Energy

Carbon:

  • Advice on carbon schemes and carbon taxes
  • Trading in Australian and international carbon permits
  • Mechanisms for passing on carbon costs

Energy Retailing:

  • Retailers’ electricity and gas sale agreements and related collateral for mass market customers
  • Retailers’ electricity and gas sale agreements and related collateral for commercial and industrial customers
  • Advice on disconnecting customers
  • Complaints handling
  • Hardship

Energy trading and risk management:

  • ISDA master agreements
  • Electricity derivatives
  • Ancillary services
  • Reallocations
  • ASX futures including broker agreements
  • Weather derivatives
  • Diesel and coal hedging
  • Spot and forward trading in environmental products
  • Derivative transaction reporting
  • Credit support arrangements including margining requirements
  • Risk management

Gas:

  • Gas derivatives
  • Market schedule variations
  • Gas supply agreements
  • Gas transportation and storage agreements

Insolvency Law:

  • Close-out netting under the ISDA master agreement
  • Enron and Lehman Brothers insolvencies
  • Advice on energy retailers’ exposure to insolvent customers
  • Queensland Nickel insolvency

Litigation and ADR:

  • Advice on contractual and regulatory disputes
  • Commercial dispute resolution
  • Dispute resolution under Chapter 8 of the National Electricity Rules

Mergers & acquisitions:

  • Acquisitions and disposals of energy businesses and companies
  • Joint ventures

Metering:

  • Advice on accreditation schemes
  • Advice on Chapter 7 of the National Electricity Rules including MSATs and the metrology procedures
  • Advice on service and installation rules and wiring rules
  • Metering agreements

Supply Agreements:

  • Power purchase agreements
  • Energy supply agreements for large industrial customers including smelters and paper mills
  • Price reviews under long term power purchase and energy supply agreements