Whatever the nature of the project, owners, developers, contractors and financiers need specialist advice on drafting and negotiating the contract documentation for the project they are undertaking, and the Oman regulatory and legal environment in which they are doing so. In today’s climate, ensuring that risk is clearly understood and projects are completed on time and to budget has never been more essential.

Our lawyers have worked, and are working, on some of the most high profile, complex projects in Oman and the region. Our expertise sees us advise a multitude of clients on projects from inception and tendering, negotiating, financing to completion, with a robust approach to the resolution of disputes. Furthermore our experience and contacts mean we are often called upon to help introduce and bring together project participants – be they developers, financiers, contractors or consultants, to project teams.

Al Sheaily’s lawyers have all the skills and experience to offer pragmatic, cost effective, and sensible legal solutions on all projects in Oman.

Representative Transactions

• Acting for State Utility/Offtaker in the tender, development, negotiation and completion of a 2000MW IPP (project cost approx $2.3billion)
• Acting for developers of a 1300MW BO IPP ($1.5b)
• Acting for financiers to a 1000MW IPP (including $750m debt package)
• Acting for developer of several solar pv renewables projects to 78MW
• Acting for developers of a 250MW dual-use solar pv greenhouse project
• Undertaking legal due diligence for major Omani energy company on full suite of transaction and operations documentation
• Advising three regional ports on tendering, development and financing of port infrastructure
• Counsel for sponsors in the development and financing of four major regional LNG and petrochemicals projects
• Advising energy E&P company upstream and downstream activities involving several licences, including farmout/in, production sharing, development and financing
• Advising state entities and sponsors in relation to the development and financing of major infrastructure projects including rail, hotels, hospitals, schools and agricultural transactions together with privatisations in relation to the same
• Advised on development and financings in Oman including for Pipeline Project, a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, a Refractory plant and an antimony production plant.