M&A and divestment in conflict conditions: opportunities, obstacles, and due diligence imperatives

This timely series is designed to support businesses operating across the oil and gas sector as they navigate the legal, regulatory, and commercial challenges arising from ongoing regional conflict and heightened geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East.

The webinars bring together our leading oil and gas specialists from across the firm, spanning Corporate and M&A, Sanctions and Export Controls, Insurance, Disputes and Arbitration, Regulatory, and Risk Advisory. The sessions are aimed at companies active across the entire oil and gas value chain, including operators, service providers, investors, and joint venture partners.

Regional conflict can simultaneously create compelling acquisition opportunities — particularly in distressed asset situations — and introduce significant new complexities into transaction structuring, valuation, and regulatory clearance for O&G M&A. This webinar will address the enhanced due diligence requirements applicable in conflict-affected regions (including sanctions screening, anti-corruption, and title risk), consider how material adverse change and warranty and indemnity provisions should be negotiated to reflect conflict risk, and examine the regulatory approvals landscape for cross-border O&G transactions.