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The Oil & Gas Team provides tailored assistance throughout all stages of implementation of oil and gas projects in Africa. It advises oil and gas companies to structure, secure and implement acquisitions and disposals of and subsequently manage oil and gas assets in Africa:
M&A and Due Diligence Review
Our Oil & Gas Team provides legal advice in the course of sale and purchase transactions of oil and gas assets in Africa in order to confirm inter alia the validity and the extent of legal rights in and titles to oil and gas assets and subsequently to draft and negotiate the necessary contractual documentation, such as sale and purchase contracts and joint venture agreements. In this context, the Team has already carried out significant cross-jurisdiction due diligence reviews on transactions in Africa.
E&P Contracts and Awards
Our Team provides legal advice in the course of the drafting and negotiation of oil and gas exploration and production contracts, such as concession agreements and production sharing contracts and the award of the related exploration and exploitation permits and titles.
Ancillary Contracts
Our Oil & Gas Team also provides legal advice in the course of the drafting and negotiation of all contracts ancillary to E&P contracts, such as joint venture agreements, joint operating agreements, shareholders agreements as well as engineering, procurement and construction contracts, operation and maintenance contracts and lifting contracts. The Team has been involved in major integrated projects for the development of oil and gas assets in Africa.
Legal Restructuring
The Team provides legal advice in the context of the review and improvement of the legal structure of oil and gas companies. It had the opportunity to manage significant restructuring operations in Europe and on the African territory. We provide first-tier international expertise and have great capacity for innovation in the context of complex optimisation without detriment to the requisite compliance with local laws.
Institutional and Regulatory Reforms
We regularly provide legal advice to governments in the context of institutional or regulatory reforms. In particular, the Team assists governments in reviewing and/or drafting oil and gas laws and regulations as well as concession and/or production sharing model agreements in order to encourage development of oil and gas projects in Africa.
Project Financing and Security
The Team advises governments, international financial institutions, banks as well as oil and gas companies on all oil and gas financing and security issues. It has a diversified experience in the field of financial structuring and offers customised solutions, adapted to the needs of its clients and the specifics of local oil and gas security laws and regulations. We have developed specialist expertise in reserve based lending.
International Dispute Resolution
Through interdisciplinarity, and understanding of oil and gas laws, the Team assists clients in preventing disputes but also managing disputes. In this context, the Oil & Gas Team advises its clients at all stages from prevention to pre-litigation and litigation proceedings and is involved in the drafting of arbitration agreements, strategic decision-making, and representation of clients during arbitral proceedings, as well as proceedings before state jurisdictions related to arbitral proceeding.
Contacts
François Krotoff (Paris/London)
Nicolas Bonnefoy (London)
Leïla Hubeaut (Paris)
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- the Oil & Gas in Africa: 
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