Transforming tomorrow

The energy and natural resources sector faces fresh challenges every day. A highly volatile and uncertain market is fraught with increasing regulation, price shifts, supply chain issues and geopolitical disruptions. Clients are looking for new technologies, innovative ways of doing business, efficiencies and market breakthroughs to reshape their businesses and shift to a more sustainable future.

Our Energy and Natural Resources sector team understands this fundamental change and how it affects businesses in the power, renewables, mining, oil and gas, waste and water markets as well as new technologies driven by the energy transition.

With 400+ lawyers in over 40 countries, we are one of the largest and most impactful energy and natural resources practices in the world.

Our unrivalled Africa offering is the result of over 20 years of commitment and experience on the continent, combined with long‑standing relationships with leading national firms, many dating back to the 1990s.

These relationships have been brought together under DLA Piper Africa, a Swiss verein comprising 18 independent Africa law firms working with our two fully integrated Africa offices in Morocco and South Africa, and DLA Piper globally.

Our unique level of integration, and aligned operating and governance structures, means you benefit from:

• lawyers who understand the intricacies of doing business on the continent;
• seamless, centrally coordinated delivery of your multijurisdictional matters;
• pan-African insight underpinned by international best practice and local market knowledge;
• a service that conforms with our global standards on quality, conflicts, risk management, information security, confidentiality, sanctions and compliance; and
• our shared approach to knowledge management, pan-African legal training programme, and secondments between our offices in Africa and elsewhere.