Berwin Leighton Paisner

Berwin Leighton Paisner is one of the top twenty law firms based in the UK. It was formed through the merger of Berwin Leighton and Paisner & Co in 2001.

Activities

Energy sector - oil and gas

BLP has extensive experience advising oil and gas companies on corporate and commercial oil and gas transactions. The firm is currently advising on a series of mandates involving unconventional resources in the UK and internationally.

Affiliations

• Associate member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas - paid £2500 fee (registered December 2013)
• British American Project - past sponsor
• Centre for European Reform
• Defence Manufacturers Association
• Public Private Partnership Forum
• Member of the UK Defence Forum

People

• Kenneth Addly, associate director, Projects, Energy & Infrastructure
• Simon Allan, partner, Projects, Energy & Infrastructure
• Dimitri Antipin, associate, Project Finance
• Kiran Arora, senior associate, Projects, Energy & Infrastructure
• Adam Dann, oil and gas lawyer
• Tim Pugh, partner planning and environment, industry specialisms in nuclear, oil and gas, power, renewables, water, sport, rail and real estate
• Liron Meister, senior associate
• Asaf Rimon, senior associate (oil and gas)
• Tim Smith, partner
• Tim Sumner, senior associate (oil and gas)
• Alfred Weightman, Associate at Berwin Leighton Paisner

Paid political advisers

• Jonathan Mendelsohn

Clients

• handled the complex tax and real estate work for Clifford Chance client Blackstone on its joint venture with British Land, acting as co-counsel with former Clifford Chance partner Adam Signy, now at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, who handled corporate matters;
• it worked for the National Pension Service of Korea;
• it acted for Tesco on the tax matters of a sale-and-leaseback deal;
• for Oxford Properties and UBS in relation to the letting of Watermark Place to Nomura

Publications

• Tim Sumner, Adam Dann, Expert insights: Oil and gas law update: AIPN publishes unconventional resources operating agreement, BLP website, 29 September 2014

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Resources

• Tim Smith Tim Pugh, Unconventional Oil Gas Consenting.mp4 BLP video.