Patricia Tiller

Patricia is an experienced projects lawyer advising clients on the full life cycle of energy and infrastructure projects.

Patricia is the managing partner of the firm’s Dubai office and has over 16 years of experience advising participants in the energy industry, adding value to her client’s projects, and helping them achieve the desired results. She advises on energy projects involving both conventional and renewable energy sources, including development of regulatory regimes for the exploration, production, distribution, and sale of energy resources.

Patricia has advised on several “first-of-a-kind projects” in the energy-rich countries of the Middle East and Africa, and has a wealth of experience advising government authorities, sponsors, developers, and international contractors on innovative and complex energy projects.

In recent years, Patricia’s practice has focused on the transition to net zero and helping clients make strategic decisions when structuring energy development and production projects. She has worked on various initiatives designed to assist the conventional energy industry transition to a carbon-neutral production environment, including advice on new regulatory regimes, carbon capture and storage, and the continued role of natural gas as a transition fuel.

Patricia is English law qualified.

Representative Experience

Energy Transition

• Development of new regulations for production, import/export, and transportation of hydrogen
• Advising on standards for use of green power by industrial consumers, including commitments to green hydrogen
• Advising on a carbon capture project and carbon offsets scheme
• Advising on establishing a new green energy trading hub in South-East Asia

LNG Project Development

• Development of LNG export and import projects (onshore and offshore) on six continents
• Advising on all aspects of the LNG value chain, including LNG SPAs and MSAs, LNG tolling agreements, and charter party agreements for floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs)
• Advising governments (including Mozambique), project sponsors (including Gastrade, Texas LNG, Qatar Energy* and IPIC*), IOCs (including CNPC) and contractors (including Excelerate Energy and Mitsubishi Corporation (Basra)*) on their game-changing gas and LNG projects