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
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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
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Texas Supreme Court Finds Anadarko is Entitled to Over $100 Million in Deepwater Horizon Defense Costs Based on Undefined Term in Insurance Policy -
Insurance coverage litigation arising out of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon...more
A long-standing feature of the public-private-partnership (PPP) market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) was that despite its relatively strong record of implementing PPP projects in the utilities sector, KSA did not have...more
Navigating Private Equity Fund Limitations for Energy Infrastructure-Focused Investments -
Energy infrastructure funds have emerged as a class of funds that offer investors the potential for long-term stable returns, as...more
5/9/2017
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King Salman Abdulaziz Al-Saud’s recently concluded 31-day trip to Asia saw Saudi Arabia and Malaysia sign a series of four memoranda of understanding (MOUs) relating to economic cooperation, trade, investment and human...more
The sovereign funding gap caused by a low oil price environment, coupled with a global period of economic uncertainty, are two drivers leading governments and state owned enterprises (SOEs) throughout the Middle East and...more
Recent activity in the waste management sector in many Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries suggests that governments in the region are starting to look again at waste to energy (W2E) projects.
Within the span of 18...more