Evelyne Girio

Evelyne’s experience includes advising:

Upstream Oil and Gas

• The Carlyle Group on its:
  • US$825 million acquisition of Occidental’s entire onshore portfolio in Colombia
  • US$900 million acquisition of Shell Upstream Gabon and a 75% stake in Shell Gabon by portfolio company Assala Energy Holdings
• Assala Energy, a portfolio of The Carlyle Group, on the conduct of its day-to-day petroleum operations in Gabon for the period from 2017 to 2024, including the renegotiation with the Gabonese authorities of four production sharing contracts (PSC) and the negotiation of two new exploration PSCs
• Chevron North Sea on the sale of its interest in the Rosebank field UKCS to Equinor
• Indian Oil Corporation on the acquisition of a 17% participating interest in Mukhaizna Oil Field via an acquisition of a 100% equity stake in Shell Exploration & Production Oman Ltd.
• Uniper Exploration & Production on the sale of a 25% stake in the Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field to OMV
• An independent E&P company on a unitization process in the Eastern Mediterranean 
• An independent E&P company on its contemplated acquisition of upstream assets in Tunisia (Sfax Permit and Ras El Besh Concession) and Mozambique (Area A)*
• OMV Aktiengesellschaft on the acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources’ Tunisian subsidiaries*

Midstream Oil and Gas

• Chevron Nigeria Limited on its acquisition of Sasol, a South African oil company, out of a joint venture relating to the Escravos gas-to-liquids plant in Nigeria
• Chevron Nigeria Limited and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on a settlement and restructuring in connection with the Escravos gas-to-liquids project
• A Middle Eastern chemical company on the negotiation and drafting of a gas sales agreement, and related arrangements, for the sale of gas from Israel to Jordan*
• A national oil company on general corporate matters and issues relating to gas transportation and gas sales to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey*
• Oilfield services provider Halliburton on the legal and regulatory framework applicable to radioactive substances in the UK and the Falkland Islands in the context of the contemplated merger with Baker Hughes*
• A Middle Eastern oil and gas company on the potential acquisition of license and infrastructure interests in the North Sea*
• One of the world’s largest publicly listed oil and gas companies on its contemplated acquisition of assets in the North Sea*

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

• Glencore on its acquisition of the LNG business of Ørsted S/A
• The project sponsors on all aspects of the development of a floating LNG regasification terminal in Ghana*
• Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer on LNG marketing activities, including long-term LNG sales and transshipment arrangements in relation to the liquefied natural gas terminal of Montoir-de-Bretagne*

Power

• Africa50, an infrastructure investment fund founded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and African States, in relation to an indirect investment in the 461-megawatt Azura Edo independent power project in Nigeria and partnership with Actis, the majority shareholder of Azura Power
• Vitol SA on its contemplated acquisition of the entire share capital of 3CB SAS and Alpiq SAS, subsidiaries of Swiss Alpiq Holding AG dedicated to power generation in France*

Mining

• Norsk Hydro ASA on its agreement with Glencore, which will acquire 30% of Brazilian alumina refinery Hydro Alunorte, the world's largest alumina refinery, and Norsk Hydro ASA’s 5% ownership in the Brazilian bauxite producer Mineracão Rio do Norte
• A global mining company on its contemplated acquisition of an interest in the Ambatovy project, the largest mine in Madagascar  
• Simfer SA, Rio Tinto’s project company, on various aspects of the Simandou iron ore integrated project in Guinea, including the investment framework and the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) corporate law advice*

Renewables

• Microsoft in its investment in Konexa, an investment vehicle formed to undertake the construction, financing, operation, and management of various clean energy projects in Nigeria  
• RWE on its JV with Masdar for the development of the Dogger Bank South offshore wind project in the UK
• Power Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Inc. on the acquisition of a stake in the Desert Quartzite Solar and Storage project, located in California
• Power Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Inc. on the acquisition of a 50% stake in the Desert Quartzite project, a 300-MW solar generation and a 150-MW battery energy storage facility, located in California, USA
• Atlantic Power Corporation on the acquisition of Ridgeline Energy Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Eolfi S.A., a European renewable power development company majority-owned by Veolia Environnement S.A.*
• Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations on the acquisition of a majority interest in the Butendiek offshore wind farm from the Marguerite fund*

Hydrogen

• Confidential acqusition by a UAE NOC of a US based ammonia and European based nitrogen business
• Confidential acquisition by a UAE corporate of methanol and ammonia assets

Infrastructure

• Mittal Steel Holdings Limited in connection with the development of a US$1.3 billion iron ore mining development of the LAMCO project in Liberia and the associated rail, warehousing, and port infrastructure 
• A US private equity firm on its contemplated acquisition data centers based in the UK
• Antin Infrastructure on the acquisition of 2,200 telecom masts from Bouygues Telecom*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham