Stuart James
Partner and OMP Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
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Overview
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Experience
Introduction
Stuart advises energy companies and investors doing business in the Middle East and globally
Stuart advises on major cross-border and domestic transactions in the energy, resources and infrastructure sectors, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures and commodity sales and marketing arrangements, in addition to general corporate and commercial matters.
He has extensive experience advising multinational corporates, institutional investors and state-owned enterprises on their strategic transactions around the world, particularly in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions.
Stuart has significant international and in-house experience, having previously practised as a corporate/M&A lawyer in London, Sydney and Perth, and having worked on a secondment basis with Woodside, BHP, Bank of America and Mitsui.
- A global energy company on its acquisition of a company holding a minority interest in an offshore concession in East Africa, comprising three LNG projects, from an international oil company for $1.15 billion.
- A global energy company on its investment together with a national oil company in upstream oil and gas assets in the Caspian Sea offshore Turkmenistan for US$500 million, and subsequent joint venture with Turkmen state owned entities.
- A global shipping company on the acquisition of an international shipping pool operator and commercial ship management company for US$1.5 billion.
- A national oil company on the sale of a 49% interest in its gas pipeline network valued at US$20.1 billion to a consortium of international investors, which at the time was the largest ever infrastructure investment in the Middle East.
- A national oil company on the sale of a 49% interest in a portfolio of select real estate assets valued at US$5.5 billion to accounts and entities owned and/or advised by a large US institutional investor.
- A large institutional investor on its proposed investments in Saudi Aramco's crude oil pipeline network and gas pipeline network.
- SLB on the sale of its land drilling rig business in Australia to Total Energy Services Inc.
- SLB on the acquisition of Independent Data Services, a provider of cloud-delivered reporting and analytical services to the oilfield services sector.
- Woodside on its acquisition of interests in the Wheatstone LNG, Kitimat LNG project and Balnaves oil project from Apache Energy for US$2.75 billion.
- ITOCHU on its joint venture with Emsteel for the development of a low carbon iron project in Abu Dhabi.