PROJECTS, ENERGY & RENEWABLES

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HOWEVER LONG WE HAVE BEEN A PART Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants (“Galadari”) was OF THE REGION’S PAST, FOR HOWEVER THE FIRM established over 30 years ago and is recognised today as one of the leading full service law firms in the Middle East. DEEPLY WE ARE INVOLVED IN ITS PRESENT, The team has an outstanding track With over 70 lawyers from international and local backgrounds WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN record in many areas of legal practice, and four offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, the Jebel Ali Free Zone including: (JAFZA) and most recently the Dubai International Financial A PART OF BUILDING ITS Centre (DIFC), our team offers an in-depth understanding of the • Arbitration, Litigation & Dispute practices and procedures essential to do business successfully FUTURE”. Resolution; in the region. • Banking & Finance; ZIAD ABDULLA GALADARI • Compliance & Regulatory; Our clients often play an integral role in the development and • Construction & Infrastructure; progression of the UAE. Each member of the Galadari team • Corporate & Commercial; is focused on forming long-term, sustainable relationships • Employment; with businesses who share similar cultural and developmental • Government; aims. Our lawyers are committed to maintaining a profound • Hospitality & Leisure; understanding of their clients’ industry sector, enabling them to • Insurance & Reinsurance; provide commercially focused advice. • Intellectual Property; • Maritime & Shipping; We continue to thrive in this challenging market and grow our • Private Client; practice and coverage of the GCC by utilising close relationships

• ProjectS, Energy & Renewables; with our existing external partners and networks. Through further and development of our international desks the firms reach and • Real Estate & Property; expertise has never been more dynamic or diverse.

2 3 As well as boasting a wealth of natural resources, the Middle East region is a major global hub for the energy industry. The UAE is at the forefront of hosting and servicing the regional oil industry through its successful free zone areas such as Jebel Ali; Hamriyyah Free Zone; and the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre.

The growing regional renewable energy industry is also establishing a strong footprint in UAE, with initiatives like Istidama in Abu formidable combination of in- and bespoke arrangements, Dhabi; MASDAR City; Expo 2020; house and private practice including: Sharjah Environment Company experience working for major • upstream concessions LLC (Bee’ah) and the Emirates energy and oilfield services Our experience spans the Middle being part of running successful and production sharing Green Building Council. companies in the region, including East region, and our team has companies in the industry, enables agreements; BP plc; Weatherford International; particular recent experience us to provide comprehensive We advise a number of clients • “GALADARI IS International Tubular Services a broad range of oilfield advising on large scale projects, legal advice to clients operating on establishing themselves in AGILE ENOUGH Limited; and Parker Drilling. Our services agreements; including in the following in these core industries, as well the UAE and thereafter on their TO ADJUST TO THE team has worked across a range jurisdictions: UAE (Sharjah); as useful comparative know-how MENA operations. We focus on • integrated drilling services; CLIENTS’ NEEDS AND of energy sectors, including: Kurdistan; Iraq; Southern Iraq; applicable to other sectors. our clients’ needs in this respect, • STILL GIVE QUALITY power purchase agreements Oman; Yemen; Uganda; and and have established an office • ADVICE BASED ON Oil & Gas; and energy conversion Mozambique. in the Jebel Ali Free Zone to agreements; THEIR WORKING • LNG; facilitate the establishment and We believe that our experience KNOWLEDGE OF THE • feedstock, off take and servicing of clients there. This is • Renewables; across the energy sector leaves LEGAL SYSTEM IN THE master sale and purchase indicative of our understanding of, • us well placed to assist our clients UAE.” Petrochemicals; and agreements; and commitment to, our clients’ on all aspects of energy projects. • Power. requirements. • front end engineering design; Our legal knowledge of the LEGAL 500 EMEA

• EPC; and regulatory framework relating to Our Projects, Energy & We have advised on a number the Energy sector, together with Renewables team holds a of industry-standard agreements • marine construction. our commercial experience of

4 5 venture structures and FEED region. Our Chairman, Mr Ziad This provides us with valuable insight • More than 20 early production OIL AND GAS agreements; Galadari sits on the Board of into the sustainability initiatives in systems and facilities projects

