Bio

Brad Roach is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Oil and Gas Practice Group and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions, Projects and Infrastructure, and Power and Renewables Practice Groups. Mr. Roach has more than 25 years’ experience advising clients in the energy, upstream oil and gas/LNG, infrastructure and project finance industry throughout Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and has been based in Singapore since 1996. Mr. Roach is a strategic advisor who is recognized for his negotiation skills and a commercial and pragmatic approach to counselling clients on their investments in the oil and gas, LNG and power sectors. He has extensive experience advising companies on asset and corporate acquisitions, joint venture and shareholder agreements, gas and LNG sale and purchase agreements, joint operating agreements, farmout agreements, production sharing contracts, unitization agreements and financing agreements. He has also advised developers of power projects and LNG regasification terminals in various countries throughout Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines. He has advised the sponsors of several greenfield LNG projects, including the sponsors of the Mozambique LNG project, the Donggi-Senoro LNG project (Indonesia) and the Tangguh LNG project (Indonesia). In 2019, he advised Murphy Oil on the divestment of its Malaysian operations to PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) for a consideration of US$2.127 billion, which is the largest upstream M&A transaction undertaken in Southeast Asia in the past 5 years. Mr. Roach has been consistently recognized by Chambers & Partners and other professional directories and has been ranked “Band 1” for Energy & Natural Resources in Singapore for eight consecutive years. He has been ranked “Band 1” for Projects & Energy in Indonesia for ten consecutive years by Chambers & Partners, which notes he is “an eminent oil and gas expert sought out for advice on the most significant energy and natural resources deals” and is “the leading authority for oil and gas in the region”. He was named Best Lawyers International’s Energy Lawyer of the Year for Singapore in 2017 and is the only lawyer from Singapore included in the Energy section of Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders – Global Elite 2019. Mr. Roach gained his Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honors) and his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales. He has been a director of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) for several years and a member of the Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX).