Lewis McDonald

Practice Areas

- Mergers and Acquisitions

- Joint Ventures and Investments

- Corporate

- ESG and sustainability

- Climate Change

Career

Lewis is a partner and the global head of our energy practice, based in London. Lewis has over 20 years' experience, advising companies on their energy projects around the world and has experience across the energy value chain (particularly upstream oil & gas, LNG, power and renewables) in developed markets and emerging markets. Lewis has been based in Perth (2001-2004), London (2005-2008), Hong Kong (2008), Singapore (2008-2013), Korea (2013 – 2017), Tokyo (2017-2019) and London (2019-). He has a strong track record of building long-lasting relationships with clients around the world, working on market leading deals and building teams of lawyers. Lewis has worked on secondments to BP's gas & power team in London and Epic Energy in Perth (then Australia's largest gas transmission company). He has spent over 10 years in our Asian offices, helping to build our business across the region. He was part of the team that started our market-leading Southeast Asian energy practice when he was based in Singapore between 2008 and 2013, he built our Seoul office (and our market-leading Korean energy practice) between 2013 and 2017 and he was the Regional Head of our Asia Corporate Practice between 2016 and 2019. Lewis is consistently ranked as a top tier energy & projects lawyer by key independent legal directories such as Chambers and Legal 500. Lewis is qualified to practice English law.

For additional information on Lewis's professional background, please visit: https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/our-people/l/lewis-mcdonald