Oil & Gas

The oil and gas sector faces complex legal issues in a fast paced and challenging market. Whilst industry and manufacturing are fuel hungry, oil and gas solicitors acknowledge the risks that oil and gas operations face in turbulent economic times with heightened environmental and regulatory pressures.

At IMD Corporate, our oil and gas team offers calm and efficient legal advice, drawing upon a multi-disciplinary team of experts to provide your business with the comprehensive advice required. Whilst we offer transactional advice, we aim to be your trusted legal advisor, the oil and gas solicitors you know who are pragmatic and approachable and the ones you can trust with your oil and gas legal needs.

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Oil and gas services

With offices across the UK and EU, and with many trusted overseas law partners, our oil and gas team with its specialist lawyers can assist you with navigating:

regulatory compliance and environmental matters
health and safety law and policies
licensing
data protection
intellectual property
infrastructure agreements
joint venture and joint operating agreements
oil and gas supply agreements
commercial contracts from joint bidding, production sharing, drilling, well services, seismic data, unitisation and rig agreements
production sharing contracts including offshore drilling, sub-sea and production pipeline agreements
renewable energy contracts
commercial property and contaminated land
global talent recruitment through business immigration advice
employment contracts and disputes
tax law and investigations

Oil and gas business law services

Our oil and gas team has expertise in:

Marcin Durlak

Managing Partner View profile

Key contact

Olexandr Kyrychenko

Partner View profile

Zoya Burbeza

Senior Consultant Solicitor View profile

Who IMD Solicitors acts for in the oil and gas sector

As a full-service law firm with offices across the UK and Europe and with many trusted partners, IMD Solicitors acts for large multinationals as well as smaller start-up and scale-up businesses in the oil and gas sector and associated fields and industries.

We utilise our broad industry knowledge to provide legal advice on all aspects of the oil and gas value chain from exploration to production, including upstream, midstream, and downstream. Our oil and gas team has significant experience in getting integrated projects and deals done and in resolving oil and gas-related disputes.

IMD Solicitors have offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and several European cities, with many trusted partners throughout Europe. We resolve UK and EU based disputes, corporate transactions and commercial law matters governed by UK or EU law.

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List of notable commercial cases

Advising one of the largest European banks on a number of occasions in respect of validity and construction of guarantees and on demand bonds, together with validity of agreements varying the guarantees and the underlying multi-million facility agreements.
Advising on the establishment of a large entertainment company. Preparing various corporate and investment documents and leading extensive negotiations of shareholder agreement and ancillary documents. In addition, we provided various legal support to the company on on-going basis.
Acting for a major automotive manufacturer in a joint venture with a UK company to commence production and distribution on the product in the UK and the Commonwealth. Negotiating and preparing all the relevant joint venture documents.
Acting for the construction company in a large scale building project of circa £25m. Involved in negotiating an extensive JCT D&B contract as between our client (main contractor) and the local authority who were their client in this project.
Drafting Terms & Conditions and Warranty terms for a leading UK manufacturer of steel doors, windows and partitions.
Representing a sub-contractor in construction contract negotiations involving a large number of parties for construction of a museum in Kuwait.
Advising on and drafting SaaS (Software as a Service) contract for the Client entering the UK market
Advising on both pro-supplier and pro-customer Software Development Agreements for various Clients
Advised a technology start up to set up and validate a messaging app, a direct competitor to Facebook’s Messenger
Advising the client on and negotiating terms of corporate and personal guarantees tied to a cross-border commercial contract.
Assisting a charity in preparation of various terms and conditions and contractual agreements.
Advising the client on the terms of a joint venture agreement in an innovative waste management project.
Advised the first Polish-owned bridging company in the UK
Advising the client on the validity of execution of a number of international corporate finance agreements.