Our team’s previous experience Directors of Dana Gas, one of Dubai, and further afield in Abu spanning South America; • advising on the main body of working both for international the more successful regional gas Dhabi with its Estidama initiative. Africa; numerous jurisdictions in project agreements such as: SHORTLISTED FOR private practice firms and in- companies. the Middle East and Asia; Our team includes lawyers who TRANSPORT, ENERGY house for major oil companies is o upstream concessions have advised on both the project • The bid for a US$ 2.1 million & INFRASTRUCTURE complimented by the local legal and production sharing RENEWABLES agreements and financing development of the Nasiriyyah TEAM OF THE YEAR knowledge and reputation of agreements; documents on the implementation Project in Southern Iraq as Galadari for integrity. Whether In the run up to Expo 2020 and in o oilfield services and of recent landmark renewables part of a consortium with a client requires advice on order to realize Abu Dhabi’s Vision integrated drilling services projects in the region, including institutional investors from CORPORATE structuring its entry into Dubai (or 2030, we already have experience agreements; on the recent Jordan round 1 & Japan; and COUNSEL MIDDLE in the wider Middle East region), of working on innovative 2 of solar projects, on the power EAST AWARDS, or on a specific project in the oil o power purchase agreements renewables projects in the region. • An integrated drilling services purchase agreements, the EPC 2014 and gas sector, we provide solid and energy conversion We have the distinction of working project in Myanmar, whose contracts and the operating and advice which draws from this agreements; and with Bee’ah on the Turnkey EPC complexity was increased maintenance agreements. knowledge and experience. Contract for its innovative energy due to Compliance and o feedstock, off take and master sale and purchase from waste plant in Sharjah. international sanctions Specifically, we have experience agreements. PROJECTS considerations. advising on: With a focus in the UAE moving towards green technologies and Galadari and its individual lawyers • structuring and entry into the In addition, we are involved corporate social responsibility on have had experience working on UAE, including registration/ in conventional upstream sustainable energy projects, our regional projects which, in the past incorporation of companies exploration and production firm sits on, and acts as honorary 6 years have ncluded: • advising on initial project projects for the exploitation of legal advisers to, the board of the considerations, including joint crude oil and natural gas in the Emirates Green Building Council.

6 7 EXPERIENCE

The members of our team have a broad range of experience in the projects, energy and renewables sector, including the following projects:

