Leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has advised BP on its first major investments in Mauritania and Senegal through a US$916 million deal with Kosmos Energy to acquire interests in offshore exploration blocks

As part of the transaction BP has signed agreements to take a 62 percent interest in Kosmos's exploration blocks in Mauritania, including operatorship, and an effective 32.5 percent interest in the US company's exploration blocks in Senegal.

London—Dentons, together with Anya & Associates in Indonesia, has advised  PT Pertamina (Persero), the Fortune Global 500 state-owned oil and gas company of the Republic of Indonesia, on a joint venture agreement with the Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft, to jointly develop a new refining and petrochemical complex in Tuban, East Java. The Tuban refinery is set to be the first oil refinery built in Indonesia in 22 years and is expected to have a crude processing capacity in excess of 300,000 bpd while being targeted for completion in the early 2020s.

Slaughter and May is advising Kosmos Energy (Kosmos) on its partnership with BP in Mauritania and Senegal.  The partnership combines Kosmos’ exploration expertise with BP’s deepwater development and LNG production and marketing expertise.

Göteborg Energi AB and Skövde Municipality have entered into an agreement with Torran Gas Holding AB regarding the transfer of Skövde Biogas AB to Torran Gas Holding AB. The transfer is expected to be completed in March 2017.

Skövde Biogas produces and sells biogas and biofertiliser. The company is currently owned by Göteborg Energi (51%) and Skövde Municipality (49%).

Hogan Lovells, White & Case and Luther provide legal advice for Open Grid Europe and Gasunie's takeover of jordgasTransport from Statoil

Advising AREVA in connection with the signature of the agreement for the sale of all its shares held in its subsidiary AREVA TA to a consortium of buyers made up of the French Government’s Agency of State Holdings (Agence des Participations de l’Etat – APE, 50.32% of the capital), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives – CEA, 20.32% of the capital) and DCNS (20.32% of the capital). EDF will stay a shareholder (9.03% of the capital).

Gowling WLG has advised client Primrose Solar on its disposal of a portfolio of six solar farms, with an aggregate capacity of 78MW, to Greencoat Capital's first solar vehicle, Greencoat Solar I LP, one of 2016's largest private solar M&A deals in the UK.

The portfolio comprises solar farms in Cornwall, Wimbourn, Chichester, Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Morecambe and Hampshire, with the latter - Eveley Farm - being one of the largest sites in the country at 49MW (and in respect of which Gowling WLG advised on the acquisition and financing earlier this year).

Shearman & Sterling advised China state-owned State Grid as the preferred strategic investor on the acquisition of a 24% interest of Independent Power Transmission Operator, a wholly owned subsidiary of Greece state-owned Public Power Corporation.

The signing ceremony was held in Athens, Greece on Friday, December 16, 2016. The transaction represents China's second-largest investment in Greece in recent months.

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has worked with the Legal team of Shell International Limited (“Shell”) on a world scale petrochemical joint venture project with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (“CNOOC”) in Huizhou, southern China.

On December 19, 2016, Groupe E has entered into an agreement with BKW about the disposal by BKW of its 10% participation in Groupe E. The shares were purchased by Groupe E (buy-back) as well as institutional investors. In parallel, Groupe E maintains its participation of 10% in BKW. The parties have agreed to keep the value of the transaction undisclosed.