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Last week the UK Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated decision in URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21.

As global demand for critical minerals intensifies — driven by the energy transition, technological innovation, and geopolitical competition — deep-sea mining has emerged as a potential frontier in resource development.

The Arbitration Act 2025 (the “2025 Act”) is a welcome update to English arbitration law and one which seeks to further London’s place as a leading seat for international arbitration.

The United Kingdom has become the first county in Europe to invest in the next generation of nuclear fuel, promising to award £196 million to Urenco’s Capenhurst site in northwest England to support production of up to 10 tonnes of high-assay low enriched uranium (“HALEU”) per year.

Two ICSID tribunals have recently upheld Spain’s intra-European Union (EU) jurisdictional objections in two arbitrations pursuant to the Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”).

Ciara Ros shares the inspiration behind the London office’s achieVE Mentoring Programme, which has been nominated for Social Mobility Programme of the Year at the Legal Benchmarking Group Social Impact Awards 2024.

Vinson & Elkins was one of the early adopters of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam. Grace Gibson-Venner, Associate Director of International Attorney Development and Recruitment, recently discussed the firm’s SQE journey with BARBRI’s Business Development Director, Jonathan Worrell.

We have been following the International Seabed Authority (“ISA”) Council’s negotiations and drafting of the Exploitation Rules, Regulations and Procedures (“Exploitation RRPs”) for the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction (the “Area”).

Energy Regulation Partner Jeffrey Jakubiak provides his thoughts on the growing need for electric infrastructure to support the growing need for the supply of power to the growing server farms serving AI and related resources.

The volatility of energy prices following recent geopolitical challenges has brought a renewed focus on domestic energy security.

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a surge in demand for power-hungry data centre capacity in Europe.

Following months of delays and intense debate in Congress, President Biden signed H.R. 815 into law on April 24, 2024, which made headlines for funding $95 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, along with mandating the divestment of social media app TikTok.