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Washington – June 5, 2024: Latinvex has named Crowell & Moring as one of Latin America’s Top Law Firms of 2024. The firm is listed among the top 50 global firms ranked for their legal work in Latin America. The publication also named Crowell partner Ian A. Laird as one of Latin America’s Top 100 Lawyers, and partners Nicole Janigian Simonian and Lisa Henneberry as two of Latin America’s Top 100 Female Lawyers in 2023.

Washington – October 5, 2023: Latinvex named Nicole Janigian Simonian and Lisa G. Henneberry to its list of Latin America's Top 100 Female Lawyers for 2023. Henneberry was honored in the Energy category and Simonian was honored in the Trade & Sanctions category. This is the fourth consecutive year that Simonian has received this honor.

Washington, D.C. – July 12, 2022: Lisa Henneberry joins Crowell & Moring as a partner in its Energy practice, bringing more than three decades of experience helping clients navigate and mitigate risk in the global energy sector. Her practice focuses on the development, construction, and operation of conventional and alternative energy projects, including power generation, fuels, and related feedstock, capacity, and offtake arrangements, as well as major industrial development.

The global energy crisis together with the ongoing energy transition received top billing for 2022 and, from an international disputes perspective, will continue to dominate in both the short and medium term. In particular, disputes arising from price volatility of raw materials and energy are expected to be the leading cause of disputes, followed by the construction of energy infrastructure (which was the leading cause of disputes in the last five years). International arbitration remains the clear choice for the resolution of energy disputes.

There is no doubt that the war in Ukraine has had sweeping impacts on a number of markets around the world from supply chains to commodity pricing. Perhaps the most immediate impact in the UK has been on energy prices, which have reached record levels and had massive impacts on both inflation and, of course, cost of living. It is therefore timely that the UK Government has recently launched a much-needed review of electricity markets intended to future-proof the current system and make it better able to accommodate the huge increase in renewable energy required to meet our net zero ambitions.