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(Houston) – Akin Gump is pleased to announce it has released its “2020 Energy Year in Review,” which examines the current state of the global energy market and highlights the energy matters with which the firm was involved last year across the following areas:
- Mergers, Acquisitions & Strategic Transactions
- Capital Markets
- Financing
- Project Development
- Financial Restructuring
- Energy Litigation.
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The winter storm in Texas last month altered perceptions of the Texas electricity market (not to mention the heavy toll it took on the residents of Texas), including the reputation of renewable energy hedges. However, not all hedges are created alike, and whether a renewable energy project was financially jeopardized by the recent Texas storms or whether it saw minimal impact depends on the type of hedge that facility entered into well before the storm hit.
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In the dynamic world of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) trading, one of the hottest new products is the carbon-neutral transaction. Designed to make oil and LNG more competitive environmentally with renewable energy in response to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) pressures, climate change and the decarbonization megatrend, carbon-neutral oil and carbon-neutral LNG provide for the offset of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with a defined set of oil or LNG activities. A carbon-neutral oil or LNG transaction is effected through terms in the underlying transaction documents that govern the sourcing, purchase and retirement of carbon credits as offset units (COUs).1
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(Houston) – Akin Gump is pleased to announce it has released its “2015 Energy Year in Review,” which examines the current state of the global energy market and highlights the energy matters with which the firm was involved last year in the following areas:
- M&A
- financial restructuring
- capital markets
- lending
- project development and project finance
- energy regulation, markets and enforcement
- energy litigation and international arbitration.