Energy and Utilities - Page 16

Climate change an issue for politicians not the courts says California judge as industry group claims lawsuit is 'baseless.' | 8yrs

A court has ruled in favour of China Oilfield Services, finding Statoil's termination of drilling contract was unlawful. | 8yrs

Exxon is appealing against dismissal of case in which the oil giant claims federal investigation is retaliation on oil giant's climate change views. | 8yrs

Gazprom is attempting to settle a long running antitrust investigation by the European Commission, the Russian energy giant said this week. | 10yrs

A Bain & Co management consultancy report has recommended to Ashurst that it focus on growing areas, including finance and infrastructure, as it develops globally. | 10yrs

Legal work for mining lawyers is the most likely area to be hit in Australia by the falls in international stock exchanges and the economic problems coming from China, according to local lawyers. | 10yrs

Allen & Overy and Squire Patton Boggs are two of the firms to fall off the panel at the National Grid, leaving space for new entrants including Herbert Smith Freehills and Addleshaw Goddard. | 10yrs

According to an analysis conducted with Leopard Solutions' Firmscape, 11 firms opened one or more new offices in Texas in the past year, with six in Dallas, three in Houston and two in Austin. | 10yrs

Announcing its opening in Mexico City, the international firm says it is solidifying 'its position as a market leader in connection with Mexico's energy reform'. | 10yrs

Hopes to clean up the notoriously corrupt and mismanaged sector are lying with a Harvard-trained lawyer and former Exxon executive, who was appointed this month as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. | 10yrs

A programme of government privatisations is fuelling a boom in infrastructure work and M&A activity in New South Wales - a boom which could last a decade, according to Norton Rose Fulbright. | 10yrs

Chadbourne & Parke has increased its 100-lawyer global energy team by the recruitment of two partners from DLA Piper in the last month - Ben Donovan in June and Ursula Owczarkowski this week. | 11yrs

Norton Rose Fulbright and Corrs Chambers Westgarth are said to have been building teams for two years to handle a series of disputes in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry that are expected to last years and involve 'mind blowing' sums. | 11yrs

According to Baker & McKenzie and other law firms, oil and gas companies could be particularly prone to litigation - especially as a result of layoffs - as the sector goes through a downturn. | 11yrs

M&A activity looks likely to increase in Q3 as companies begin reorganisations, according to William Wood, head of energy and infrastructure for Norton Rose Fulbright in the US. | 11yrs

John McClenahan, former managing partner of Ashurst in the City, will become managing partner of the new King & Spalding office in Tokyo with an initial focus on energy and project finance. | 11yrs

Sam Laidlaw, the Macfarlanes-trained lawyer who was criticised for his luxurious lifestyle as he warned of possible energy blackouts while at the helm of the UK's leading energy business, is to build an oil and gas venture backed by private equity. | 11yrs

King & Wood Mallesons has announced that three partners will lead its new Singapore office for which it was given a foreign law practice licence in February. | 11yrs

Signs have emerged - in the energy hub of Perth - that straitened energy businesses have started to lay off lawyers and to rely on finance officers and others to liaise with external counsel over lawsuits and other matters. | 11yrs