Nick Moon

Nick is a partner in the Energy & Natural Resources Group, with a focus on the trading, financing, and transportation of physical commodities. He advises trading companies, financial institutions, and miners on dispute resolution and the negotiation of commercial agreements in the energy and natural resources sector.

Experience

Representative matters

Advising an international energy company on the negotiation of LNG master sale and purchase agreements with various counterparties.

Advising a commodities trading house on a transaction involving the sale, transportation and storage of wheat cargoes in South West Africa, including issues relating to title and security over the cargoes.

Advising on the title, storage and sale and purchase aspects of an inventory monetisation transaction in respect of oil products stored at two UK oil refineries.

Advising an international energy company on the negotiation of LNG master sale and purchase agreements with various counterparties.

Advising on the title, storage and sale and purchase aspects of an inventory monetisation transaction in respect of oil products stored at two UK oil refineries.

Advising an international oil company on its general terms and conditions for the sale and purchase of various oil products, including crude oil, condensate and LPG.

Preparing standard form warehousing documentation for a major international bank in connection with base metal repo transactions for use in global warehouses.

Advising a renewable energy producer on a long-term offtake and prepayment for circular pyrolysis oil with an oil major.

Preparing standard form agreements for the sale and purchase of coal and iron ore for a commodities trading house.

Advising an international oil company in relation to an on-vessel repo transaction for HSFO and gasoil for delivery into the Middle East.

Drafting a metal trader’s general terms and conditions for the sale and purchase of metal concentrates.

Drafting general terms and conditions for the sale and purchase of marine fuels for a marine fuel supplier.

Advising a renewable energy producer on a collaboration and prepayment transaction relating to the production of biomass at a facility to be built in Singapore.

Drafting, negotiating and advising on allocated and unallocated agreements for the storage of precious metals in UK vault.

Acting for one of the world’s leading energy traders in an LCIA arbitration and related English Court proceedings in connection with claims arising out of the client’s counterparty’s failure to deliver a number of LNG cargoes.

Acting for an international energy trading company in an English Court claim in connection with the client’s counterparty’s failure to open a contractually compliant letter of credit.

Advising on live disputes (issues relating to force majeure, cargo rejections and contractual mismatches in string sales) concerning shipments of various commodities (including LNG, oil products, metals and grain).

Defending a commodities trading house in an LCIA arbitration against claims arising under a long-term coal supply agreement in connection with the designation of Russian Railways under UK sanctions.

Acting for an investment management company in a successful application to the English Court for a worldwide freezing injunction in connection with the issuance of fraudulent warehouse receipts.

Defending an agricultural commodities trader in a series of GAFTA arbitrations arising out of the transhipment of grain from ports in the Ukraine.

Defending a coal trading company in an LMAA arbitration and English Court proceedings concerning alleged misdelivery claims arising out of the insolvency of an Indian trader.

Acting for an oil trader in English Court proceedings against vessel owners in connection with the contamination of a fuel oil cargo whilst on board the owners’ vessel.