Energy and natural resources

The firm has extensive experience in energy and natural resources disputes.

Our lawyers act for investors, energy producers, States and state-owned energy companies in international arbitration and litigation in disputes over operating permits, partnership agreements and production sharing agreements.

Our partners’ recent experience in international arbitration includes:

• counsel to an international investor in an ICC arbitration against a West African State concerning the withdrawal of a license to operate a manganese mine (amount in dispute: $5 billion, civil law, ICC The Hague, French language);
• counsel to a Central African state-owned oil company in an arbitration against an oil broker concerning the termination of a contract for the supply of oil products (amount in dispute: $134 million, LCIA London, French law, French language);
• counsel to a Central African state-owned oil company in an arbitration against a French oil company regarding the recovery of oil costs (amount in dispute: $43 million, ICC Paris, French law, French language);
• counsel to an international investor in an ICSID arbitration against a West African State regarding two oil exploration and production sharing contracts (€77 million euros, Senegalese law, ICSID, French language);
• representation of an international mining group in an arbitration relating to an iron ore mine in Sierra Leone (amount in dispute: $75 million, English law, LCIA London, English language);
• counsel to a French energy producer in an arbitration against a partner concerning the development of a project in the field of renewable energies (amount in dispute: €6 million, ICC Paris, English language);
• counsel to a major player in the energy sector against a Namibian company in an arbitration relating to the mining sector (amount in dispute: $3.5 million, Swiss law, ICC Geneva, English language).

Our partners’ recent experience in commercial litigation includes:

• representation of a Central African state-owned oil company in a dispute relating to the release of a bank escrow (amount in dispute: $43 million, Judicial Court of Paris).