OIL & GAS

• advising a Northern Emirate owned entity on an oil and

gas concession, unitization and and the production, refining in the Middle East to produce commercialisation of a gas and supply of hydrocarbons synthetic fuels on a global field, including the structuring of for power generation in the commercial scale; and the client’s project expenditure Kurdistan Region of Iraq; • advising a client on aspects negotiations with developers • advising on the project and revenue income; of a joint venture in relation regarding infrastructure • preparing and negotiating LNG agreements and finance to bidding on a major wind ownership transfer; • advising a number of SPAs for a North African NOC documents for a petrochemical programme in North Africa; international oil companies and its marketing arm in the project in Saudi Arabia, • advising a bank in connection • (“IOCs”) on their operations in UK, including amendment of including the term sheet advising Bee’ah on the first with the financing of certain Iraq in general, and specifically SPA pricing terms and pricing agreement with the preferred single cycle integrated energy aspects of an LNG supply on their obligations under the indices; licensor, the feedstock from waste project in MENA; chain, including preparation of production sharing agreements and product sales terms a due diligence report on the • • advising a Middle Eastern advising Developers in Round 1 and joint operating agreements sheets and the fully termed entire supply chain (including national oil company on and Round 2 of Jordan Solar PV in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, preliminary engineering service risk assessment) and finance investment in a potential oil programme: and on technical service agreements. documents for the completion refinery (approx. US$ 10 billion); contracts in federal Iraq; • PPA / EPC / O&M; and of the deal; and • RENEWABLES advising clients on aspects of • IFC Term Sheet. • advising a significant IOC on farming into existing production • advising the Electricity Authority • advising as Regional Counsel various aspects relating to its sharing contracts, including of Cyprus on appointing for BP on all aspects of its solar PROJECTS gas capture project in southern the content of the assignment, a Strategic Partner for an research and development Iraq; and novation and amendment LNG regasification project • advising on local law aspects operations and trading agreements; (greenfield, approximately US$ of a large infrastructure (water) • advising a significant IOC especially in the Middle East 800 million in value). project in the Kurdistan Region on various aspects relating • preparing a framework and Europe; of Iraq, financed in part by to proposed downstream agreement for a client to set • PETROCHEMICALS advising as Regional Counsel multilateral financing; development of its current out an integrated project that for BP on gas to liquids interests in southern Iraq. included the exploration and • advising on marketing technology development and • advising Abu Dhabi Sewerage development of oil & gas, agreements and settlement projects in the Middle East and Services Company on agreements for a joint venture India; 8 9 HOW WE HELP GALADARI LAWYERS ARE CONSIDERED ‘GAME We offer expert advice across a wide range of CHANGERS’ - “WHEN OTHER FIRMS AND We offer an international level of specialist practice areas. Our aim is to help clients CONVENTIONAL STRATEGIES COME UP SHORT, service combined with Regional resolve difficult issues that matter to them, whether CLIENTS IN DEEP TROUBLE TURN TO GALADARI knowledge and expertise; transactional, reputational, regulatory, constitutional, FOR FRESH, AGGRESSIVE THINKING AND personal, or a combination of these. INNOVATIVE RESCUES.” We are industry and sector led, QC, THIRTY NINE ESSEX STREET CHAMBERS not practice driven; We have confidence not only in our technical ability and commercial acumen, but in our ability to provide We have lawyers who are practical, versatile and cost-effective solutions to experienced in both common satisfy our clients’ legal requirements. We draw REGIONAL INTELLIGENCE and civil law; together specialists from across the firm to address all aspects of our clients’ specific needs, whether Our regional intelligence gives us We have the largest team of they are facing a commercial dispute, a corporate the ability to view the MENA region local advocates with full rights restructure, or the break-up of a family business. strategically as a whole and to of audience before UAE courts; understand its role in global markets. and This allows us to see connections as WHO WE HELP well as differences and to understand We aim to become a trusted We provide a range of specialist and high-quality legal how leverage in one area can change long-term business advisor to services to businesses, institutions, private individuals the outcome of our client’s aspirations our clients, not just their lawyer. and families. Our clients include major construction regionally and worldwide. businesses, banks, oil and gas operating companies, oilfield services companies, media groups, hotel Our lawyers understand how capital and leisure companies, government and quasi- markets fit together, where the government entities, SMEs, international law firms and opportunities lie in emerging markets, large family conglomerates. how regulations compete and conflict, “THE JUDGEMENT CALLS AT GALADARI ARE how litigation integrates with business UNQUESTIONABLE; THEY SKILFULLY MANAGE Our aim is to be market leaders in our chosen industry objectives and how cross-border BOTH THE CLIENT AND THE TEAM AT THE FIRM TO sectors, proving thought leadership and offering legal strategies must be coordinated to GET THE BEST END RESULTS”. unrivalled expertise to our clients. The skills and achieve optimal results for our clients. By knowledge of our lawyers combined with the firm’s instructing Galadari, clients benefit from a MANAGING PARTNER, PINSENT MASONS DUBAI belief in establishing long term sustainable relationships deep talent pool combining diverse legal and committed personal service helps us to retain our skills with vast jurisdictional experience. clients over many years and often generations.

