Norton Rose Fulbright has great experience in advising Saudi Arabian and regional banks in conducting public private partnerships and general legal matters for large infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia. While the firm conducts a significant amount of work from its London and Dubai offices, practice head David Johnston is based in Riyadh, where he advises on a large variety of infrastructure works, including renewable energy, car parks and water production projects.
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Testimonials
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- 'Broad experience in PPP projects across a variety of industries and sectors. Good depth of expertise on the ground in Riyadh.'
- 'David Johnston is particularly excellent - super responsive and provides pragmatic and commercially focused advice.'
- 'The team is responsive, knowledgeable and possesses a vast amount of experience handling precedent transactions that was extremely helpful in completing our legal due diligence on multiple transactions.'
- 'The entire team was exceptional on the recent transaction we worked on together with the team.'
Key clients
- Emirates District Cooling (Emicool)
- Al Fransi Bank
- Bank Al Jazira
- Saudi Awwal Bank – SAB (previously SABB)
- ACWA Power
- Jinko
- Metitio
- Power & Water Utility Company for Jubail & Yanbu (Marafiq)
- Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
- National Bank of Kuwait
- Ahli United Bank
- Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
Work highlights
- Advising in relation to financing arrangements provided by The Saudi British Bank to Shuaibah Three Water Desalination Company in relation to the Shuaibah 3 power generation and seawater desalination project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Advising the lenders' counsel on the Rabigh-4 independent water production (IWP) project.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
David Johnston