Energy, Oil and Gas

VLM offers comprehensive and effective legal solutions to the energy and oil & gas industry players. Our lawyers have successfully served a broad spectrum of local and international oil and gas producers, service companies, trading companies, energy marketers, and state entities.

 

We are proud of having strong experience on the domestic and international stages, including global project finance, reorganization, Production Sharing Agreements (PSA) and statutory legislation, taxation, employment structuring, labor migration, and local content matters.

 

Previous remarkable energy projects that we involved in include a high-budget renewable energy project in Solomon Islands which was financed by Asian Development Bank. Furthermore, we have sucessfully conducted legal and tax due diligence on oil and gas companies operating under PSAs, supported offshore drilling companies to engage in joint ventures, and provided various legal services to oil and gas market players.

 

VLM’s lawyers advise its clients from energy sector in all stages of their presence. We have experience drafting and negotiating the tax and customs protocols of the PSA signed between the major oil companies and SOCAR, acquiring the international oil and gas companies, and restructuring an international oil company as a PSA Contractor in Azerbaijan, as well as various alternative energy projects.

 

You can rely on us on:

1. Full legal outsourcing;

2. Alternative energy matters;

3. Commercial law services, legal and tax due diligence of the target and vendors;

4. Contracts and Business Law;

5. Corporate law;

6. Licensing;

7. Mergers and Acquisitions;

8. Oil and Gas, Energy Law;

9. Environmental Law;

10. Project finance;

11. Tax, Labor, and Migration issues, etc.