Nadine Amr

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Practice Areas

Nadine is a partner in the Energy Transactions and Projects team in London. She advises clients on a wide range of cross-border energy and infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, project development work and regulatory matters. Nadine’s practice has a strong focus on M&A and project development involving oil and gas and natural resources and related infrastructure across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe. Nadine is recognized in Legal 500 UK, 2023 for Projects, Energy and Natural resources and in Chambers UK, 2023 for Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas. Nadine is active in the Association of International Energy Negotiators and is a key member of the drafting committee that is developing the revised model joint operating agreement for use in the international oil and gas industry.

Experience Highlights

Woodside Petroleum Ltd in its merger with BHP Petroleum with an approximately US $43 billion merged entity value and concurrent listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE

Funds managed by Apollo in the $2 billion sale by New Fortress Energy Inc. of 11 LNG infrastructure vessels to a newly formed venture owned approximately 80% by Apollo funds and 20% by NFE

Hygo Energy Transition in its $5 billion merger with New Fortress Energy

Equinor (formerly Statoil) in its successfully completed $2.9 billion acquisition from Petrobras of a 25 per cent interest in the Roncador field, located in the Campos Basin in Brazil. The purchase price consists of an initial payment of $2.35 billion, plus additional contingent payments of up to $550 million

Africa Oil Corp. on the successfully completed $1.4 billion acquisition of a 50% ownership interest in Petrobras Oil and Gas B.V., which owns interests in two of Africa’s largest producing oil & gas assets, located offshore Nigeria

Equinor (formerly Statoil) in the $2.5? billion acquisition from Petrobras of a 66 per cent interest (and operatorship) in the Carcara field in block BM-S-8 offshore Brazil

ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. on the signed acquisition of 100% of the shares of TEPKRI Sarsang A/S, the holder of an 18% participating interest in the Sarsang Block located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, from TotalEnergies for a potential total value of $170 million

Woodside on its approximately $430 million acquisition of the assets of ConocoPhillips in Senegal

Africa Oil Corp. on the successfully completed acquisition by Maersk Oil & Gas A/S of 50% of Africa Oil Corp’s interests in upstream oil and gas blocks located in Kenya, and in the Rift Basin and South Omo in Ethiopia, for an aggregate consideration of up to $845 million; Named Oil & Gas Council’s African Deal of the Year 2015

STAR Rafineri A.S. a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and its sponsors on the development and financing of a $6.3 billion greenfield oil refinery in Turkey on the Aegean Sea. This is the largest project financing in Turkey and involves the largest and most diverse group of ECAs for any multi-source financing in Turkey to date. The STAR project sets new benchmarks for project financings in Turkey in terms of amount and tenor of facilities. The Project won 10 awards including Infrastructure Journal’s “European Oil and Gas Deal of the Year 2014”