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Energy Regulation Partner Jeffrey Jakubiak provides his thoughts on the growing need for electric infrastructure to support the growing need for the supply of power to the growing server farms serving AI and related resources.

The volatility of energy prices following recent geopolitical challenges has brought a renewed focus on domestic energy security.

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a surge in demand for power-hungry data centre capacity in Europe.

Following months of delays and intense debate in Congress, President Biden signed H.R. 815 into law on April 24, 2024, which made headlines for funding $95 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, along with mandating the divestment of social media app TikTok.

On 22 February 2024, the UK government confirmed the UK’s withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), blaming a failure of efforts to modernise the treaty and align it with net zero aims.

Roberta Downey, Head of International Construction and Partner, Vinson & Elkins joins Legal 500 Corporate Conversations — a new-format webinar and podcast that combines the best of the “fireside chat” format with the utility of the “ask me anything” (AMA) presentation.

The second part of 28^th Session of the International Seabed Authority’s Council continues in Jamaica with the international community lying anxiously in wait.

As set out in our previous alert Pivotal Year for Deep-Sea Mining, the deep seabed is rich in mineral concretions containing cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese called polymetallic nodules.

Contracts in the construction industry often include multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses

Bond markets have been in upheaval recently, with knock-on impacts on decisions on whether to make or defend calls on performance security on construction projects. Louise Woods, Ciara Ros, Jarrod Gutsa and Lauren-Emma Parrott of Vinson & Elkins examine the issues.

Just eight weeks after former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unexpectedly announced the largest package of tax cuts implemented in the UK since the 1970s, the UK Government has now effectively gone into full reverse following new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement, delivered on 17 November 2022, in which he announced a £55 billion combined package of tax rises and spending cuts intended to shore up the UK’s public finances.

On 22 September 2022, the Law Commission of England and Wales (the “Commission”) published its Consultation Paper (the “Consultation Paper”) detailing a suite of proposed revisions to the Arbitration Act 1996 (the “Act”).