England - London • Projects, energy and natural resources
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is well-known for its longstanding relationship with Chevron and is praised for the team’s ‘breadth of industry connections’ in the oil and gas sector. The group is seeing increasingly impressive mandates at all levels of the value chain, including upstream and downstream work. Greg Hammond joined from Dentons in July 2022 and co-leads the oil & gas group in conjunction with Deborah Ruff.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The team is known for its breadth of industry connections, expertise in M&A in diverse jurisdictions and willingness to spend time to understand clients perspective.'
- 'The group's international expertise and experience are solid, especially in Africa. Their practice covers a wide range of activities from financing to M&A involving all the economic chains of O&G.'
- 'UK team is up to date with market developments and provides an all round service.'
- 'Greg Hammond - very creative in building deal structures, engaging different counterparts to see a beneficial outcome. Excellent inter-personal skills.'
- 'Greg Hammond is very personable, experienced and responsive.'
- 'Greg Hammond is excellent to work with.'
Key clients
- Chevron New Energies
- Chevron Technology Ventures LLC
- Nikola Corporation
Work highlights
- Advised oil super-major Chevron on a key investment as part of its Energy Transition strategy, namely the acquisition of a significant shareholding in Carbon Clean (the developer of the leading “Cyclone-C” carbon capture technology).
- Advised oil super-major Chevron on a key investment as part of its Energy Transition strategy, namely the acquisition of a significant shareholding in Ocean GeoLoop AS (the green tech company which uses natural vegetable matter to capture CO2 at source).
- Advised oil super-major Chevron on a wide range of international trade related matters, including sanctions and compliance issues involving all US, UK, and EU sanctions programs, export controls (technology transfers, encryption licensing, deemed exports, etc.), antiboycott, CFIUS issues and customs matters.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Greg Hammond, Deborah Ruff