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Graham Watson Graham Watson Partner Corporate and M&A Graham Watson is a highly regarded leading lawyer for oil & gas ILFR1000 2020 Primary practice Corporate and M&A 30/09/2021 Graham Watson | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer About Graham Watson <div> <p><strong>Graham is head of our global&nbsp;oil and gas group. </strong></p> <p>His practice covers public and private mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and general corporate and commercial advice.</p> <p>Based in London, he has worked on a wide variety of natural resources matters across the globe, particularly in Latin America and Africa.</p> <p>A fluent Spanish speaker, Graham spent almost three years based in our Madrid office. He is one of our country partners for Brazil, Mexico and South Africa.</p> </div> Recent work <ul> <li>Advising Tullow Oil on the sale of its Ugandan interests to Total and on its convertible bond offering.</li> <li>Advising Occidental Petroleum on the international aspects of its US$57bn acquisition of Anadarko, including on the contingent US$8.8bn sale of Anadarko's African assets to Total.</li> <li>Advising Total on its: <ul> <li>US$7.45bn acquisition of Maersk Oil; and</li> <li>acquisition of Chevron Denmark.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Advising&nbsp;Neptune Energy on its&nbsp;US$3.9bn acquisition of ENGIE E&amp;P International and on its proposed acquisition of Edison&rsquo;s UK and Norwegian North Sea assets from Energean.</li> <li>Advising&nbsp;BG Group on its: <ul> <li>US$70bn recommended takeover&nbsp;by Shell;</li> <li>US$5bn Queensland Curtis liquefied natural gas pipeline sale to APA, Australia's largest gas infrastructure business; and</li> <li>US$1.7bn disposal&nbsp;to Cosan of its 60.1 per cent holding in Comg&aacute;s, Brazil&rsquo;s largest gas distribution company.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Advising Hess on its sale of Ghana upstream interests to Aker Energy.</li> <li>Advising on Wintershall Dea&rsquo;s &euro;4.0bn inaugural bond issue.</li> <li>Advising Pilgrim&rsquo;s Pride on its proposed US$952m acquisition of Kerry&rsquo;s Meats and Meals business in the UK and Ireland.</li> <li>Advising&nbsp;TelecityGroup on its proposed US$4.5bn all-share merger with InterXion.</li> <li>Advising on the settlement between the Karachaganak consortium (BG, Eni, Chevron and LUKoil) and the Republic of Kazakhstan, including the US$3bn transfer of 10 per cent of the consortium&rsquo;s interests to national oil company KazMunayGas.</li> <li>Advising&nbsp;Sinochem on its&nbsp;acquisition of Emerald Energy, the first London main market takeover by a Chinese state-owned enterprise.&nbsp;</li> <li>Advising on various transactions for Xstrata, including its unsolicited and contested C$20bn acquisition of Falconbridge, its Cerrej&oacute;n and Prodeco Colombian coal acquisitions and its rights issues.</li> </ul> Qualifications <p><strong>Education</strong></p> <ul> <li>Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK (MA in jurisprudence)</li> </ul> 30/09/2021 Graham Watson | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Contact Graham [email protected] London 100 Bishopsgate London T +44 20 7936 4000 F +44 20 7832 7001 30/09/2021 Graham Watson | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer .
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