
Bader Thabti

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

Bader Thabti is a Counsel in our London Corporate team.
Bader is a private capital lawyer with a focus on complex, high-value private and hybrid capital transactions across the energy, infrastructure, mining, natural resources, and other hard asset sectors. His practice covers the full spectrum of private capital deployment, with particular emphasis on equity, debt, hybrid investments.
He advises state-owned entities, corporates, sovereign wealth funds, private equity sponsors, debt funds, and other institutional and alternative capital providers. His experience includes structuring and executing transactions involving equity and debt, hybrid and structured investments, Islamic finance, restructurings and distressed assets.
Bader regularly advises on cross-border transactions in Europe, the Middle East, and emerging markets.
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
- Deals & CasesSeptember 1, 2025
- InsightJuly 23, 2025
Published by Energy Intelligence
- InsightMay 14, 2025
Published by Data Center Dynamics
- Deals & CasesMarch 6, 2025
- InsightFebruary 24, 2025
Published by Data Centre Review
- Deals & CasesJanuary 15, 2025
- Deals & CasesOctober 29, 2024
- Press ReleaseApril 11, 2024
News & Insights
Published by Energy Intelligence
Published by Data Center Dynamics