Energy law was a star performer for the sector in the first quarter of 2013.
Only a spate of mega-deals in the technology, media and telecoms space kept energy sector legal work from once again taking the top spot in law firm activity in the first quarter of 2013 according to the latest rankings and data from Mergermarket. Keep reading →
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso makes a statement on recent developments in Romania following a meeting on July 18, 2012, at the European Union Headquarters in Brussels.
It’s hard to imagine a more uncomfortable issue for U.S. and European natural resource companies than the required disclosure of payments to the resource-owning “governments” with which they do business. How exactly is a company expected to reconcile the normative virtue of transparency with the mean, dollar-driven, shovel-in-the-ground reality that defines much of the resource-rich (and nicety-poor) world? At what point does transparency simply accelerate the deconstruction of a company’s competitiveness (no matter how civic-minded relative to those of unfettered competitors from the east) BRIC by BRIC? Keep reading →
Lawyers are often accused of offering clients little more than the blindingly obvious accessorized with a chunky bill. But sometimes that’s the point. A concise, orderly recitation of macro-level issues by an outside advisor can instill a client-insider with clarity and a renewed confidence in his/her own expertise. Clifford Chance’s “Where is the US energy market today?” is an alert that does exactly that.
You probably already consciously or unconsciously know that the US nuclear sector has been Fukushima’ed “into the dark ages;” that the truism that the US has “an energy supply system that responds to price signals – but not much else” becomes that much more true in an election year; that all-hailed shale is leading “a revolution that…will dramatically change the US energy construct;” and that the short-term future of renewables sits on a policy knife-edge. Keep reading →
