Philip is a partner in Freshfields’ global transactions group, based in Singapore and leads both our energy and natural resources practice in Asia and our Indonesia practice.
He has nearly 25 years of experience advising corporates, financial investors and governments on their global acquisitions, joint ventures, project developments and divestments. Philip’s practice focuses primarily on three areas: transactions and projects in the energy and natural resources sector, including in the upstream and downstream oil & gas, LNG, chemicals, power (including renewables) and low carbon sub-sectors; Indonesian transactions and matters across all sectors; and emerging markets M&A. He is also a member of our Sustainability Leadership Team.
Since relocating to Southeast Asia more than 17 years ago, Philip has acted for clients on many of the most significant energy M&A transactions and projects in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, as well as a number of landmark and first of their kind transactions and projects in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia.
Philip is recognised as a leading lawyer by major legal directories. He is ranked Band 1 for International Energy & Natural Resources in Singapore, and recognized for his work in Indonesia in Projects & Energy, by Chambers and Partners, where clients say that he is 'commercial, pragmatic and a top energy lawyer in the region'. He is also named by Legal 500 as a 'Leading Individual' for Energy, and a 'Next Generation Lawyer' for Corporate and M&A, in Singapore. Philip is an occasional lecturer at Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta.
- Advising Hess Corporation on its US$450m sale to PTTEP of its operated interest in the A18 PSC in Malaysia-Thailand joint development area.
- Advising Repsol on the US$425m sale of its interests in the Corridor PSC in Indonesia to MedcoEnergi.
- Advising Sinar Mas Group on the US$6.5bn merger of PT Smartfren Telecom Tbk (listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange) and PT Smart Telecom, with PT XL Axiata Tbk.
- Advising CK Hutchison on all aspects of the successful US$6bn merger of PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia with PT Indosat Tbk, an Indonesian Stock Exchange-listed subsidiary of the Ooredoo Group of Qatar.
- Advising Chevron Phillips Chemical on the sale of the entire issued share capital of Chevron Phillips Singapore Chemicals (Private) Limited (CPSC) and related business assets to Aster Chemicals and Energy.
- Advising MedcoEnergi on the acquisition of interests in Block 48 and Block 60, Oman.
- Advising CATL-Brunp on certain JVs in Indonesia in connection with the electric value battery value chain.
- Advising Rosneft on global oil and gas trading arrangements and on its strategic alliance with Pertamina, including the development with Pertamina of a $19bn refinery project in Tuban, Indonesia.
- Advising Repsol on the completed US$212.5m sale of its portfolio of upstream operated assets in Malaysia and Vietnam to Hibiscus Energy.
- Advising Rio Tinto plc on the US$3.5bn disposal of its interests in the Grasberg gold and copper mine to Inalum, the Indonesian state-owned miner.
- Advising clients including BP, CNOOC, Hess Corporation, INPEX, Mandala Energy, Repsol and Udenna Corporation on various acquisitions and disposals of upstream oil & gas assets in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia.
- Advising BP on all aspects of its investment in, and the development of, terminal and storage facilities at Khor Al Zubayr in Southern Iraq.
- Advising BG Group on its US$5bn sale of its Queensland Curtis liquified natural gas pipeline sale to APA, Australia’s largest gas infrastructure business.
- Advising KazMunayGaz, the Kazakh national oil company, on its proposed $680m disposal of a 51 per cent interest in KMG International to CEFC China Energy Fund Limited, including related $3bn development financing arrangements and crude supply arrangements.
- Advising Brightoil Petroleum on its US$1.09bn acquisition of Anadarko’s Bohai Bay assets in China.
- Advising the Japanese trading houses and JICA on the disposal of their interests in the $1bn 600MW hydroelectric power station and aluminium smelter in Sumatra, Indonesia, to the Government of Indonesia.
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