This practice area focuses on providing legal advisory services to clients within the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors relating to licensing, regulatory and country – entry issues, local content compliance; reserve-based lending; project finance including financing for marginal fields and securitization of receivables; advisory on Oil & Gas contracts and transactions including Joint Operating Agreements, Production Sharing Contracts and Technical Services Agreements, Liquefied Natural Gas Projects; acquisition finance; assets disposals; farm in, farm out and joint venture arrangements; abandonment, remediation and other environmental matters; pipeline and turnkey projects; infrastructure projects including PPPs; the Marginal Oil Fields Program, domestic gas supply and pricing policy and regulations; negotiating, drafting and structuring petroleum industry contracts and arrangements. We are able to provide industry expertise, assist with transaction structuring and regulatory compliance; and advise on a broad spectrum of power projects and transactions and related arbitration and litigation.
MAJOR TRANSACTIONS
- Acted as transaction solicitor and due diligence adviser to RODEO Resources and Grynberg Petroleum Company, United states based Corporations, on the exploration, exploitation, development and marketing of the onshore Logbaba natural gas/condensate field project in Cameroon
- Advised a consortium of foreign and Cameroonian infrastructure companies that bidded for the privatization of a power company in Cameroon.
- Advised a host of indigenous exploration and production companies on the legal validity of farm out agreements, joint operation agreements, technical services agreements, extension of the farm out agreement, as well as compliance with the petroleum laws of Cameroon and other related laws.
- Advised prospective foreign investors directly and in some cases through their International Counsel and other foreign investment partners on the acquisition and financing of marginal oil and gas fields in Cameroon.
