Andrej Kormuth

A projects and infrastructure attorney. Acted as sponsors’, lenders’ (including ECAs) or procurer’s counsel on a substantial number of Middle Eastern infrastructure deals, including the largest CCGT IPPs, renewables IPPs, IWPs, ISTPs and more recently ISWR and IWTPs, and the latest wave of social infrastructure and healthcare deals in Saudi Arabia and the GCC.

Has also led clients on several key landmark mandates, such as the very first independent strategic water reservoir in Saudi Arabia (signed in December 2023), the first two strategic renewables IPPs in Qatar, rounds 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Saudi Arabia’s renewables programme, the very first hospital PPP in Saudi Arabia, several airport privatisation programmes, accommodation villages in Neom (Saudi Arabia), Saudi Arabia’s largest pipeline PPP, the Dubai Strategic Sewage Tunnels projects, several metals and processing plant projects for industry leaders, the Bahrain LNG import terminal, pipeline and distribution developments, structuring of the West African Power Pool initiative, regulatory structuring for the Qatari and Saudi Arabian PPP programmes, the Sharjah Waste to Energy project (the first banked waste to energy deal in the Middle East), and Saudi Arabia's only polysilicon manufacturing plant, to name a few.

Notably these transactions encompassed broad range of contractual structures on which Andrej advised, from construction advice and negotiations across all FIDIC colours (green, red, silver, yellow and gold), to bespoke EPCs (turnkey, lump sum, cost plus and total max price), EPCMs, PMCs, DAs, concessions, O&Ms, JVAs and land rights agreements.

Law Society of South Africa

University of Cambridge, Magdalene College, LL.M., 2009; University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College, LL.B., 2007