Advises clients on a variety of projects and transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with a particular focus on upstream and midstream oil and gas, LNG and LNG shipping matters.

Rob assists clients with the structuring and development of projects, joint venture arrangements, asset sales and purchases, and corporate acquisitions, disposals and financings. Rob's experience includes negotiating, drafting and advising on commercial arrangements including liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreements, LNG terminal use agreements, common facilities agreements, gas sale and purchase agreements, crude oil offtake agreements, pipeline transportation agreements, vessel charter agreements, joint venture agreements, and asset sale and purchase agreements.

Representative Work

LNG Project Development

Advising a major international energy company in connection with its participation in the North Field Expansion Project in Qatar.
Advising Novatek in relation to the structuring and development of the Arctic LNG 2 project.
Advising the project sponsors on all aspects of the development of a floating LNG regasification terminal in Ghana.
Advising the project sponsor of a proposed floating LNG liquefaction project in British Columbia, Canada.

LNG Marketing & Trading

Advising an international energy company on the establishment of an LNG marketing joint venture, the entry into a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement and a terminal use agreement in connection with the development of a new-build LNG import terminal in China.
Advising Novatek on LNG marketing activities, including long-term LNG sales from the Yamal LNG project and the Arctic LNG 2 project.
Advising an international energy company on the long-term purchase of LNG on a delivered ex-ship (DES) basis from the Mozambique LNG project.
Advising various international energy companies on their standard form master LNG sale and purchase agreements (MSAs).

LNG Shipping

Advising a national oil company on its tender for a new floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) in respect of an existing LNG import facility.
Advising the charterers on the long-term charter of an LNG carrier on a bareboat basis.
Advising the project sponsors on the entry into a ship management agreement for an FSRU.
Advising the project sponsors on the long-term charter of an FSRU for use at an LNG regasification terminal in Ghana.

Oil & Gas

Advising the government of an East African country on the development and project financing of a multi-billion US Dollar cross-border crude oil pipeline.
Advising a national oil company on the drafting and negotiation of a new concession for a cross-border oil field.
Advising a major international energy company in connection with the renegotiation of a production sharing contract in Angola.
Advising a state-owned company in connection with a $1 billion prepayment facility to fund a joint venture to develop oil and gas fields in the western region of Venezuela.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Advising Rosneft Oil Company in relation to its multibillion dollar sale to Trafigura of a 10% stake in Vostok Oil, a major world-class oil-producing project located in the Russian Arctic.
Advising an international energy company on the sale of its interests in two blocks offshore Gabon.
Advising an international energy company on its $1.75 billion sale to Sonangol EP of its interests in two blocks located offshore the Republic of Angola.
Advising an independent energy company on the acquisition of interests in the UK North Sea.

*List includes matters worked on prior to joining Akin.

LNG Marketing & Trading

Advising an international energy company on the establishment of an LNG marketing joint venture, the entry into a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement and a terminal use agreement in connection with the development of a new-build LNG import terminal in China.
Advising Novatek on LNG marketing activities, including long-term LNG sales from the Yamal LNG project and the Arctic LNG 2 project.
Advising an international energy company on the long-term purchase of LNG on a delivered ex-ship (DES) basis from the Mozambique LNG project.
Advising various international energy companies on their standard form master LNG sale and purchase agreements (MSAs).

LNG Shipping

Advising a national oil company on its tender for a new floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) in respect of an existing LNG import facility.
Advising the charterers on the long-term charter of an LNG carrier on a bareboat basis.
Advising the project sponsors on the entry into a ship management agreement for an FSRU.
Advising the project sponsors on the long-term charter of an FSRU for use at an LNG regasification terminal in Ghana.

Oil & Gas

Advising the government of an East African country on the development and project financing of a multi-billion US Dollar cross-border crude oil pipeline.
Advising a national oil company on the drafting and negotiation of a new concession for a cross-border oil field.
Advising a major international energy company in connection with the renegotiation of a production sharing contract in Angola.
Advising a state-owned company in connection with a $1 billion prepayment facility to fund a joint venture to develop oil and gas fields in the western region of Venezuela.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Advising Rosneft Oil Company in relation to its multibillion dollar sale to Trafigura of a 10% stake in Vostok Oil, a major world-class oil-producing project located in the Russian Arctic.
Advising an international energy company on the sale of its interests in two blocks offshore Gabon.
Advising an international energy company on its $1.75 billion sale to Sonangol EP of its interests in two blocks located offshore the Republic of Angola.
Advising an independent energy company on the acquisition of interests in the UK North Sea.

*List includes matters worked on prior to joining Akin.