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Stronachs LLP Offices
28 ALBYN PLACE
ABERDEEN
AB10 1YL
Scotland
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Ewan Neilson
Work Department
Energy and Natural Resources-Oil & Gas; Corporate; Commercial.
Position
Consultant and specialist in energy work and corporate/corporate finance and included within those specialist areas are energy upstream, mid-stream, technology, and corporate finance. Ewan acts for management teams, banks and institutions and has been involved in a number of large scale overseas transactions in the development of game-changing new technology in the oil and gas industry.
Career
Trained Macfarlanes; qualified 1989; worked in City of London as international banking lawyer; energy/corporate lawyer, Aberdeen 1993 to date; worked on international transactions in several jurisdictions; partner Stronachs LLP 2007 to date. Co-editor and contributor to ‘The Technical and Legal Guide to the UK Oil and Gas Industry’ (September 2007); ‘Global Hydrocarbons – Markets, Trading, Refining, Transportation’; ‘Global Hydrocarbons – Unconventional Oil and Gas, Commercial Contracts, Transparency’ and ‘Global Hydrocarbons – Climate Change and Emissions, Technology, Regulations’ (September 2011).
Languages
English
Memberships
Law Society of Scotland; Law Society of England and Wales; Energy Institute.
Education
London School of Economics (1981 BSc Econ); Law College, Guildford.
Leisure
Sport, running, bagpipes, travel, theatre, writing.
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
Stronachs LLP is home to a ‘comprehensive knowledge’ of upstream acquisitions and disposals, field developments, decommissioning issues, technology-related deals, debt refinancing and energy transition mandates. Practice head Ewan Neilson has overseen energy matters in Africa, North America, Australasia and the Far-East; he is supported by James Downie, a specialist in M&A, development and operation contract endeavours.