Nick Moon

Nick is a partner in the Energy & Natural Resources Group, with a focus on the trading, financing, and transportation of LNG, crude oil and oil products, metals, coal, renewables, and other physical commodities. He advises trading companies, producers, buyers and financial institutions on transactions and dispute resolution in the energy and natural resources sector.

Experience

Representative matters

Advising a global commodities trader on a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement for delivery of multiple cargoes per annum on a DES Korea basis.

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

Advising a global investment bank on the expansion of its LNG trading desk, including the negotiation of LNG master sale and purchase agreements with various counterparties.

Transactional Experience

Advising a global commodities trader on a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement for delivery of multiple cargoes per annum on a DES Korea basis.

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

Advising a global investment bank on the expansion of its LNG trading desk, including the negotiation of LNG master sale and purchase agreements with various counterparties.

Advising an investment management firm on the establishment of its battery metals trading desk, including due diligence and the negotiation of warehouse agreements and sale contracts with various counterparties.

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.

Advising on an inventory monetisation transaction in respect of oil products stored at two UK oil refineries.

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

Drafting general terms and conditions for the sale and purchase of metal concentrates for a leading base metals trading house.

Advising an international energy company on the drafting and negotiation of crude oil storage and management agreements in India, Korea, and Singapore.

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 a renewable energy producer on a long-term offtake and prepayment agreement for circular pyrolysis oil.

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

Preparing a template LPG sale contract for delivery into China for a leading price reporting agency.

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 precious metals in UK vault.

Dispute Resolution Experience

Acting for a leading global energy trader in an LCIA arbitration and related English Court proceedings concerning a counterparty’s failure to deliver multiple LNG cargoes.

Advising a national oil company in connection with issues arising under its term sale contracts for crude oil and sulphur as a result of the Middle East conflict.

Defending a global energy trader 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.

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

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.

Advising the marketing arm of an LNG producer on issues including force majeure and failure to take under a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement.

Acting for an international energy trading company in an English Court claim concerning the counterparty’s failure to open a letter of credit for the purchase of a fuel oil cargo.

Advising a global commodities firm on its termination rights under a long-term agreement for the storage of oil products in Jordan.

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.

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.

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