Sectors - Energy & Natural Resources

The energy and natural resources sector plays a uniquely important role in global efforts to balance economic growth, environmental sustainability and social cohesion. 

Our Energy & Natural Resources lawyers are at the forefront of this sector and have an enviable reputation for successfully advising leading organisations within the sector on a wide variety of complex and innovative transactions.

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s dedicated team is drawn from experts across the firm with the specialist skills and practical experience necessary to take projects from initial feasibility through to completion. The team has experience in the energy and natural resources sector and a proven track record of advising clients on matters relating to energy markets and networks, renewables, oil and gas (upstream and downstream), water, waste and mining.

Our specialist team of lawyers regularly work with leading industry players, regulators, trade bodies, local authorities, developers and funders in all aspects of energy and natural resources projects, identifying industry risks and issues, analysing the implications for our clients and turning those insights into real added value.

All Energy 2018

Our clean energy team will be on hand to provide legal and commercial updates, meet clients and contacts and share our market-leading expertise at this year's All Energy conference on May 2-3 in Glasgow.

Join us at one of our speaker sessions listed on our microsite or at Stand D18 for specialist legal and commercial insights into the trends affecting offshore wind development, sustainable cities, energy efficiency and marine renewables, as well as the impact of disruptive technologies and the evolving role of funded litigation in the clean energy sector.

Watch our video

The EU Referendum - What's next for the energy sector

In a joint webinar, experts from Shepherd and Wedderburn and PwC came together to discuss the far reaching implications of Brexit for the energy sector.

Click here to watch

They are not just corporate legal advisers: they have a deep understanding of the oil and gas industry and what we in Cairn are looking to achieve strategically. They put forward achievable, common sense solutions which always meet our aims.

Jann Brown, Managing Director and CFO
Cairn Energy plc

Key People

Experience

Albion Water
On its Competition Act action against Dwr Cymru (Welsh Water) before the Competition Appeal Tribunal in relation to bulk supply of water and more recently on its follow on damages claims against Dwr Cymru
Bowleven plc
On its $500 million strategic alliance with Petrofac in respect of the Etinde Permit, offshore Cameroon
Cairn Energy plc
On the $6.3 billion global offering of securities by Cairn India and admission of Cairn India to Bombay and National Stock Exchanges
DONG Energy and ScottishPower Renewables
On their 389MW West of Duddon Sands JV, dealing with the Crown Estate lease and all onshore cabling and substation landowner agreement
Lloyds TSB
And the consortium of lenders on the £340 million financing of Centrica plc's Boreas portfolio of onshore and offshore windfarms
Single Electricity Market Committee
As sole legal advisers to the SEM Committee (established between the Commission for Energy Regulation and Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation) on various aspects of their work in regulating the electricity wholesale market on the island of Ireland
SMartWind Limited
On the development of 4GW of power in Round 3 Zone off Hornsea, one of the UK's biggest Round 3 offshore wind zones, including property advice, consenting advice in relation to the Planning Act and marine consenting regimes and grid regulation advice on securing connection capacity from National Grid
Viridor Waste Management Limited
In two recent planning inquiries for waste proposals including successfully obtaining permission for a £200 million energy from waste facility at Dunbar

Clients

Articles

  • 17.Apr.2018 Some breathing space for employers of EU workers?

    In a recent announcement, the government has confirmed its intention to operate a post-Brexit grace period of up to two years, during which time EEA nationals can continue to live and work in the UK.

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  • 27.Feb.2018 HSE enforcement: More notices and more appeals?

    On 8 February 2018, the Supreme Court gave its judgment in an appeal by Her Majesty’s Inspector of Health and Safety against Chevron North Sea Limited. The appeal concerned a legal argument around enforcement notices served under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and, more importantly, what information can subsequently be considered by the Employment Tribunal when determining any appeal against an improvement or prohibition notice.

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  • 20.Feb.2018 New regime for the contractual rights of Third Parties in Scotland

    Third party rights are conferred by contracting parties on a person who is not a party to the contract concerned. Such rights have long been recognised as capable of being created in Scots Law under the general or common law, known as jus quaesitum tertio, but the rules are poorly understood, and generally regarded as long overdue for reform. The Scottish Law Commission recommended the creation of an updated statutory regime for third party rights, to replace the common law rules. The outcome of the review is the Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Act 2017, which will come into force on 26 February 2018.

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