CMS

Of Counsel

Judith Aldersey-Williams is Of Counsel in the CMS Energy & Climate Change Team, with over 25 years of experience in upstream oil and gas contracts and regulation. Based out of the Aberdeen office, she advises energy industry clients in the UK and internationally on their joint venture agreements, transportation agreements, gas sales agreements and procurement contracts and has worked on projects from Angola to Trinidad (she’s still hoping for a project in Zambia).  She also advises on regulatory issues and on competition/antitrust matters in the oil and gas industry.

Her career highpoints have been advising Oil & Gas UK in its negotiations with the UK Government over the introduction of ground-breaking contracts to guarantee tax relief for decommissioning and advising the Subsea Well Response Project, a group of nine multinational oil companies, on contracts for the development and funding of innovative equipment which is now available to allow operators around the world better to respond to well control incidents like Macondo. She regularly supports Oil & Gas UK on industry initiatives.

Trustee of the Energy, Mineral and Natural Resources Law and Policy Education Trust.

1989 - Admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales 1987 - Law Society Finals, College of Law 1986 - Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard Law School, LLM 1985 - BA in Law, 1st class, Cambridge University, Cambridge