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Covid-19 - A Contractual Nightmare
While COVID-19 (previously known as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’) has engulfed the entire world and authorities have been desperately implementing umpteen measures to contain the spread of this pandemic; from a...Read more

Arun Subash
Legal Counsel for Oil and Gas - E&P, Reliance Industries Limited, India
The Role of Competition in the Construction of the EU Internal Energy Market From the Prism of the Power Exchange

Power Exchanges (PX) have been at the cornerstone of the liberalisation of the wholesale electricity market in the 1990s and then of the integration of the single internal electricity market...Read more

Zohra Boumedhel
Head of Legal Affairs, Epex Spot, France

Antoine Donne
Legal Counsel, Epex Spot, France
How to Navigate the Business in a Sanctioned Jurisdiction
It is imperative for a company, irrespective of the place of its incorporation or its headquarters, to seriously consider to what extent and how to comply with the American sanctions...Read more

Haitao Zhang
Director Legal , Cnpc America., Canada
Dispelling the Myths and Identifying the Risks for the In-House Lawyer Confronted with Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
The internet analyst firm Gartner has suggested that there will be 20.4 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020. Cisco Visual Networking Index has commented that “More than one...Read more

Charlotte Stetzel
Regional Legal Counsel, Dnv Gl, UK
Contract Risk and Reality: Working Towards Balance

“We can’t possibly sign this! How could the client think that this could be considered a fair and balanced contract?” I said, referring indignantly to the thick set of terms...Read more

Terra Potter
Regional General Counsel - Industrial EMEA/AP, Hexcel Composites, UK
Owner In-House Counsel Concerns in Large Construction Contracts 
When an owner contracts for a new large energy infrastructure project in Canada there are many issues they need to consider before, during and after the contract has been signed....Read more

Shannon Onook
Senior Legal Counsel, TransCanada Corporation, Canada
Interpretation of the Principle of Stability Applicable to the Terms Governing Subsoil Use in the Context of Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan
On December 27, 2017, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed the Code on Subsoil and Subsoil Use (hereinafter - the Code). According to the transitional period provisions, the...Read more
Nurzhan Kakimov
First Level Lawyer, Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. , Kazakhstan
Going Dutch
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In an era where the location of the commercial centre of Europe remains to be determined, we look at the position of the English Commercial Court (ECC) and that of...Read more
Ingeborg Kuyvenhoven
General Counsel, Petrobras Oil & Gas B.V., Netherlands
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Tim Reid
Partner, Ashurst, UK
Attorney-Client Privilege for In-house Counsel
A lawyer practicing in New York takes for granted claiming the attorney-client privilege no matter whether she/he works in a private law firm or a company, although there are so...Read more

Haitao Zhang
Director Legal , Cnpc America., Canada
Mitigating Risks of Privately Financed Power Projects in
Sub-Sahara Africa ('SSA')
In 2014, the forty-nine Sub-Sahara Africa (“SSA”) countries, with a combined population of more than 800 million, had an installed electric power generation capacity of 92 Gigawatts (GW). This figure...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA