Oliver Bacon
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Oliver Bacon

Partner

Email

oliver.bacon@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 203 088 3387

Offices

London

V-CARD
Oliver's work involves acting for funds, corporates and state-owned enterprises on a broad range of transactions including on domestic and international M&A, joint ventures, commercial contracting as well as regulatory and advisory work across the hydrocarbon, chemicals, and renewable energy value chain.

Oliver was seconded to BG Group where he worked on a range of corporate matters in relation to their hydrocarbon and power assets. Oliver has also performed the role of acting general counsel to Murphy Oil Corporation’s UK downstream businesses. Oliver was on secondment to the firm’s Amsterdam office from September 2016 until January 2017. Directory feedback on Oliver from clients include “He is exceptionally smart in his understanding of energy and M&A is terrific. He feels like an extension of the deal team.” Chambers 2022 (Energy and Natural Resources).

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

Oil & Gas:
  • A national oil company on its investments in Poland’s refining, wholesale, and jet fuel sectors.
  • TotalEnergies on a number of matters including on the acquisition of Tullow Oil's interest in the Lake Albert Development Project and on the acquisition of ENGIE’s portfolio of LNG assets.
  • A Crown corporation on its acquisition of Shell’s upstream interests in the Corrib gas field.
  • Exolum on its acquisition of Inter Terminals from Inter Pipeline.
  • A multinational energy corporation on the sale of the 75,000 bbl/d Whitegate oil refinery to Irving Oil.
  • Gunvor Group in respect of its acquisition from TotalEnergies of an interest in the Total Parco fuel retail joint venture, in Pakistan.
Renewables:
  • Masdar on its purchase of a 49% stake in the Dogger Bank South offshore wind projects from RWE AG.
  • Omnes Capital on the acquisition of Integrum Renewable Energy, a battery storage and solar PV developer.
  • Masdar on its acquisition of a majority stake in renewables developer Arlington Energy.
  • A Crown corporation and Reventus Power on a number of transactions with respect to its global portfolio of wind projects.
  • SN Power on its proposed portfolio investment programme with respect to its hydropower portfolio across Asia and Africa.
Chemicals:
  • OCI Global on the USD2.05bn sale of its global methanol business to Methanex Corporation and on the USD2.35 billion sale of its clean ammonia project in Texas to Woodside Energy.
  • LyondellBasell on its investment in and offtake arrangements with Quality Circular Polymers, a polymer reprocessing plant in the Netherlands.
  • An integrated energy and chemicals company on its acquisition from Neste of its global NEXBASE base oils business.

Pro bono

  • Oliver has been leading the firm in London in its response to the Ukraine crisis, including setting up a project to second lawyers to refugee reception centres in Poland to provide legal support.

Published Work

  • Bacon, Oliver (2023) "Investing in the Energy Transition: how private capital is fast tracking the journey to net zero (2023) – Transition Economist"
  • Bacon, Oliver (2022) "The British Energy Security Strategy"
  • Bacon, Oliver (2020) "Petroleum Economist"

Recognition

“He is exceptionally smart in his understanding of energy and M&A is terrific. He feels like an extension of the deal team.”
Chambers 2022 (Energy and Natural Resources)

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2010

Academic

LPC, College of Law, 2008

LLB European (Hons), University of Exeter, 2007

LLM, Universität des Saarlandes, 2007

Other qualifications: Oliver is a native English speaker. He also speaks German and Dutch.

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Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.