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Charlie Denham

Senior Associate

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Charlie Denham

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
6 Queens Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4ZT
United Kingdom
Languages English

Charlie is a Senior Associate in the Energy & Climate Change Team. He specialises in upstream oil and gas mergers and acquisitions, projects and supply chain matters. He is experienced in acting for a broad range of oil and gas companies (international, private equity funded and independent), international oilfield services contractors and equipment manufacturers. 

Charlie also advises clients on carbon capture, utilisation and storage and hydrogen joint ventures and projects, reflecting his oil and gas clients diversification as part of the energy transition. 

With more than 450 energy and climate change lawyers, including over 100 partners, the CMS Energy and Climate Change practice is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Led from its centres of excellence such as London and Aberdeen, the practice works across 75 offices globally. Building on 40 years of experience advising on power, oil & gas and renewables through to energy disputes, emerging areas and Energy Transition, CMS is uniquely placed to ensure clients receive advice best suited to their commercial needs and to our collective future.

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Relevant experience

  • BP on the disposal of exploration interests in the UKCS. 
  • ConocoPhillips on the completion of the sale of their UK oil and gas exploration and production business to Chrysaor.
  • An international oil and gas company on the intra-group transfer of interests in two UKCS oilfields. 
  • Various oil and gas supply chain clients on drafting supply chain contracts; bid reviews and negotiations. 
  • An energy sector management consultant in relation to the development of a carbon capture, utilisation and storage and hydrogen project in the UK. 
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Education

2014 – LPC / LLM, University of Law, London

2012 – GDL, BPP Law School, London

2010 – LL.B, University of Aberdeen 
 

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Expertise

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23/01/2024
Key oil and gas provisions of the Energy Act 2023 become effective from...
The Energy Act 2023 (the “Energy Act”) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. The Energy Act has been years in the making and represents a significant step in the UK's efforts to achieve net zero...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
23/01/2024
OEUK Decommissioning Security Agreements – Default Provisions
It is crucial to the operation of the arrangements set out in decommissioning security agreements (“DSA”) that parties post the required security within the timelines set out in the DSA as well as...
Law-Now Energy Disputes
19/12/2023
Meeting the Decommissioning Challenge in Southeast Asia
Following on from our previous Law Now on the decommissioning regime in the UK (see our Law-Now here and here, this Law-Now considers the issues and challenges facing the offshore decommissioning sector...
Law-Now Oil & Gas
03/11/2023
OEUK DSA – Calculation and Payment of Licensee’s share of De­com­mis­sion­ing...
Parties to decommissioning security agreements are likely to be entering into an important phase of the typical process contained in these agreements. This year in particular, due to high inflation (and...
Law-Now Oil & Gas
14/09/2023
Energy Transition 2023
As the world seeks to balance energy security and affordability with the broadly agreed imperative to address carbon emissions, this report seeks to provide a timely update on how major oil and gas companies are navigating the energy transition based on an analysis of their published data.
Publication
30/08/2023
OEUK Decommissioning Security Agreements – Ap­prov­al/Ob­jec­tion of Proposed...
As discussed in our previous Law Now (see our OEUK Decommissioning Security Agreements – the Proposed Plan Law Now here), Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has published two template Decommissioning Security...
Law-Now Tax
30/06/2023
OEUK Decommissioning Security Agreements – the Proposed Plan
Liability generally for decommissioning offshore in­fra­struc­tureOne of the conditions on which offshore petroleum production licences are granted in the UK is a requirement that, once production comes...
Law-Now Oil & Gas
14/06/2021
Energy Transition: The evolving role of oil & gas companies in a net-zero...
After an extraordinary year of health and economic challenges, the global oil and gas sector has an essential role to play in the economic recovery. The same could however be said of any economic recovery and expansion over the past 100 years – during this time oil and gas companies have provided most of the primary energy that has fuelled huge economic growth. But this time does look different. The oil and gas sector will power economic recovery not just through oil and gas exploration and production, but also (and perhaps counter-in­tu­it­ively to some) through facilitating the transition to a lower-carbon economy and eventually a net zero future. This report presents a wide-ranging review of the role of oil and gas companies in that future.
Publication
29/01/2020
Energy Transition: Evolution or Revolution?
The energy transition is upon us – Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion continue to generate more headlines than Greenpeace and, in Europe at least, there is significant societal pressure to move...
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