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The team at Ashurst ADTLaw stands out for its full-coverage energy offering, including project development, M&A, joint ventures, financing, regulatory issues, and disputes. With a strong focus on energy transition, the team supports energy companies, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, and start-ups on cross-border transactions and strategic partnerships across renewables, green fuels, solar, wind, hydro, and EVs. The practice was strengthened by the arrival of the ‘efficient and extremely responsive’ Kok Jin Ong in December 2024, who specialises in M&A and joint ventures within the energy and infrastructure sectors, boasting deep experience in a range of transactions, including upstream and downstream oil and gas mandates. Jean-Louis Neves Mandelli is well-equipped to serve a diverse client base in the energy space, on transactions across Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Alfred Ng has demonstratable expertise in developments, financing and M&A transactions, with a focus on South and South East Asia. Scott Baggett is a key port of call for sponsors and lenders on the development and financing of energy and natural resources projects.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Exceptional Partner lawyer with great industry experience. Not only that, the firm brings quality outputs and results, the process is well-managed. Great hands-on culture too.’

  • ‘Kok Jin Ong has been one of the best lawyers to work with. He stands out to understand well the minds of the client and drives deals towards that direction. Always key to have such a valuable asset within your team when pursuing large M&A deals. Great communication skills as well as being always respondent. Professional legal skill set with professional commercial understanding of energy sector equipped.’

  • ‘ADT is the litigation arm of Ashurst and hence is able to have synergies of advising their clients on a variety of topics in relation to a project.’

  • ‘The individuals work across the different teams to make sure existing knowledge is shared between teams. This helps for them to provide a wholistic solution towards the topic they have been engaged to work on.’

  • ‘Kok Jin Ong is efficient, extremely responsive, and understands us and our business. He can tackle complicated and multi-layered transactions and manages his team very effectively. Overall, a safe pair of hands for any transaction he helps us with. Mei An Chan, an associate in his team, has also been excellent. She is smart, reliable, and knows her stuff. The both of them easily outclassed the other teams, also from international firms, that were on our transaction.’

  • ‘Kok Jin is our go-to person for anything energy related requiring international counsel support.’

Key clients

  • InterContinental Energy
  • ACEN
  • Innopower
  • ACWA Power
  • Masdar
  • Prime Energy Resources Development
  • Southeast Asia Clean Energy Facility
  • Norfund
  • Alberta Investment Management Corporation

Work highlights

Advised BNP Paribas and a syndicate of 5 other international banks on a facility to Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar in relation to the financing of the acquisition from Enel Green Power España S.L.U. of a 49.99 per cent stake in a portfolio of solar PV assets with an operating installed capacity of c. 2 GWp.
Advised Alberta Investment Management Corporation ("AIMCo") on its US $200,000,000 co-investment into Cyan Renewables, Asia's first dedicated offshore wind farm vessel operator.

Practice head

Kok Jin Ong; Jean-Louis Neves Mandelli; Alfred Ng; Scott Baggett

Other key lawyers

Mei An Chan