When: Thursday, October 17, 2024 - Thursday, October 24, 2024, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PMWhere: CCLS, 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3JB
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When: Thursday 17th and Thursday 24th October 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Where: Centre for Commercial Law Studies
Agenda:
Day 1
10:00am- 10:15 am: Welcome & Introductions by
10:15am-11:15 am: Introduction to Oil & Gas
11:15-11:30 am: Coffee
11:30am-12:45 pm: Upstream Oil & Gas regimes
12:45pm- 1:45pm: Lunch
1:45 pm-3:00 pm: Gas & LNG
3:15pm-4:30pm: Coffee
3:15pm-4:30pm: Introduction to Electricity
Finish at 4:30 pm.
Day 2:
10:00am - 11:15 am: Project Finance
11:15am -11:30 am: Coffee
11:30am -12:45pm: Introduction to Renewables
12:45pm - 1:4pm: Lunch
1:45 pm-3:00 pm: Climate Change & the Energy Transition
3:00pm-3:15pm: Coffee
3:15pm-4:30pm: Climate Change Disputes
Speakers:
Professor James Dallas- Executive Director, Energy & Climate Change Law Institute
Professor James Dallas joined Queen Mary University of London as Executive Director of the Energy & Climate Change Law Institute in 2014. James was a partner at Dentons and has more than 35 years of experience in energy and infrastructure during which he has worked for a wide range of clients across the world.
James has a BA and MA from Oxford University in Jurisprudence. He trained to be a solicitor with Herbert Smith Freehills. In his early career he joined an oil exploration company involving him in upstream transactions in many countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa.
James returned to private practice in 1984 with Denton Hall (now Dentons), a firm with a leading energy practice, where he was Chairman from 1996-2009.
He was also a non-executive director of AMEC plc from October 1999 to May 2007 and was Chairman of their Remuneration Committee for six years.
Norah Gallagher Academic Director, Energy & Climate Change Law InstituteFormer Jean Monnet Chair in Energy Law & Policy
Norah is the Academic Director of the Energy & Climate Change Law Institute at CCLS, Queen Mary. She is a public international lawyer who has specialised in international dispute resolution, in particular investment and energy disputes for over 20 years. She has worked at Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith and was Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law before moving to Singapore in 2010. Norah has advised on a wide range of issues on international commercial and investment cases and sits regularly as arbitrator. She started teaching at CCLS in 2002 on International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement while working at Herbert Smith. Norah now teaches international energy transactions, climate change, mining as well as investment and commercial arbitration both on the LLM in London and Paris. This draws on her experience in reviewing and interpreting contracts while sitting as arbitrator on energy related disputes.
Simon Tysoe
Simon is a partner in the Corporate Department of the London office and served as former Co-Chair of the firm’s Oil & Gas Industry Group. Simon specializes in transactions in the energy sector, and has extensive experience advising clients on a range of cross-border energy and natural resources transactions, including upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas M&A, joint ventures, restructuring, and project development.
David Tennant
David is a counsel in the Dentons' Projects Team.
He joined Dentons in 1995 and was a partner for over 20 years. He specialises in oil & gas matters and has wide experience of gas sales and transportation arrangements and LNG SPAs. He has worked in the UK, the Middle East, the CIS and throughout Africa. Currently he is working on a new LNG import project in Germany and on gas and LNG purchase arrangements for a central European gas and power utility.
Andrew Hart
Andrew is a Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in London. Andrew has extensive experience of advising development finance institutions and infrastructure funds on the equity and debt financing of projects in emerging markets.
He has advised on projects in the power, renewables, oil & gas, road, rail, airport, port and health sectors across a variety of African, European, Middle East, North America and Asian markets.
His recent experience includes advising a consortium of development finance institutions on the financing of a programme of 13 solar power projects in Egypt, which will form part of the Benban Solar Park. This transaction was awarded Global Multilateral Deal of the Year 2017 by Project Finance International, and MENA Infrastructure Programme Deal of the Year 2017 by IJ Global.
Jamie Munroe
Jamie Munro is a project finance lawyer based in London. He focuses on project finance transactions in the energy and transportation sectors. He has acted for sponsors, lenders and multilaterals in connection with financing various projects. He also has experience of a variety of other finance transactions, including shipping finance, carbon finance and corporate finance.
Jamie has previously spent four years on secondment in our Tokyo office and four months in the Beijing office. A native English speaker, Jamie speaks fluent German and French and has a working knowledge of Japanese.
Kai-Uwe Karl Global Chief Litigation Counsel GE Renewables
Mr. Karl attended the University of Tübingen and graduated with a J.D. degree in 1997. He then lectured civil, commercial and corporate law at the University of Tübingen, and subsequently clerked at the regional court of Stuttgart. He is a member of the Frankfurt bar and holds a PhD in commercial law from the University of Tübingen, Germany. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Karl was with the international law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton based in Brussels, where he represented clients in disputes before the European Courts, the European Commission, as well as national regulators. His practice included advising multinational companies and sovereign clients in international trade law, European competition and state aid law, as well as general EC law and commercial law. Mr. Karl joined General Electric's Oil & Gas business in 2008 in Florence, and was appointed Global Chief Litigation Counsel for GE Renewable Energy in 2016. He represents his division in disputes world-wide, including work in negotiations, mediation, arbitration and litigation. He also leads policy initiatives aimed at managing and reducing the risks of disputes.
Sudhanshu Swaroop KC 20 Essex
Sudhanshu practices arbitration, commercial and public international law. He has acted in leading and landmark cases across his areas of practice.
Sudhanshu’s commercial practice encompasses shipping, international trade, energy, natural resources, banking and insurance and sanctions. He has particular experience of group and tort claims against multinational corporations, having acted in several of the important English cases. His work often involves challenges to jurisdiction, enforcement and applications for freezing orders and other urgent relief. He also has significant experience of cases with a connection to India and is co-chair of the India Committee of the Commercial Bar Association.
His public international practice has included some of the leading cases of recent times, both in the English courts and in international courts and tribunals. His practice includes investment arbitration and related court proceedings, immunities, foreign act of state, law of the sea, international environmental law and human rights. He has acted for various states (including as lead counsel for the United Kingdom), for state officials, for corporations and for NGOs.
Drawing on his background in public international and commercial law, Sudhanshu has developed expertise in climate change. He has been acting in several of the major international test cases which have attracted worldwide media coverage. He has also lectured extensively on climate change law, both in relation to states and corporations.