Abu Dhabi based sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala Investment Company (“Mubadala”) and AirCarbon Exchange (“ACX”), the global exchange changing the voluntary carbon market, have successfully completed a transaction under which Mubadala has acquired a strategic stake in ACX, supporting ACX’s establishment of the first fully regulated carbon trading exchange and carbon clearing house in the Abu Dhabi […]
Deal & transactions
Egypt
Energy & Trading
MBH with TSFE on Egypt’s Green Energy Framework Agreements
Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy (“MBH”) acted as the Egyptian legal counsel to the TSFE Infrastructure & Utilities Sub Fund (“TSFE”) in connection with the negotiation of framework agreements entered into separately with 9 developers to develop
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Energy & Trading
Qatar
QatarEnergy to construct integrated polymers facility in Texas
QatarEnergy has entered into an agreement with Chevron Phillips Chemical Company to jointly develop an USD8.5 billion integrated polymers facility in Orange, Texas. The companies have made a positive final investment decision on the project
Global green energy company, Fortescue Future Industries (“FFI”) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) to conduct studies with a view to developing green hydrogen production in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The signed
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Energy & Trading
United Arab Emirates
Majid AlFuttaim committed to enhancing plastic pollution awareness
The 27th Conference of the Parties (“COP27”), currently being held in Egypt, witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) between Majid Al Futtaim Holding Company, the UAE Ministry of
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Energy & Trading
Saudi Arabia
APICORP signs a USD75m Islamic facility for Voluntary Carbon Offsets
The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (“APICORP”), an energy-focused multilateral development financial institution, has signed a USD75 million Murabaha agreement in favour of Hartree Partners Power & Gas Company (UK), an affiliate of global energy and
Renewable energy solutions provider Scatec along with its partners Fertiglobe (the strategic partnership between OCI N.V. and ADNOC), Orascom Construction, and The Sovereign Fund of Egypt, has announced the start of the commissioning
Energy & Trading
United Arab Emirates
Adnoc & Taqa’s sub-sea electricity transmission “Project Lightning”
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (“ADNOC”) and Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (“TAQA”) are jointly procuring the development, innovative sub-sea electricity transmission project The development is expected to reduce the carbon footprint of ADNOC’s
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Energy & Trading
United Arab Emirates
Siemens Energy and Adio to set up innovation centre in Abu
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (“Adio”) is joining forces with Siemens Energy to accelerate the development of clean energy technologies in the UAE and globally. Under the agreement, Adio will provide Siemens Energy
Banking & Finance
Energy & Trading
United Arab Emirates
Taqa secures refinancing of USD3.5 billion revolving credit facility
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (“TAQA”) has secured refinancing its USD3.5 billion revolving credit facility. Secured via a syndicate comprising 20 banks, the new 5-year USD SOFR-based facility, which will be utilised for general corporate
