Supply security and sustainability – Energy, Oil & Gas

Energy, Oil & Gas

Lawy­ers from A/L/M Part­ners have repre­sen­ted govern­ments and pri­va­te com­pa­nies in a wide ran­ge of ener­gy dis­pu­tes, e.g. in inter­na­tio­nal arbi­tra­ti­on pro­cee­dings con­cer­ning the ter­mi­na­ti­on of oil and gas pro­duc­tion con­tracts and the lega­li­ty of cer­tain amend­ments to gas con­ces­si­ons. We also have in-depth expe­ri­ence in the manage­ment and reso­lu­ti­on of major dome­stic and inter­na­tio­nal dis­pu­tes in the are­as of power plant con­s­truc­tion, off-shore and on-shore wind power, and solar ener­gy. Our expe­ri­ence fur­ther extends to gas pri­ce disputes. 

Relevant matters include:

Repre­sen­ting a wind tur­bi­ne manu­fac­tu­rer in seve­ral court pro­cee­dings against the ope­ra­tor of wind farms in con­nec­tion with alle­ged war­ran­ty claims and com­plex sup­p­ly and main­ten­an­ce contracts

Repre­sen­ting a lea­ding inter­na­tio­nal rene­wa­ble ener­gy con­glo­me­ra­te in a com­plex and high-volu­me out-of-court dis­pu­te with the owner and ope­ra­tor of a Euro­pean off­shore wind farm

Repre­sen­ting a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te against a for­eign inves­tor in an inter­na­tio­nal SCC arbi­tra­ti­on based on the Ener­gy Char­ter Trea­ty in con­nec­tion with the refu­sal of the envi­ron­men­tal per­mit for a gas-fired power plant pro­ject and the project’s fail­ure to pass the envi­ron­men­tal impact assess­ment (EIA)

Repre­sen­ting the Minis­try of Ener­gy of a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te, the Natio­nal Agen­cy for Natu­ral Resour­ces, and the sta­te-owned oil com­pa­ny in an inter­na­tio­nal ICC arbi­tra­ti­on under Swiss law against an inves­tor regis­tered in the Cayman Islands in con­nec­tion with the ter­mi­na­ti­on of petro­le­um sha­ring agreements

Repre­sen­ting the sta­te-owned oil com­pa­ny of a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean coun­try in UNCITRAL arbi­tra­ti­on pro­cee­dings sea­ted in Switz­er­land against an insol­ven­cy admi­nis­tra­tor of an oil com­pa­ny and its liti­ga­ti­on fun­der fol­lo­wing the ter­mi­na­ti­on of petro­le­um sha­ring agree­ments for breach of con­tract and envi­ron­men­tal law

Repre­sen­ting a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te against an oil and gas inves­tor in an UNCITRAL arbi­tra­ti­on con­cer­ning, inter alia, ille­ga­li­ty, mining- and con­ces­si­on laws

Repre­sen­ting a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te-owned elec­tri­ci­ty grid pro­vi­der against a com­pa­ny regis­tered in Switz­er­land in an inter­na­tio­nal SCIA arbi­tra­ti­on under Swiss law in con­nec­tion with elec­tri­ci­ty sup­p­ly contracts

Stra­te­gic and legal advice to an inter­na­tio­nal wind tur­bi­ne manu­fac­tu­rer on the ques­ti­on whe­ther and to what ext­ent the impact of the COVID-19 pan­de­mic and rising mate­ri­al pri­ces jus­ti­fy a right to ren­ego­tia­te con­tracts for the con­s­truc­tion of wind tur­bi­nes under Ger­man law

Repre­sen­ting an inter­na­tio­nal manu­fac­tu­rer of wind tur­bi­nes in a dis­pu­te befo­re a Ger­man civil court with a wind farm ope­ra­tor clai­ming dama­ges for loss of pro­fit due to miss­ing or delay­ed ser­vices under a main­ten­an­ce contract

Repre­sen­ting an inter­na­tio­nal group of com­pa­nies from the power plant con­s­truc­tion sec­tor in a lar­ge-volu­me ICC arbi­tra­ti­on based in Vien­na and advi­sing on com­pli­ance law issues in con­nec­tion with the con­s­truc­tion of a power plant in Eas­tern Europe