gilmour

Senior Solicitor

Stephanie Hepburn

Partner

Leigh Herd

Partner

Ben Pilbrow

Partner

Francis Reynolds

Senior Associate

Kenzie Sharkey

Senior Associate

Claire Wheatman

Associate

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Related articles and insights: Energy Disputes

30 March 2020

COVID-19: Should I negotiate via video-link?

Contributor: Leonore Dupont

Should you negotiate with counterparts when working remotely as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic? Leonore Dupont details best practice for doing so and the potential pitfalls to avoid.

3 May 2019

Negotiations: Why do we avoid uncertainty?

Contributor: Leonore Dupont

Most of us know that it is important to understand our own motivations in any negotiation-type setting, but how many of you are aware of the natural cognitive biases that we are all prone to? And how these biases can influence both your decision-making processes and those of other people with whom you interact?

5 March 2019

Negotiations: Why do we hate to lose?

Contributor: Leonore Dupont

Negotiating is a part of life. Whether it’s a two year old toddler trying to ‘negotiate’ her way out of eating those vegetables at dinner, a tourist haggling in a bazaar, a salesperson trying to seal the deal or a business executive attending a mediation to resolve a dispute, it permeates every aspect of our lives. Everyone needs to negotiate for something at some point, be it when asking for a salary raise or trying to clinch a multi-million pound buy-out contract. But how effective a negotiator are you?

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David Anderson

Partner and Head of Property and Infrastructure Disputes


Contact by email

+44 (0)131 473 5102

+44 (0)787 665 8914

Connect on LinkedIn

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