Reza Dadbakhsh is a corporate partner in Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's London office.
He advises on M&A, joint ventures, projects and commercial arrangements across the energy, infrastructure and automotive sectors.
Reza advises on cross-border transactions and projects in numerous jurisdictions across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. He represents major corporates, private capital investors, traders, utilities and independent companies on strategic investments, partnerships and project developments.
He has extensive experience across the upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas value chain, advising on M&A, projects, commercial arrangements and commodity trading activities from exploration and development through to operations, divestment, decommissioning and energy transition. His practice includes LNG and gas infrastructure, carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen and ammonia, biofuels and green fuels.
Reza is Global Co-Head of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's Automotive Sector Group and advises clients across the automotive and mobility sectors on strategic investments, joint ventures, commercial arrangements and electrification opportunities. He has particular experience in batteries and electrification, gigafactory developments, EV charging infrastructure and the broader EV value chain.
Areas of Focus
- Cross-border M&A and joint ventures
- Energy and infrastructure transactions
- Project development and commercial arrangements
- Upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas
- LNG and gas infrastructure
- Commodity trading
- Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
- Hydrogen and ammonia
- Biofuels and green fuels
- Automotive and mobility
- Batteries and electrification
- EV charging infrastructure
Publications
" The oil price collapse – UK regulators to the rescue?", The In-House Lawyer Summer 2016
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- a consortium on the proposed acquisition of 51% of National Grid's gas distribution business
- BP on agreements with Kosmos Energy to acquire a 62% working interest, including operatorship, of Kosmos’ exploration blocks in Mauritania and a 32.49% effective working interest in Kosmos’ Senegal exploration blocks
- BP on its acquisition of additional interests in the US$12 billion West Nile Delta gas field, offshore Egypt from Dea
- E.ON SE on its disposal by way of auction of a package of Norwegian CS assets for US$1.6 billion to Letter 1 including drafting the sale and purchase agreement and the escrow agreement
- a confidential client on the restructuring of their joint venture arrangements in the North Sea and on the decommissioning of its interests in the associated offshore platform and pipeline infrastructure
- BG Group on the auction process and documentation for the sale of its equity interests and senior debt in the Chilean LNG regasification terminal GNL Quintero to Spanish national gas grid operator Enagas S.A for US$352 million
- Chevron on the sale of downstream fuels marketing and aviation businesses in the Caribbean and Central and South America
- BG Group in relation to various matters relating to Egyptian LNG including gas supply, tolling and the structuring, negotiation and drafting of long-term offtake terms
- a confidential client in the proposed acquisition of shale assets in Poland
Sectors
Background
Education
LLB - St Hugh's College, Oxford– 2002
BCL (LLM) – Oxford – 2003
LLM – NYU – 2005
Admissions
New York 2007
England and Wales 2009
Reza is fluent in English and Farsi.
