Energy and infrastructure eDiscovery, engineering-aware.

Energy and infrastructure disputes are large, technical and long-running. Whether the matter is an Ofgem enforcement investigation, an EPC dispute on a major construction programme, an ICC or LCIA arbitration on an offtake agreement, a joint venture failure in an oil and gas asset, or an ESG-related shareholder claim, the eDiscovery footprint is characteristic: multiple counterparties, multi-year date ranges, engineering data in specialist file formats, and email and chat estates that follow project teams across firms and geographies.

We advise UK and international counsel on the eDiscovery side of energy sector work across power generation, oil and gas, renewables, transmission and distribution, and the wider infrastructure and utilities market. Our clients include developers, EPC contractors, operators, offtakers, financiers and regulators, and we act on both sides of the counterparty relationship.

Collection in this sector is unusual for two reasons. First, the source universe extends beyond email and Office documents to CAD drawings, project schedules in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, SCADA and historian data, geographic information system files, engineering document management platforms such as Aconex and ProjectWise, and the field-level data feeds that support operational decisions. Second, custodians are often spread across joint venture partners, consortium members and sub-contractors, which requires collection instruments and cooperation protocols that are agreed up front rather than negotiated mid-matter.

We work with counsel to scope custodians and repositories in consortium contexts, to secure preservation across firm boundaries, and to collect against ACPO principles with hash verification at source. Engineering data is processed with tools that understand the underlying file types, so that CAD revision history and Primavera baselines are preserved rather than flattened into unreviewable exports.

Review is configured for the substantive dispute. That typically means issue coding aligned to the pleaded case, technical review by subject matter experts embedded in the same platform, and privilege workflows that respect the multi-firm structure of the counterparty relationships. Where the matter involves ESG or climate-related claims, we handle the additional layer of stakeholder correspondence, non-financial disclosures and internal sustainability records with the same rigour.

Production is delivered in the formats the tribunal or regulator directs, with native engineering files preserved where the fact-finder needs them and load-file productions where the arbitral or court process demands them. The evidential base supports the pleaded case rather than distracting from it.