Brodies LLP‘s oil and gas team advises on complex, high-stakes matters across the upstream lifecycle, with particular strength in M&A, decommissioning work, field developments, and disputes. The group acts for operator and service sector clients in the UK and internationally, with growing activity in the Middle East through its Abu Dhabi office. Team head Clare Munro is lauded as an ’exceptional partner with top-quality knowledge, experience and commercial acumen’ and is active on project development and oil and gas commercial contracts. Greg May handles drilling, offshore construction and decommissioning contracts for a global client base, while Rhona McFarlane brings in-house experience to bear across upstream and midstream mandates. Laura Petrie is active on M&A, joint ventures, and project development work for operator clients. Laura Fraser also comes recommended.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
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‘Very strong and deep team with lots of experience in the UK and internationally.’
‘Clare Munro: exceptional partner with top-quality knowledge, experience and commercial acumen.’
‘Laura Petrie is one of the best North Sea O&G lawyers there is. She has deep and broad experience plus up-to-date market knowledge of all key projects and players. It's also great to see the way she mentors and supports younger team members.'
‘Brodies specialise in all legal aspects of the oil and gas sector's activities and provide a wide-ranging level of services to its oil and gas clients.’
‘Greg May has more than 25 years of experience as an oil and gas practitioner and has worked extensively in-house, as well as in private practice. He understands the needs of an in-house GC and is my go-to counsel.’
'Great strength in depth combining knowledge and approachability.'
'Brodies provide a professional well rounded oil and gas service with Laura Petrie their oil and gas Partner - a perfect conduit to providing the full range of services that Brodies can provide.'
'Laura Petrie - Partner Oil and Gas is extremely knowable on all aspects of the oil and gas industry and has a wealth of contacts. We regard Laura as an essential part of our team and she is extremely well thought of within the oil and gas industry. '
'The Brodies team are the pre-eminent private practice oil and gas team in the UK. The Brodies partners have experience in all sectors of oil and gas work from M&A, joint venture, field development to service sector support and are adept at evolving innovative transaction structures.'
'Brodies have an excellent oil and gas team - hugely capable lawyers, fast reacting, forward thinking and very hard working for their clients. They offer a huge breadth of experience which is evident in their advice which is both commercially pragmatic and well informed.'
Key clients
- RockRose Energy
- Spirit Energy
- North Sea Midstream Partners
- Dana Petroleum
- Nobel Upstream
Work highlights
Advising Shell (BG International Limited) on the Jackdaw judicial review.
Advising Nobel Upstream on the potential decommissioning of the Gryphon floating production storage and offloading vessel.
Advising RockRose Energy on its £46m acquisition of a 15% interest in the Bressay Field and the EnQuest Producer floating production storage and offloading vessel.
Lawyers
Hall of Fame
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Leading partners
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Greg May
Next Generation Partners
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Rhona McFarlane
Practice head
Clare Munro
Other key lawyers
Greg May; Rhona McFarlane; Laura Petrie; Laura Fraser