Sentences with phrase «against major oil companies»

The latest climate lawsuit filed against major oil companies by a local government is, once again, being handled by the plaintiff's firm behind similar lawsuits in California and New York City.

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, CNPC was bidding against established oil majors; the company not only cleanly outbid every rival, it also paid the cash strapped Kazakh government a generous bonus upfront and conducted feasibility studies on a pipeline to Xinjiang, offering the Kazakhs a non-Russian export line.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a lawsuit against five major oil companies, but records show cars used by the mayor's office are buying gas from the same companies.

-- LMAA Arbitration against major state oil company: See International Arbitration section above.

For over ten years, I was in a lawsuit against a major oil field services company.

Alison Wilson Qualified: 2005 Made partner: 2014 Key cases: Advising a major bank on an FCA investigation into its handling of PPI complaints; advising Standard Chartered Bank in its successful claim against the Ceylon Petroleum Company in connection with oil derivatives; advising a major bank on a multijurisdictional fraud perpetrated against it by a hedge fund manager, including civil claims and associated criminal investigations.

The Lawyer describes Emily as instructed in weighty disputes, citing her recent defence of Barclays against a $ 240m indemnity claim by UniCredit, the major Italian bank, in respect of a sophisticated structured finance deal between the two banks and that she acted for the UAE's Crescent Petroleum in knocking out an attempt by the National Iranian Oil Company to challenge an arbitration award against it.

They have defended pharmaceutical companies, major oil refineries and businesses in other industries against antitrust claims, both in criminal and civil proceedings.

Advising a major oil and gas company against an American contractor, in a dispute concerning a gas plant debottlenecking project.

Representing a major oil company in defence of claims threatened and brought in Europe alleging a breach of contract arising from invocation of force majeure as a result of the EU sanctions against Libya.

Mishcon de Reya's Fraud Defence Group has successfully struck out a High Court claim brought by Russian state - owned oil company PJSC Tatneft against four Ukrainian businessmen over allegations they misappropriated more than US$ 334 million owed from a major oil transaction.

While lawsuits against the oil and gas companies make major headlines in ND, hundreds more lawsuits filed against private citizens each year go unmentioned by the media.