The launch of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s (the Kingdom) Vision 2030 Program preceded the announcement of numerous ground-breaking Mega and Giga-projects throughout the country. Eight years on, recent MEED data estimates...more
8/8/2024
/ Capital Raising ,
Contractors ,
Fossil Fuel ,
Investment ,
Leaseback ,
Leases ,
Property Tax ,
Real Estate Market ,
Revenue ,
Sales ,
Saudi Arabia
As part of a package of new climate change legislation, on October 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (“VCMDA” or “AB 1305”). Intended as an effort to reduce...more
Much has been written about the role of hydrogen in the context of energy transition and the path to net zero. Putting aside for the moment the degree of investment and innovation required to get from where we are now to...more
3/11/2021
/ Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
EU ,
Financial Institutions ,
Fossil Fuel ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ,
Hydrogen Power ,
Middle East ,
Net Zero ,
Renewable Energy ,
Sustainability
Climate Change Litigation on the Horizon with Trump Environmental Overhaul -
On July 16, 2020, President Trump’s Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) published the long-awaited final rule revising the implementing...more
9/18/2020
/ CEQ ,
CFIUS ,
Climate Change ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Debt Restructuring ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
FIRRMA ,
Foreclosure ,
Foreign Investment ,
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ,
Indonesia ,
Infrastructure ,
Joint Venture ,
Middle East ,
NEPA ,
Oil & Gas ,
OPEC ,
Petrochemicals ,
PFAS ,
Pipelines ,
Russia ,
Saudi Arabia ,
Solar Farm ,
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) ,
United Arab Emirates (UAE) ,
Waste-to-Energy ,
Wind Farm
A few years ago, we reported that a wave of waste to energy (“WTE”) projects were expected in the Middle East. It now appears that the wave is about to break. From Saudi Arabia, to the UAE and to Oman, these planned projects...more
9/14/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Energy Sector ,
Foreign Direct Investment ,
Foreign Investment ,
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ,
Middle East ,
Oman ,
Power Purchase Agreements ,
Request for Proposals ,
Saudi Arabia ,
United Arab Emirates (UAE) ,
Waste-to-Energy
Environmental Tort Class Actions -
In what has become a near legal certainty following plant explosions, train wrecks with chemical spills, and other large-scale accidents, plaintiffs often file suit and seek to certify...more
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, with the WHO "deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity" of the outbreak. In response, the financial markets...more
Recent debarments of contractors by the World Bank underscore the need for entities working under multilateral development bank (“MDB”) contracts to implement effective anti-corruption project finance mitigation strategies...more
10/3/2019
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Banks ,
Collusion ,
Colombia ,
Competitive Bidding ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fraud ,
Indonesia ,
Misrepresentation ,
Project Finance ,
Spain ,
Suspensions & Debarments ,
World Bank