Practice Areas & Industries: Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Dewey and LeBoeuf's International Energy Team brings wide-ranging, global experience to all aspects of its oil and gas practice. We advise governments, national oil and gas companies, major corporations, contractors and entrepreneurs on operational, organizational, regulatory, commercial and financing issues around the world.

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Our lawyers are fully versed in all types of transactions commonly encountered across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. These include asset trading; farm-ins/outs; swaps; oil refineries; gas processing plants; petrochemical plants; offshore and onshore licensing; liquefied natural gas (LNG) production, shipping, and regas; Production Sharing Agreements; concessions; oil and LNG tanker finance/chartering; bidding and study agreements; and oil and gas pipeline finance/development.

We also counsel on matters regarding joint operating agreements; pipeline transportation agreements; unitizations, allocation agreements; underground gas storage facilities; drilling contracts, including risk-type arrangements; regulatory aspects of pipeline ownership and operation; oilfield service contracts and ventures; rate and tariff matters; crude oil and products sales/trading; oil spill response; natural gas, associated gas, LNG sales; and international boundary disputes.

Our team is experienced in international corporate, commercial and finance matters in the oil and gas sector.

Dewey & LeBoeuf is consistently recognized as being among the top rank of law firms in the oil and gas sector. We were ranked the No. 1 law firm for energy mergers and acquisitions in Asia (mergermarket 2006); Band 1 in energy and natural resources in Russia (Chambers Global 2002-2007, and PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (formerly Global Counsel 3000 ), 2003-2007); Band 1 in this category for Kazakhstan (Chambers Global 2005-2007); Band 1 New York energy transactional and regulatory firm and No. 3 Washington, DC energy - oil and gas and electricity firm (Chambers USA Guide to Law Firms 2005 - and similar high rankings in these categories, Chambers Global 2006); No. 2 North American legal advisor for project finance by region and No. 2 power legal advisor by sector (Infrastructure Journal , 2006); Band 2 for projects and energy and general business law in Africa (Chambers Global 2006-2007); and Band 3  for energy & natural resources in the UK (Chambers Global 2006 and 2007).