Department profile
Baker Botts L.L.P.

Energy & Natural Resources

Asia-Pacific Guide 2026 : Asia-Pacific Region


Baker Botts L.L.P.

About

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Baker Botts’ Energy Practice advises clients across the globe wherever significant energy is produced, supporting high‑profile transactions, complex litigation, and regulatory matters. The team represents a broad range of energy industry participants, including domestic and international oil and gas operators, service companies, pipelines, processors, transporters, distributors, and marketers. The firm brings deep experience across upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors and across nearly all energy types, including oil and gas, LNG, mining and metals, power, renewables, and hydrogen.

Baker Botts’ Singapore-based energy team extends this global capability throughout the Asia‑Pacific region, where it has helped clients develop and execute some of the region’s most innovative and complex energy projects and transactions. The team is widely recognized for guiding clients on greenfield project development and financing, major acquisitions and divestitures in the energy and natural resources sectors, and sophisticated project and corporate structuring. Through an integrated, multidisciplinary approach and deep industry knowledge across practice areas, Baker Botts delivers comprehensive advice and representation across the full energy spectrum.

To learn more about our practice, visit: www.bakerbotts.com/services/industries/energy

Chambers Review

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Energy & Natural Resources - Asia-Pacific Region

Band 4

Band 4


What the Team is Known For

Baker Botts fields a strong bench of prominent energy lawyers, combining the firm's global sectoral strength with a strong Singapore-based team. The practice is particularly adept at handling LNG matters, as well as advising on energy transition issues. The team has strong multi-jurisdictional expertise and is especially knowledgeable in the Indonesian market. The team is also experienced in handling matters relating to Japan, Malaysia, Australia, China and Pakistan.

Notable practitioners

Michael Harrison and Daniel Reinbott are key contacts in Singapore.

Work Highlights

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  • Baker Botts advised the Papua New Guinea Government on the negotiation and execution of a USD2.2 billion critical gas agreement with Twinza Oil for the first offshore hydrocarbons project in Papua New Guinea.

Strengths

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  • Their team has extensive knowledge of contractual positions in the region, both current and historical, a proactive and well-grounded negotiation approach and effectively positions us as a client.

    Energy & Natural Resources respondentAsia-Pacific

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