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Bader Thabti
Bader Thabti
Counsel — Corporate
Counsel — Corporate

Bader Thabti

Bader Thabti
London

20 Fenchurch Street
24th Floor
London EC3M 3BY
United Kingdom

Bader Thabti

Experience Highlights

  • Bapco Energies in relation to a landmark concession and joint venture arrangements with a wholly owned Bahraini subsidiary of EOG Resources – the first concession granted by the Kingdom of Bahrain in over a century

  • Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. in connection with a preferred equity commitment to Origis USA (a portfolio company of Antin Infrastructure Partners)

  • Lithium Americas Corp on the $250 million strategic investment from Orion Resource Partners to fund the development and construction of Phase 1 of the Thacker Pass Project in Nevada

  • Lithium Americas in the financing, including the $2.26 billion conditional commitment from the DOE, for the Thacker Pass Construction Project, the next large scale lithium mine located in Nevada and the largest known measured and indicated resource in the United States

  • Vitol in a feedstock supply and inventory financing transaction with an energy company that owns a crude oil processing facility in the U.S.

  • A leading infrastructure credit fund and its co-investors on a US$230 million holdco facility made available to a consortium in connection with an FPSO project in Brazil

  • A global energy investment fund on the refinancing of US$11.5bn bridge facility with long term debt facilities, a bond issuance and Islamic facilities incurred by the fund in connection with its acquisition of a 49% interest in a gas pipeline subsidiary of a state-owned middle east oil and gas company

  • The global coordinators, bookrunners and managers on a first-of-a-kind US$1.5 billion project sukuk issuance by a private equity backed entity and a US$3 billion GMTN programme by a BidCo as part of the refinancing of the bridge facility entered into in connection with its acquisition of a 49% interest in a midstream subsidiary of a state-owned middle east oil and gas company

  • A consortium led by Apollo Global Management Inc. and its subsidiaries in connection with the long-term strategic investment entered into with The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company for an underlying real estate portfolio valued at $5.5 billion

  • The bondholders on the refinancing of the bridge facility in connection with a global investment firm’s acquisition of a 49% interest in a subsidiary of a state-owned middle east oil and gas company

  • The ECAs and lenders to a major Indian conglomerate on the 4 telecoms financings

  • A leading Indian conglomerate on the acquisition and green financing of a solar manufacturing company based in Norway and Singapore

  • The sponsor and project company on a proposed 6 MTP green integrated steel plant in Abu Dhabi

  • A French multinational integrated energy company on the project development and financing of an LNG bunkering project in Oman

  • A middle eastern bank and other financial institutions on a multi-billion dollar restructuring of a healthcare group pursuant to a first-of-a- kind deed of company arrangement under the Abu Dhabi Global Markets insolvency regulations

  • A sovereign wealth fund, a Japanese bank, the commercial lenders and the Islamic participants on a multi-billion-dollar refinery and petrochemical project in Saudi Arabia

  • The lenders (including 6 ECAs, a sovereign wealth fund and Islamic finance institutions) on the restructuring and debt re-profiling of the US$12.5bn integrated petrochemical complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  • The lenders (including ECAs and Islamic finance institutions) in connection with the approximately $12.5 billion financing for the Sadara integrated petrochemicals complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  • Advising multilateral financial institution, ECAs and commercial banks on the project financing for a gold mine expansion project located in Mauritania

  • Advising European, Asian and African ECAs and commercial lenders on the Second and third restructuring of a nickel and cobalt project in Madagascar

  • The tax equity financiers in connection with an offshore wind project in Massachusetts

  • A global asset management firm on its multi-million dollar distressed debt investment to a major Italian football club

  • A petroleum exploration and production company in their US$2.5 billion restructuring of its RCF, high yield bond and retail bond and additional placement of fresh shares

  • The development and financing of a 950MW offshore wind project in Scotland

Credentials

  • University of Law, Moorgate, LPC, 2015
  • University of Kent, LLB, 2014
  • Listed as a key lawyer for Islamic Finance, Legal 500 UK, 2024
  • England and Wales
  • Arabic