Projects and project finance
“Norton Rose (Middle East) LLP has a wealth of on the ground resources and expertise it can call upon for high profile, complex matters”
Legal 500 EMEA 2009
‘The team is particularly adept at project-financed IWPPs and petrochemical projects and PPP/infrastructure projects. It also has a strong contentious and non contentious construction practice’
Chambers Global 2009
We advise financial institutions, international corporations, governments, multinational and regional companies and utilities on complex, world-class, innovative projects.
We have been advising on projects in the Middle East for over 30 years and have worked on major deals across all the sectors, including power and water, transport, petrochemicals, oil and gas, PPP and social infrastructure, alternative energy and mining and metals. We advise on both conventional and Shariah compliant structures.
We offer you
- Specialist MENA projects lawyers who are located permanently in the region.
- Strong commercial awareness of the issues that are key to governments, lenders, sponsors, Islamic banks and other key counterparties enabling our lawyers to advise in a pro-active and commercial manner.
- Experience in structuring project transactions conventionally and on principles compatible with Shariah law. We have advised on numerous major projects in the Middle East and many of these projects involved the most advanced technology, or were innovative for other reasons, such as being the first BOT or BOO projects of their type in the region.
- A market-leading reputation in projects both regionally and globally.
Awards
- The Brief Legal Awards 2009, Middle East Projects Team of the Year
- Corporate INTL 2010 International Legal Awards for Practice Excellence, Energy law firm of the year, Bahrain
- Corporate INTL 2010 International Legal Awards for Practice Excellence, Construction law firm of the year, Bahrain
- emeafinance 2010, Best legal advisor, Project Finance in the EMEA region