PRACTICE AREAS

Oil and gas projects are often complex and present a number of legal and commercial challenges. Our oil and gas team has the knowledge and experience to help clients with these issues. Our attorneys have decades of experience assisting and advising clients in upstream, midstream, and downstream operations in blocks and fields across the continent.

Pan African Law Chambers’ oil and gas practice draws on both the practice lawyers’ extensive experience and the knowledge of their colleagues from other practices to provide our clients with unusually broad service and advice.

Our lawyers have firsthand knowledge of the majority of the operational issues confronting oil and gas companies, refiners, traders, marketers, service companies, governments, and regulators, in addition to their strong technical abilities. The head of the oil and gas practice is a frequent commentator on oil and gas issues in the general media as well as in industry publications.

OUR EXPERTISE

• Compliance and Regulation
• Dispute Resolution
• Licensing and permitting
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Pipelines, terminals and storage facilities
• Production sharing agreements, licensing (royalty and taxation regimes) and risk-sharing agreements
• Processing and storage
• Risk advisory, including sanctions and export controls, and human rights
• Sale and Purchase Agreements
• Structuring of oil and gas operations, including joint ventures and other commercial arrangements
• Taxation of petroleum products
• Transport, including shipping, refining and marketing of petroleum products
• EAC / COMESA Treaty Law

Our international trade and investment practice assist clients in the public and private sectors in achieving their commercial objectives. We use trade and investment expertise from a variety of legal disciplines to assist clients in capitalizing on global opportunities in their industry.

OUR EXPERTISE

• African Continental Free Trade Agreement
• EAC / COMESA Treaty Law
• African Growth and Opportunity Act
• Anti-dumping and Countervailing
• Business immigration
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
• Competition Policy and Law
• Company formation, registration and secretarial support.
• Corporate and tax structures.
• Cross-border financial services
• Customs Union Protocol
• Dispute Resolution
• Due Diligence
• Economic Sanctions
• Export/Import Controls
• Formation of joint ventures and partnerships
• Generalized Systems of Preference
• Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) to trade
• Regulatory requirements for imports/exports including consumer law, product liability, obtaining approvals and engagement with regulators
• Standards and Measures
• Trade Policy
• The Treaty Establishing the East African Community WTO processes
• Trade Facilitation
• World Trade Organization
• World Bank and International Financial Institutions

Our Foreign Relations and Investment law Practice provides innovative services to facilitate and promote foreign investments, foreign relations and removal of sanctions and compliance with international law. In so doing our company seeks to promote African governments as an investment destination and a good global citizen and , to capacitate government and stateowned entities to develop and implement policies and laws key to African countries taking their key position in the global commune and attracting foreign invest.

OUR EXPERTISE

• Investment Promotion and Facilitation
• Lobbying for the lifting of sanctions against governments
• Promoting African governments as an investment destination
• Creating an Investment Promotion Strategy and Action Plan
• Presentation to governments, international organisations and investors
• Investment Promotion and Facilitation
• Create and implement strategies and programs for aftercare.
• Creating image profiling and investment promotion campaigns
• Creating investment opportunities and sector profiles
• Take part in foreign relations and investment
  missions; and
• Provide capacity building and training
• Assist with the implementation of international laws
  and obligations

Pan African Law Chambers specializes in environmental law. Our environmental attorneys represent a diverse range of clients, including government and regulatory agencies, as well as private sector clients. This allows them to view environmental law from a variety of perspectives and influence its evolution.

We have a large environmental litigation team and our legal experts provide advice on all aspects of environmental law, including prosecution representation. We offer services ranging from regulatory compliance counselling to crisis response and the management of environmental liabilities in corporate, real estate, and financial transactions.

Our clients—landowners, oil and gas companies, chemical and product manufacturers, construction contractors and subcontractors, real estate developers, lenders, insurers, and public and private entities — rely on us for our thorough understanding of the laws and regulations on the federal, state, and local level. Our environmental attorneys provide you with practical business-oriented advice on the basis of existing and anticipated legal requirements, and regulatory practice.

We advise on risk and remediation, project management, and specialized environmental issues.

OUR EXPERTISE

• Fiduciary duties, transactions involving conflicts of interest, standards of conduct, director independence, corporate social responsibility, and ethics
• Oversight and risk management.
• Public disclosures.
• Governance and compliance issues related to mergers, acquisitions, and other major transactions.
• Internal controls assessments, legal compliance and investigations including those of whistleblower complaints and other sensitive matters.
• Conduct of shareholder meetings, strategic responses to shareholder proposals, proxy statements, and proxy solicitation.
• Vote recommendations of proxy advisory firms.
• Executive compensation, incentive compensation plans, and senior executive employment contracts.
• Assistance with annual board and CEO evaluations.
• Legal issues concerning financial reporting, financial restatements, and related accounting and auditing matters.
• Insurance coverage counseling, including D&O policy analysis, review of emerging issues, and assistance with policy placements to maximize protection for companies and board members.
• Investor relations matters.
• Review of corporate charters, bylaws, defensive measures, and board governance policies.

Pan African Law Chambers recognizes the significance of establishing and maintaining effective and efficient corporate governance measures. We have extensive experience with public and private dialogues on governance, oversight, compliance, and shareholder engagement.

We collaborate with boards of directors and audit committees, special committees, individual directors, and senior executives on a variety of corporate governance, investigation, and related issues.

OUR EXPERTISE

• Climate Change law and policy
• Circular Economy law and policy
• Environmental Compliance
• Environmental disputes
• Environmental Impact Assessments
• Environmental Land Use Development
• Environmental Risk in business and Real Estate
• Environmental Litigation
• Environmental Remediation and Cost Recovery
• Environmental Law and Policy
• Multilateral Environmental Agreements
• Regulatory investigations and enforcement
• Environmental risk management

Pan African Law Chambers Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice, one of the largest in East Africa, has achieved results  in a wide range of controversy work, including the East African Court of Justice, national courts, trial and appellate, as well as through arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Our litigation and dispute resolution lawyers handle complex commercial litigation, class actions, international litigation, environmental and climate change litigation, liability and investment disputes on a regular basis. We apply our extensive experience to matters in key industries such as construction, government contracts, oil and gas, energy power, aviation, and maritime.

At Pan African Law Chambers, we understand the significance of selecting the best lawyer and law firm to handle litigation or controversies that may lead to litigation. Our litigation attorneys have extensive casehandling experience and can draw on broad subject matter knowledge across the firm to support your positions as needed.

OUR EXPERTISE

• Commercial matters
• Competition
• Constitutional and administrative law matters
• Consumer protection
• Energy disputes
• Environmental disputes
• Trade and Investment disputes
• Regulatory matters