Pinsents, Freshfields advise as Total sells £585m of North Sea assets
Pinsents bags role advising French oil major after raid on regional firm Bond Dickinson's energy team earlier this year
August 28, 2015 at 11:58 AM
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French oil group Total has turned to Pinsent Masons as it ramps up the sale of its North Sea assets following the plunge in oil prices.
The energy group said on Thursday (27 August) that it had signed an agreement to sell Scottish gas terminal St Fergus and all of its interests in the FUKA and SIRGE pipelines to North Sea Midstream Partners for £585m.
Pinsents team is being led by Glasgow energy partner Rosalie Chadwick and includes London energy partner Paul McGoldrick and Edinburgh employment partner Euan Smith.
Earlier this year Pinsents hired McGoldrick in London, who counts Total among his clients, from Bond Dickinson.
At the same time, Bond Dickinson oil and gas legal directors John McSparran and Jane Chester and energy employment solicitor Katie Rich also moved to Pinsents.
Burness Paull advised Total on Scottish real estate matters, with an Aberdeen team led by property partner Richard Goodfellow and director, Gillian Irons alongside property head Elaine Farquharson-Black.
Freshfields Bruckhaus is advising North Sea Midstream Partners, which was formed in 2012. Its London-based team is being led by corporate partner Martin Nelson-Jones and senior associate Richard Jones, with support from real estate head Emma Kendall and finance partners Peter Hall and Alan Rae Smith.
In 2012, Freshfields advised ArcLight on the formation of North Sea Midstream Partners Limited and its acquisition of the Teesside Gas Processing Plant.
Scottish real estate advice was provided by Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, led by partners Colin Robertson and Scott Ritchie.
The move by Total follows the £565m sale in July of its stake in a gas field off the Shetland Islands to SSE, one of Britain's big six domestic energy suppliers and more could follow.
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