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Eversheds wins role on Uganda's $2.5bn oil refinery project

Eversheds has scored the lead role advising the Ugandan government on securing a lead investor for the country's first oil refinery, estimated to be worth $2.5bn (£1.6bn). The government is seeking an investor or consortium to take a 60% stake in the facility, which is intended to improve energy security in Uganda and East Africa and proposed to have a capacity of 60,000 barrels per day.
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Norton Rose Fulbright and Pinsents advise on Falklands oil and gas merger

Norton Rose Fulbright and Pinsent Masons have landed the leading roles on a deal that will see Falkland Oil & Gas (FOGL) acquire fellow exploration company Desire Petroleum. The combination of the two Falklands companies, which will create an entity worth around $250m (£156m), will see FOGL's shareholders own 60% of the combined group's issued share capital after the offer closes, with Desire stakeholders owning the remainder.
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British Gas snares Vodafone director for reinstated general counsel role

British Gas has hired Vodafone UK's corporate and external affairs director Justine Campbell as general counsel following a shake-up of the energy giant's senior team. The recruitment of Campbell, who will join the company at the start of December, marks the reinstatement of the GC role after it was phased out following the departure of Melanie Rowlands in April 2012...
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Pinsents wins second exclusive client contract with E.ON deal

Pinsent Masons has signed a new partnership with E.ON which will see the firm become sole legal adviser to the energy giant's UK business. The arrangement, which will last for five years, sees Pinsents cover the full range of legal services, thereby reducing E.ON's external legal advisers in the UK to just one.
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Burges Salmon advises as Europe's largest tidal power generation project gets go-ahead

Burges Salmon has helped secure consent for the largest tidal power generation project to have gained approval in Europe. The firm has advised MyGen - a joint venture between investment bank Morgan Stanley (45%), GDF SUEZ (45%) and tidal technology provider Atlantis Resources Corporation (10%) - on the 86MW Phase 1 Pentland Firth tidal generation development, which was given approval earlier this month.
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CMS partner appointed as new lord mayor of the City of London

CMS Cameron McKenna energy partner Fiona Woolf has been appointed Lord Mayor of the City of London. Woolf was elected today as the 686th Lord Mayor but only the second female holder of the post in its 800-year history.
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UK duo take top roles on creation of world's biggest solar power plant

Ashurst and Norton Rose Fulbright have landed key roles on the creation of the world's largest solar power plant, which is under construction in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Ashurst advised the project company ACWA Power on the development and financing of the first phase of the programme, with a team led by energy partner David Wadham and finance partner James Coiley. ACWA Power will sell the plant's output to the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) under a 25-year power purchase agreement. Masen currently owns 25% of ACWA Power. Norton Rose Fulbright advised Masen, with global head of energy Simon Currie taking the lead role.
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Dentons heads to Houston as it beefs up oil and gas network

Dentons is to open its 79th global office in Houston, becoming the latest firm to add a local presence in the home of the US oil and gas industry.
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Reed Smith eyes growth in Singapore with hire of HSF Indonesia partner

Reed Smith in Singapore has hired Herbert Smith Freehills energy lawyer Charles Ball as a partner as the firm looks to expand its presence in the city-state a year after opening there. Ball, who joins from the UK firm's Jakarta office, has extensive experience in Indonesia, which is a key market for the firm, with his focus spanning disputes, crisis management and compliance in the energy and natural resources sector.
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Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Clifford Chance, Mayer Brown and Eversheds

Australian firm Gadens has added to its corporate team in Perth with the hire of King & Wood Mallesons partner David Perks. Having spent a decade at Mallesons, Perks has significant experience in Australia's M&A market, specialising in energy, projects and resources and advising clients such as BHP Billiton, CITIC Resources, Goldcorp and Focus Minerals.
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