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Charles Wood
Work Department
Energy, Transport and Infrastructure
Position
Charles specializes in LNG and gas projects and sales, downstream gas and electricity market reform and regulation, and energy and natural resources projects.
He is a partner in the Firm’s Energy, Transport and Infrastructure practice.
His clients include:
- for market reform and regulation – governments, energy regulators, gas and electricity utilities, and energy trading companies (in the UK and overseas);
- for LNG and other energy projects – international and national oil companies (IOCs and NOCs), LNG terminal operators, project sponsors, and governments, in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Education
- College of Law, 1978, LPC,
- University College Oxford, 1976, BA
- University College Oxford, MA, Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology (PPP)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
(Hall of Fame)The energy practice at Dentons works across the oil & gas energy value chain and provides a full-service offering to clients that encompasses projects, disputes and financing as well as regulatory, commercial and corporate advice. Expertise in LNG, upstream, midstream and downstream as well as in the blue hydrogen space are core features of the ‘highly specialized and experienced’ team’s service portfolio. Highly experienced transactional energy lawyer Humphrey Douglas heads the department; renowned practitioner Charles Wood
is known for designing commercial and regulatory frameworks for market reform and large-scale energy projects; and Colm Ó hUiginn comes recommended as a ‘first class lawyer with exceptional ability at delivering to the client’s needs both in terms of technical legal analysis but also an astute commercial understanding of the industry’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Oil and gas London > Projects, energy and natural resources
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Real estate > Environment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport