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The nearly 30 lawyers in Energy & Infrastructure Practice Group of Pioneers have a strong presence in Saudi Arabia, GCC, and Egypt, and handle an array of sophisticated energy and infrastructure transactions and advisory engagements. These attorneys span all of our practice groups, including corporate M&A, private equity, capital markets, fund formation, debt and project finance, oil and gas transactions, restructuring, litigation, tax, environmental, real estate, and energy regulatory. We regularly represent public and private companies, financial institutions, and sophisticated private equity firms and hedge funds in cutting edge transactions in the upstream, midstream, downstream, water, power (conventional and renewable), infrastructure and services sectors, and our attorneys have decades of experience advising clients in these sectors throughout the life-cycle of the underlying assets.
Our Environmental Practice Group knows these challenges and is prepared to protect and assist our clients in every facet of these matters around the world. By combining extensive litigation experience at both the trial and appellate levels, regulatory and governance counseling experience with environmental transactional knowledge, our attorneys garner an international reputation for vigorous, innovative representation.
We handle a wide array of energy matters, such as:
For decades, Pioneers lawyers have represented oil and gas clients in some of their largest and most significant matters. Our energy lawyers have extensive experience advising major energy companies and private equity funds in all aspects of the oil and gas industry, in particular in transactions involving assets located in all of the significant domestic plays as well as the GCC. Our energy lawyers combine world-class experience in sophisticated M&A and joint venture transactions with a deep understanding of the technical issues unique to oil and gas transactional work.
Lawyers in our Saudi Arabia offices have represented clients in the formation of a number of complex joint ventures in the oil and gas space, including transactions involving the formation of one or more companies to manage the joint venture’s assets and transactions where the participants each own undivided working interests in the assets. These joint ventures have focused on multiple opportunities in the upstream and midstream sectors, including the exploration and development of oil and gas properties, the acquisition, management, and leasing of mineral interests, and the development of midstream infrastructure. Working in close collaboration with our client’s business and legal teams, we develop a deep understanding of the business, financing and operational issues in the oil and gas industry, particularly with respect to the development of shale plays. This experience allows us to provide our clients insight on issues and concerns that are often important drivers of their counterparties’ legal positions.
In addition to our M&A and joint venture experience with energy companies and oil and gas upstream and midstream assets, the Firm’s lawyers have represented clients in the negotiation of:
Knowledge Pioneers Law Firm broader energy transactional, environmental, and energy disputes lawyers, regularly advises clients on the acquisition and sale of energy and infrastructure assets as well as the financings of private and public companies, negotiated as well as unsolicited acquisitions, going-private transactions, spin-off transactions, and acquisitions of minority interests. We advise clients as they evaluate existing business structures and explore the advantages of mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions and structures, including the divestiture or reorganization of assets.
Pioneers is outside counsel for energy and energy-related companies, including pipeline companies, private equity firms, financial institutions, investors, master limited partnerships, national oil companies, and major independents. We combine best-in-class M&A expertise with a top-tier financing platform. Our energy lawyers also represent private equity firms seeking to invest in the energy industry.
Specifically, we assist our clients in the following areas:
Our team of power and renewables transactional attorneys regularly advises clients on the acquisition and sale of energy and infrastructure assets as well as the financings of private and public companies, negotiated as well as unsolicited acquisitions, going-private transactions, spin-off transactions and acquisitions of minority interests. We advise clients as they evaluate existing business structures and explore the advantages of mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions and structures, including the divestiture or reorganization of assets.
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Specifically, we assist our clients in the following areas:
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