Anna Chard-Steel
Anna has experience in energy projects, general corporate work, and share- and asset-based mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the oil and gas sector.
Experience Highlights
An international energy company on the proposed acquisition of offshore oil and gas assets in Ghana with an estimated value of approximately $4.5 billion
Equinor (formerly Statoil) in the $3.08 billion sale of a 40% share in the Peregrino oil field in Brazil to Chinese state-owned oil company Sinochem Group
An international energy company on the proposed acquisition of a group of companies holding interests in upstream oil and gas exploration and producing assets in Nigeria, Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Guinea Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Latvia, and Norway
An independent energy company with respect to its purchase of shares in an offshore company with upstream oil and gas assets in Nigeria
An international energy company with respect to a farm in to an exploration asset offshore Ghana
An international energy company on the proposed sale of an interest in an upstream oil and gas asset offshore Angola in deepwater to an existing partner
An international energy company on the proposed acquisition of an interest in an upstream oil and gas concession in Brazil
An international energy company on the proposed acquisition of a multibillion dollar interest in a company holding upstream oil and gas concession interests in Brazil
An international oil and gas company on the proposed acquisition of producing and exploration assets in the North Sea
A major European energy company in a swap transaction involving producing assets in the North Sea
A private equity partnership with respect to its investment in a company indirectly holding an upstream oil and gas interest offshore Equatorial Guinea
An international energy company with respect to the sale of its interest in exploration and development assets in Iraq
Independent investment companies with respect to an investment in a group of companies holding onshore exploration assets (including shale gas assets) in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and the UK
A UK oil and gas exploration company in the review of a draft joint operating agreement (which included a review of the corresponding and signed petroleum agreement and association contract) relating to an exploration block offshore Morocco
An Azeri company in the review of a draft joint operating agreement and related documents relating to an exploration block offshore Israel
A U.S. independent energy company with respect to a proposed joint venture for a coal-bed methane project in Turkey
Credentials
- University of Cambridge, M.A.,
- University of Cambridge, M.Phil.
- College of Law, London, LPC
- Selected to the London Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2015
- Member: Law Society of England and Wales
- Member: New York State Bar Association
- New York
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
- French (proficient)