Judith Aldersey-Williams has nearly 20 years' experience as a commercial lawyer in London and Aberdeen.
Judith advises energy industry clients on a wide range of legal matters with a particular emphasis on upstream oil and gas commercial contracts, competition and procurement issues and intellectual property and IT/e-commerce related matters.
Based in CMS Cameron McKenna's Aberdeen office since 2000, where she has been a partner since 2007, she regularly advises both operators and contractors worldwide on upstream contracts including gas sales agreements, transportation agreements, services, construction and drilling contracts. As part of an industry work group, she was primarily responsible for drafting the new industry template decommissioning cost provision deed. She also supported the industry workgroup updating the UK industry's standard JOA.
Judith is also the author of chapters on competition and public procurement law in oil and gas in Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends (Ed. Gordon and Paterson)(2007) and regularly presents seminars on various aspects of oil and gas law to clients, industry associations and for the annual UK Oil and Gas Lawyers Course run by CMS Cameron McKenna and the University of Dundee Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy.
Education:
Cambridge University, BA in Law, 1985, 1st class. Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard Law School, LLM 1986. College of Law, Law Society Finals, 1987, 1st Class. Admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales, 1989.
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