About

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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.

To learn more about our practice, visit: www.bakerbotts.com/services/practice-areas/projects

Chambers Review

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Projects & Energy - Middle East-wide

4
Band 4

What the Team is Known For

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.

Work Highlights

  • 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.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Shane Wilson
5
Shane Wilson
Head of Projects & Energy
5
Band 5

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.

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Shane Wilson
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Shane Wilson
Head of Projects & Energy
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Band 5

Members

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Adam Ismail

Alhassane Barry

Chad Passlow

Danisa Naidoo

Shane Wilson

Shane Wilson

Head of Department

Simran Basra

Stuart Jordan