Adam Langridge Partner

Adam Langridge is a partner in the Energy & Utilities Practice based in the London office. He has extensive experience advising on wholesale energy and carbon trading, power purchase and fuel supply contracts, fossil fuel and renewable power generation projects and upstream oil and gas. He joined Squire Sanders as a partner from EDF Energy plc, where he was promoted to the role of principal solicitor, energy branch. Adam trained at Denton Hall and qualified into the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure team. During his time at Denton Hall he spent a period working in Tokyo, Japan as a seconded legal adviser to Nissho Iwai Corporation.

Representative Experience

• Advising an international commodities trading platform, in relation to coal trading issues and on its alliance with leading commodities exchange, ICE, for the development of a financially-settled coal futures product.
• Advising an international commodities trading platform on aspects of its standard coal trading documentation and the terms of an ISDA-based annex.
• Advising EDF Energy on a long-term, structured energy purchase contract with a value of 1 billion euros with a nuclear generation business.
• Advising EDF Energy on the development and negotiation of a bespoke master cross-netting agreement.
• Advising on energy, commodity and emissions trading documentation and associated credit support documentation, including under ISDA, GTMA, IETA and EFET.
• Advising the developer of a 200,000 tonne/annum bio-ethanol production facility on structured feedstock supply contracts for wheat, long-term off-take arrangements with a privately owned international commodities business, storage and haulage arrangements and a by-product sales agreement with Europe’s largest coal-fired power station. The project was later abandoned due to volatile wheat prices.
• Advising a multinational chemicals company in relation to its long-term take-or-pay arrangements for the supply of up to 11 million m3 per annum of hydrogen gas via a dedicated high-pressure pipeline located in Belgium.
• Advising a state-owned integrated utility company in Europe in relation to its joint bidding and joint venture arrangements for participation in the UK’s Round 3 offshore wind programme.
• Advising a privately owned multinational chemicals business on its long-term arrangements for purchasing carbon emissions credits.
• Advising EDF Energy plc in relation to the disposal by it of a 33 percent equity interest in the 688MW gas-fired Medway Power Station to Scottish & Southern Energy plc and the acquisition of additional equity (from administrators) in Barking Power Ltd, the owner of a 1000MW CCGT plant located on the outskirts of London.
• Advising EDF Energy in relation to its arrangements for long-term sales and purchases of coal with UK-based and international coal suppliers.
• Advising EDF Energy on the power purchase agreement relating to the output of the 90MW Kentish Flats offshore wind farm.
• Advising an AIM-listed renewable energy project developer in relation to its acquisition and development of a UK-based biodiesel production business. Later advising the acquired biodiesel business in connection with the contractual arrangements for the supply of biodiesel to an on-site generation project located in one of the UK’s main commercial ports.
• Advising a multinational energy company in relation to its power purchase agreement with the operator of a 48MW on-shore wind farm located in Scotland.
• Advising a multinational integrated utility company on aspects of its proposed purchase (later abandoned) of a brownfield site in Wales with consent for the construction of a CCGT power station.
• Advising a multinational energy company in relation to its acquisition of 24MW onshore wind farm project located in Scotland.
• Advising an energy-from-waste business in relation to the negotiation and drafting of a power purchase agreement.
• Advising various infrastructure project developers (including the developer of a landmark hotel and apartment project in London's St Pancras station) in relation to their arrangements for electricity connection and supply.
• Advising a Finland based oil and gas company in relation to the disposal by it of certain of its oil and gas interests in the Middle East and UK North Sea. Advising several other purchasers and sellers in connection with acquisitions and disposals of oil and gas interests throughout the world.
• Advising a US global energy company in connection with its India off-shore oil and gas operations, in particular on several disputes that had arisen concerning the terms of joint venture and production sharing documentation.
• Advising a UK independent oil and gas exploration company in connection with a pipeline construction and tie-in project involving oil and gas facilities located in the North Sea.
• Advising a Brazil based subsidiary of a US-based global energy company in connection with the terms of the gas supply agreement in respect to a project involving the sale, purchase and supply of gas from Bolivia to Brazil.
• Advising an India based corporation on the terms of coal supply agreements for its coke manufacturing operations in India and in relation to the terms of its coke supply agreements.
• Advising Transco in relation to the unbundling of its gas storage business from its transportation business, including consultation with UK gas shippers as part of the regulated process and redrafting relevant sections of the Network Code.
• Advising the electricity regulators for Northern Ireland (Ofreg) and the Government of the Republic of Ireland (Department of Public Enterprise) in relation to the preparation for the implementation of the first European Electricity Directive, including advising on the drafting of primary and secondary legislation, licenses and other aspects of the regulatory framework.