Berwin Leighton Paisner
Berwin Leighton Paisner is one of the top 20 law firms based in the UK. It was formed through the merger of Berwin Leighton and Paisner & Co in 2001.
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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. [1]
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 [2]
- Centre for European Reform
- Defence Manufacturers Association
- Public Private Partnership Forum
- Member of the UK Defence Forum
Lobbying firms retained
Bell Pottinger Public Affairs [3] | Cicero Consulting[4] | Interel [5] Pepper Public Affairs[6]
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[7]
- 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
Former paid advisers
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
- worked for the National Pension Service of Korea
- 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[9]
FTSE 100 clients
- Aviva (property) | Burberry Group | Experian (competition law/corporate) | Legal & General Group | National Grid (commercial/construction/ litigation) | Tesco (commercial/ corporate/property) [10]
Listed on BLP website
UK
AMEC | Aviva Investors | Balfour Beatty | Barclays | Blackstone |Great Portland Estates | Hadrian’s Wall Capital | Hatfield Philips | Hellenic Petroleum | Land Securities | National Grid | Olympic Delivery Authority | Oman Power and Water Procurement Company | Oracle | Playtech | Premier Oil Qatari Diar | Schroders | Tesco | Thames Water | The Financial Times | The Football Association | Travelex | UBS | Wilmington Trust |
Publications
- Tim Sumner, Adam Dann, Expert insights: Oil and gas law update: AIPN publishes unconventional resources operating agreement, BLP website, 29 September 2014
Contact
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Resources
Notes
- ↑ Tim Sumner, Adam Dann, Expert insights: Oil and gas law update: AIPN publishes unconventional resources operating agreement, BLP website, 29 September 2014
- ↑ Source: [1]
- ↑ PRCA Public Affairs Register: Agencies – September to November 2012
- ↑ Association of Professional Political Consultants. APPC Register Entry, 1 Sep - 30 Nov 2010.
- ↑ Interel Consulting UK, APPC Register Entry for 1 March 2010 to 31 May 2010
- ↑ PRCA Public Affairs Register: Agencies – September to November 2012
- ↑ Tim Pugh, Berwin, Leighton Paisner website, undated, accessed 28 October 2014
- ↑ Lord Mendelsohn, www.parliament.co.uk, undated, accessed 28 October 2014
- ↑ Luke McLeod-Roberts, BLP hiring spree and tax umbrella policy paves way for City supremacy The Lawyer. June 21, 2010, Pg. 11.
- ↑ Lawyers to the top FTSE 100 companies, Chambers and Partners, 2012
