James English is a member of the firm’s Energy, Environment & Infrastructure practice group, and is a trusted advisor to clients navigating the complexities of international and domestic energy infrastructure projects. He focuses his practice on the development, financing, and operation of infrastructure projects in the upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas, mining, and petrochemical sectors as well as electrification and EV projects, battery storage, and fleet conversion. James also routinely advises clients on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and upstream transactions globally. James is also an industry leading lawyer in commodity marketing and trading, with a particular emphasis on natural gas, LNG, and environmental attributes. James served as the lead co-chair in the AIEN’s recent publication of a model form LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement.
In his practice he drafts and negotiates the project documents required for every stage of a project’s life cycle from the initial investment, construction, commercial operations, and decommissioning. James’ experience covers a wide range of complex development and commercial contracts, including host government instruments, joint ventures, supply, offtake, tolling, acquisitions, divestment, trades, credit support, site services, facility sharing, transportation, and numerous other industry-tailored agreements. Projects have ranged in capital requirements from approximately $10 million to $2 billion. He also has an industry-leading on-the-ground international background, having worked in upwards of fifty developed and developing countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Latin America.
James guides corporate clients and public entities in the electrification of their facilities including behind-the-meter energy use reduction solutions. He has served as lead counsel in conjunction with the rollout of EV charging, battery storage, and on site solar to a combined 3,000 retail locations, including the negotiation of power purchase agreements, EPC arrangements, REC trading, warranty structuring, SaaS licensing, and vendor legal strategy. With fleet electrification, James has assisted companies in all stages of program rollouts, including vehicle purchase, leasing, facility installations, and warranty structuring. He also assists operators of greenfield generation and shared site behind-the-meter battery solar projects and battery storage amounting to approximately 1020 MW of installed capacity.
James has notable experience in the acquisition, divestiture, and upstream transactions, emphasized on the buying, and selling of assets and joint ventures. He regularly assists companies on cumulative transactions over $10 billion, focusing on domestic and international upstream transactions, pipeline and midstream assets, downstream petrochemical infrastructure, industrial materials, and mining assets.
Prior to joining BCLP, James earned industry experience as an international negotiator at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. His responsibilities included deepwater transactions and new ventures in Asia Pacific, Africa, Australasia, Canada, and the Caribbean. James also worked extensively with natural gas commercialization and marketing projects in West Africa, East Africa, Central Asia, Trinidad, Australia, and New Zealand.
