LONDON — Former BG Group General Counsel Stefan Ricketts has joined Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.’s energy practice in London and will later move to the international firm’s Hong Kong office, where he will continue the ongoing expansion of the firm’s global energy practice.
Ricketts began his legal career at another major international law firm, and worked in Indonesia before joining BG in Singapore in 1999. He later returned to the United Kingdom and was promoted to deputy general counsel in 2000. Two years later, Ricketts became the head of BG’s legal department and was named general counsel in 2005. He managed a global group of 100 lawyers working in nearly 20 countries and served as a key participant in handling legal issues and overseeing major capital projects and significant commercial agreements.
After working with Fulbright lawyers, Ricketts said he was drawn by the international law firm’s focused commitment to energy-related work, its global network of strategically placed offices from which to serve clients worldwide and collegial atmosphere among legal talent.
Fulbright's global energy practice includes more than 220 lawyers who regularly are involved in international and domestic energy matters. In addition to energy transactions, the firm's energy group, which has more than 70 years of experience, regularly assists clients with dispute resolution, regulatory matters, intellectual property and environmental issues.
Ricketts will work with a team of energy practitioners in London, including other new additions such as Jeremy Sheldon, Susan Farmer and Andrew Hart.
Farmer has more than 15 years of experience advising major oil and gas companies and has advised on international matters ranging from the negotiation of license/concession agreements, production sharing contracts, joint operating agreements and unitisation agreements to the structuring of major oil, gas, LNG and power projects.
Hart has significant projects experience across a wide variety of sectors in Mainland China, Thailand, the Philippines, Korea, Australia, Pakistan, India, Azerbaijan and the Middle East. He has advised on greenfield project financings, upstream and downstream LNG projects and secondary market M&A transactions in relation to project assets.
Sheldon has provided legal counsel for a $100 million project to construct, finance and operate one of the largest waste-to-energy and recycling projects of its kind in the UK, the financing of a thermal independent power project in India and the formation of two joint ventures in the petrochemical sector with assets in Italy, Germany and Canada. He has advised energy companies in regions ranging from Africa to the Middle East, and countries from Canada to Kazakhstan.
Founded in 1919, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. is a full-service international law firm with nearly 1,000 lawyers in 16 locations in Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Munich, New York, Riyadh, San Antonio, St. Louis and Washington, D.C.