10 11 THE PROJECTS, ENERGY & RENEWABLES TEAM

Ziad Galadari Thanos Karvelis Chairman Partner, Dubai T +971 4 393 7700 E [email protected] T: +971 4 393 7700 E: [email protected] Ziad Galadari is a graduate of law from the UAE University in Al Ain. He is the Founder Thanos joined Galadari upon moving to Dubai from one of the most prominent law and Chairman of Galadari Advocates and Legal Consultants and has been practising firms in Greece. He has over 20 years’ experience in both front-end and contentious as an Advocate, Legal Advisor and Arbitrator since 1983. construction matters in SE Europe, MENA and the GCC, across the entire project life, His expertise is primarily in international and regional litigation and arbitration with from pre-bid and joint venture agreements to tender process structuring, evaluation, a particular focus on complex, high-value disputes involving major infrastructure preparation and administration, contract management and claims preparation, construction projects, banking and finance, debt recovery and fraud and M&A pretrial adjudication and dispute resolution (including court proceedings), as well transactions. With over 30 years of experience in local UAE he is recognized as a as domestic and international arbitration. Thanos has worked on a wide range of pioneer for the legal profession in the region. construction projects including public and private developments, concessions and PPP’s, large transportation projects, thermal power plants, hospitals and hotels. Ziad is a member of the Board of Directors of the Dubai World Trade Centre, which is Thanos’ legal expertise, complemented by an MSc in Business, enables him to offer charged with promoting trade and foreign investment in Dubai. He is also a member commercially focused business advice, as well as strong legal opinion. of the International Bar Association, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is on the Tribunal Panel of the Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone (formerly known as TECOM). He is on the board of Directors for Dana Gas, DU Telecommunications Ken Dixon and is often called upon by government and NGO’s as an advisor to major turn-key Partner, DIFC contracts for development projects in the Middle East. T +971 4 371 1999 E [email protected]

Ken has over 23 years’ experience, including seven in the region. He specializes in Mike Wakefield corporate and commercial, structuring and re-structuring, M&A and contract law. He Partner, DIFC has strong negotiating and drafting skills, and has acted for both sellers and purchasers T +971 4 371 1999 E [email protected] in a number of high value transactions, including investment banks, companies and individuals. He also advises a broad range of partnerships and individual partners on Prior to joining Galadari, Mike spent more than 13 years’ as in-house legal counsel to their structure, mergers, acquisitions and disposals. global blue chip companies operating in the upstream oil and gas, oilfield services,

and the hospitality and leisure sectors. Mike brings nearly 20 years of commercial and Ken is well known for working with both entrepreneurial and developing businesses and legal experience working in Dubai and the Middle East. He works with government, has a particular interest in the Hotels & Leisure, Entertainment, and Sports & Hospitality public and private companies, investors, entrepreneurs, banks and other institutions. sectors. His experience enables him to bring not only a wealth of knowledge, but also a pragmatic, commercial based approach when finding the correct advice and Many of Mike’s transactions and projects have an international or cross-border contracts for clients. element, including assisting UAE clients with their transactions and operations abroad. Mike focuses on energy and infrastructure projects and the restructuring of companies in these sectors. Mike was recently sole legal counsel advising on the first energy from waste project in the region, and has had significant involvement with green and sustainable fuel technology (including cleantech and renewable energy), manufacturing and real estate sectors. He is also fluent in English, Arabic and French.

12 13 Gerry Rogers Senior Associate, DIFC T +971 4 371 1999 E [email protected]

Gerry brings a wealth of experience in high profile projects and transactions in the “THEY ARE ATTENTIVE AND UNDERSTAND renewables, oil and gas, petrochemicals and power sectors, including advising on structuring, joint venture and project agreements and finance documents, as well as OUR BUSINESS AND THE INDUSTRY IN corporate and technical aspects of such projects. WHICH WE OPERATE. EXCELLENT LOCAL Having trained and worked with international law firm Simmons & Simmons, in London and subsequently Abu Dhabi, Gerry has worked in the Middle East region for almost KNOWLEDGE AS WELL, WHICH IS ONE OF five years. Prior to committing to a career in law, Gerry worked with Foster Wheeler for 10 years as a chemical engineer and so brings with him an effective blend of legal THE KEY REASONS WE WORK WITH THEM.” and industry sector knowledge. CHAMBERS GLOBAL

Maymoona Talib Senior Associate, DIFC T +971 4 393 7700 E [email protected] “THIS WIDELY RECOGNIZED PRACTICE Maymoona is a lawyer focusing on banking and finance aspects of projects and brings with her over eight years’ experience in this industry. She focuses on the HAS A CONSIDERABLE REPUTATION FOR transactional aspects of finance deals (onshore and cross-border) including bi-lateral and syndicated lending, trade finance, corporate finance and project finance. BANKING & FINANCE WORK, WITH A Maymoona assists local lawyers at Galadari with dispute resolution matters regarding failure of honouring financial commitments under varied contracts. Maymoona works PRACTICE THAT EXTENDS ACROSS THE closely with banks, corporates, financial institutions and high net worth individuals. REGION”

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