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As a key driver of the global economy, the energy sector faces tough regulatory, political and financial pressures. In China and the wider Asia region in particular, it continues to be a sector of constant change and development.

At CMS our team spans nearly  40 countries and has experience within every part of the energy sector, including upstream oil & gas, power generation (conventional and renewable), oil & gas and electricity networks, wholesale and retail, as well as cleantech.

Over the last 20 years, our experts have helped shape the sector by creating the legal frameworks upon which many of your markets are based.


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25/05/2023
North Sea Strikes and Force Ma­jeure
The latest in a series of strikes by oil & gas work­ers in the North Sea con­tin­ues to test the op­er­a­tion and ef­fic­acy of force ma­jeure (“FM”) pro­vi­sions in oil and gas in­dustry con­tracts.There is no...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
09/05/2023
Oil & Gas and Geo­therm­al: like steam, the oil & gas in­dustry could rise...
With a sig­ni­fic­ant num­ber of in­dustry con­fer­ences tar­get­ing geo­therm­al be­ing held around the world this year, the oil & gas in­dustry is start­ing to re­cog­nise the po­ten­tial of geo­therm­al as an en­ergy source...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
27/04/2023
Top IP de­vel­op­ments and pre­dic­tions across Asia-Pa­cific
We look back at the top de­vel­op­ments over the last 12 months in In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty (IP) and we look to the fu­ture by of­fer­ing our top pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year for busi­nesses op­er­at­ing across...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
09/03/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to ESG Com­pens­a­tion
In­cor­por­at­ing ESG KPIs in­to dir­ect­ors’ re­mu­ner­a­tionThe ur­gent need to place sus­tain­ab­il­ity at the heart of com­pany strategy is in­ex­tric­ably linked to in­cent­ives provided to its dir­ect­ors and em­ploy­ees. This...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
28/02/2023
New EU sanc­tions against Rus­sia
On 25 Feb­ru­ary 2023, one year after Rus­sia star­ted its in­va­sion of Ukraine, the EU ad­op­ted its tenth sanc­tions pack­age against Rus­sia. To­geth­er with the ex­ist­ing sanc­tions the European Com­mis­sion con­siders...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
16/02/2023
Will Co­ordin­ated European With­draw­al be the Death Knell of the En­ergy Charter...
On 22 Novem­ber 2022, the En­ergy Charter Con­fer­ence (the “Con­fer­ence”), the gov­ern­ing and de­cision-mak­ing body un­der the En­ergy Charter Treaty (the “ECT”), was sched­uled to vote on the text of...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
03/02/2023
On your radar | Is­sue 20 | Key em­ploy­ment is­sues to be aware of in­ter­na­tion­ally
Wel­come to the first edi­tion of On your radar for 2023, which high­lights ex­pec­ted em­ploy­ment law de­vel­op­ments over the year ahead.Changes range from big pic­ture con­cepts around fu­ture ways of work­ing...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
02/11/2022
APAC IP Up­date – Au­tumn 2022
China CNIPA re­leases China Pat­ent Sur­vey Re­port 2021 In Ju­ly 2022, the China Na­tion­al In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Ad­min­is­tratiion (CNIPA) re­leased the China Pat­ent Sur­vey Re­port 2021. The data in the re­port...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
08/09/2022
Man­aging Sup­ply Chain Risk - An up­date on leg­al and stra­tegic re­quire­ments...
In June 2021, BCG and CMS pub­lished a White Pa­per en­titled “Man­aging Sup­ply Chain Risk – A leg­al and stra­tegic per­spect­ive”. In view of the rising num­ber of laws ob­lig­at­ing com­pan­ies to pre­vent...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
10/08/2022
En­ergy – pun­it­ive in­terest where there is “Sig­ni­fic­ant Con­nec­tion with...
Sum­mary The Late Pay­ment of Com­mer­cial Debts (In­terest) Act 1998 im­plies a term in Eng­lish law con­tracts for the sup­ply of goods and/or ser­vices in the event of late pay­ment by the pur­chaser.  This ‘stat­utory...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
21/07/2022
CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest - 2022 Sum­mer Edi­tion
The sum­mer edi­tion of the CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest, a bi-an­nu­al pub­lic­a­tion that high­lights, ex­plores and ana­lyses the latest trends in the glob­al dis­pute-res­ol­u­tion sec­tor, is now pub­lished...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
04/07/2022
Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals and Re­act­ive Leg­al Lim­it­a­tions Per­vade the...
On 24 June 2022, the 53 Con­tract­ing Parties of the En­ergy Charter Treaty (ECT), a key mul­ti­lat­er­al treaty pro­tect­ing cross-bor­der en­ergy in­vest­ments that was ori­gin­ally con­cluded in 1991, reached a tent­at­ive...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
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