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  • IJGlobal Regional Report H1 2023 – Middle East and Africa

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    IJGlobal data record a fairly humble first half of 2023 for activity in the infrastructure finance space for the Middle East and Africa with a reasonable amount of project finance, decidedly constrained refinance activity and a tanked M&A sector

  • IJGlobal Awards 2022 – MENA Deal Winners

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    The great and good of the Middle East and North Africa infrastructure community gathered last night at Shangri-La in Dubai to celebrate the regional winners for IJGlobal Awards 2022

  • IJGlobal Awards 2021 – MENA Judging Team

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    The IJ team has once again pulled together an impressive line-up of judges for the Middle East and North Africa region of IJGlobal Awards 2021, ensuring that we once again host what we believe to be the most peer-review and independent events in the infrastructure and energy calendar

  • IJGlobal Awards 2020 – sign up to attend

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    In the absence of our famed IJGlobal awards nights – normally hosted in London, New York, Singapore and Dubai – we are bringing you all the thrills and spills of the night… virtually

  • IJGlobal Magazine – Autumn 2020 issue

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    IJGlobal is delighted today to publish the autumn edition of the IJGlobal Magazine – including the Power & Renewables Report – once again in digital format, due to the coronavirus pandemic

  • IJGlobal Awards 2019 – The Allen & Overy Interview

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    Winner of the IJGlobal Law Firm of the Year 2019 for the MENA region, Allen & Overy has an enviable heritage in the this sector – a law firm with infrastructure and energy truly in its DNA

  • IJGlobal Magazine – The Awards Special

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    The summer issue of the IJGlobal Magazine is published today in digital format only. IJGlobal took the decision in the interests of safety not to publish the hard copy due to the coronavirus pandemic

  • No, actually… it’s all about us!

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    When we go out to meetings and dare to drop into the conversation the subject of awards nights, it can go either of two ways. Either they lean in, ears pricking up… or they peer at you through fingers, shaking heads vigorously

  • Another year older, another year…

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    There are certain things by which you can chart your life and it’s a little bit sad when it dawns on you that IJGlobal’s quarterly league tables have become a landmark for tracking the flow of years

  • International capital eyes Saudi infra plans

    Iliyan Videnov Oil & Gas MENA

    Saudi Arabia, like many of its neighbouring countries in the Gulf region, is trying to reduce its economy’s reliance on oil exports

  • Who’s afraid of the CLO?

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas MENA

    Not all financial instruments with three-letter acronyms are scary. CLOs for infrastructure debt are not only making a comeback but now being promoted as a solution to climate change

  • Sitra refinery expansion, Bahrain

    James Hebert Oil & Gas MENA

    Bahrain Petroleum Company's Sitra refinery expansion drew together five international ECAs over seven tranches that yet could have been much bigger if not for the late – but great – role played by local lenders in the financing

  • Perfect chemistry: Sadara petrochemicals

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas MENA

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “Among this mammoth financings’ ground-breaking features was the largest ever (and second only) Middle Eastern sukuk bond, the largest ever direct loan from US Exim, and the participation of Spanish ECA FIEM on a project financing for the first time”

  • Acquisition of 70% of ENGIE E&P International

    Alexandra Dockreay Oil & Gas MENA

    Private equity-backed operators have poured billions of dollars into the North Sea upstream industry over the last 18 months. Neptune Energy’s first deal to buy out ENGIE's portfolio seals the entry of another independent, but is likely to be the last in a flurry of sales of mega-sized upstream portfolios by majors

  • Gulf tensions chill Lebanon’s development

    Jordan Bintcliffe Oil & Gas MENA

    DFI-backed projects in Lebanon appear to be on ice after Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned earlier this month. The latest instability is likely to further hinder project financings in the country

  • Local bank decline in MENA

    Jordan Bintcliffe & Petya Borisova Oil & Gas MENA

    While local lenders become less active in MENA energy and infrastructure transactions, international banks are taking a larger slice of a diminishing pie

  • MENA cuts time to financial close

    Petya Borisova & Jordan Bintcliffe Oil & Gas MENA

    The MENA region, never a slouch when it came to getting projects over the finish line, appears to be getting quicker at taking projects from preferred bidder (PB) to financial close

  • Leviathan gas field, Israel

    Oil & Gas MENA

    Delek Group and Texas-based partner Noble Energy’s financing of the Leviathan gas field offshore Israel represents the country’s largest ever infrastructure project. The field will ultimately transform Israel into a regional energy hub

  • GCC refinancings drop by a third

    Jordan Bintcliffe Oil & Gas MENA

    Refinancing deal value closing throughout the GCC dipped by 34% in 2016, according to IJGlobal data. The downward trend is expected to continue with fewer refinancings set to close in 2017, sources say

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