George Venables

Of Counsel

gvenables@gibsondunn.com
T: +44 20 7131 0359
London

George Venables is an Of Counsel in the London office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions, Energy and Infrastructure and Oil and Gas Practice Groups.

George has a broad corporate practice advising on the full spectrum of commercial transactions, with a focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors, including relating to upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas, power, energy infrastructure and renewables and energy transition infrastructure. He has extensive experience advising a range of clients on the full spectrum of mergers and acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, project development, and joint ventures both in the UK and internationally.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, George worked in the London office of another major global law firm.

Selected experience*:

TotalEnergies on the merger of its UKCS upstream business with NEO NEXT to become the leading shareholder (47.5%) in the expanded NEO NEXT+ joint venture, alongside HitecVision (28.875%) and Repsol (23.625%), forming the largest independent oil and gas producer in the UKCS
MidOcean Energy, an LNG company formed and managed by EIG Global Energy Partners, on its acquisition of a 20% interest in PETRONAS’ interest in the LNG Canada Project, by way of acquisition of a 20% interest in the North Montney Upstream Joint Venture and a 20% interest in the North Montney LNG Limited Partnership, and the entry into associated joint venture arrangements to govern such investment
EIG Global Energy Partners on its acquisition of a 25% equity interest stake in Repsol Upstream, a newly formed global oil and gas exploration and production company holdings Repsol’s global upstream oil and gas portfolio, for US$4.8 billion, and the associated joint venture arrangements
Chevron on the disposal of its UK North Sea upstream business to Ithaca Energy for US$1.6billion
ExxonMobil on the sale of material Nigerian oil and gas assets to Seplat Energy
ExxonMobil on the disposal of upstream and midstream assets in Chad and Cameroon, including its interest in the Chad-Cameroon pipeline, to Savannah Energy plc
Navitas Petroleum on the acquisition of a 65% stake in the Sea Lion project, an oil field located offshore of the Falkland Islands, via the acquisition of Premier Oil Exploration and Production from Harbour Energy and participating interests from Rockhopper Exploration
SierraCol Energy (a portfolio company of the Carlyle Group) on its US$825 million acquisition of Occidental Petroleum’s entire onshore oil and gas portfolio in Colombia
The Carlyle Group on the proposed acquisition of a portfolio of gas-weighted exploration and production assets in Italy, Egypt, and Croatia from Energean
RWE on its acquisition of the Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind portfolio from Vattenfall
RWE on the sale of a 49% equity interest in the Dogger Bank South wind farm project to Masdar, and entry into the associated joint venture arrangements
GIC on its investment, alongside Partners Group, TPG Rise Climate and Mubadala, into Techem, an international provider of digitally enabled solutions for the real estate sector, at an enterprise value of around EUR 6.7 billion
KKR on its £3.4billion acquisition of Encavis, a German headquartered independent power producer with solar parks and onshore wind farms in 12 European countries
ADNOC and OMV on acquiring Nova Chemicals from Mubadala for $13.4 billion
GIC on acquiring an approximately 45% shareholding in GasLog, an international owner, operator, and manager of LNG carriers, from BlackRock
Chevron on the US$900 million sale of its refinery and fuels network in South Africa and Botswana to Sinopec

* Some of these representations occurred prior to George’s association with Gibson Dunn.

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