Global Guide 2026 : Middle East-wide
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Provided by Baker Botts L.L.P.
Baker Botts’ Global Projects team brings together lawyers from complementary practices to support the development, financing, operation, and regulation of major energy and infrastructure projects worldwide. The team advises clients across all project stages, from development through operation, and across a broad range of sectors. This includes upstream, midstream, and downstream energy projects such as oil and gas, LNG, pipelines, petrochemicals, and refineries, as well as energy transition initiatives involving hydrogen, ammonia, carbon capture, electric power, and renewables. The practice also encompasses project finance, representing sponsors, lenders, and borrowers; federal and state energy regulatory matters; real estate development and project-related acquisitions and divestitures; and international trade issues involving U.S. export controls, imports, foreign investment, and cross-border financial transactions.
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Baker Botts fields a lean projects team in the UAE, advising lenders and sponsors on a wide range of projects work across the GCC. With work spanning Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, its lawyers are able to assist with energy projects, including renewables matters, in addition to their expertise in traditional oil and gas. The firm offers further expertise in utilities and infrastructure projects.
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Baker Botts acted for Marubeni Corporation and Hitachi Zosen Inova as the lenders to the sponsor consortium of the Abu Dhabi waste-to-energy project, procured by EWEC and Tadweer.
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The Baker Botts team possesses deep industry knowledge and the ability to navigate transaction stages with effectiveness.
Baker Botts is commercial, pragmatic, solution-focused and collaborative. The firm has a strong team of projects lawyers who understand the Middle East.
Baker Botts has been able to meet demanding timelines and asks, helping to move the negotiations forward quickly to get to an agreement.
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Shane Wilson has considerable experience acting as both sponsor-side and lender-side counsel on IWPs and waste-to-energy projects located across the region. He is based in the Dubai office of Baker Botts.
Shane Wilson is a very shrewd operator and understands the complexity of financing mega projects while also delivering commercially focused advice.
Shane is an absolute star. He is awesome at client delivery and has real commercial acumen.
Head of Projects & Energy
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Chad Passlow
Danisa Naidoo
Simran Basra
Adam Ismail
Stuart Jordan
Alhassane Barry
Global 2026
Practice area: Projects & Energy
Location: Global: Multi-Jurisdictional
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Practice area: Projects & Energy
Location: Singapore
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