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Region Mulls Impact as China Solar Sanctions Loom
Article originally appeared in MEED on June 3, 2021 A major development in Middle Eastern solar over the past two years has been the influx of Chinese engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors and suppliers into the sector. Developers have...
LIBOR LATEST - A Temporary Reprieve for USD LIBOR?
Often referred to as “the world’s most important number”, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is used as the reference interest rate for a range of commercial and financial contracts worth hundreds of trillions of dollars globally. As market commentators...
Sustainable Finance: Green Loans and Sustainability-Linked Loans
Fernando Rodriguez Marin, a partner in Bracewell’s New York office, provides insight on two of the newest sustainable finance products in the market: green loans and sustainability-linked loans...
Square Pegs and Round Holes
Bracewell’s Oliver Irwin and Bagyasree Nambron co-authored an article for Project Finance International (PFI) on the impact of the impending London interbank offered rate (Libor) replacement on project finance loans and their associated interest rate swaps. As market commentators and...
UAE Economic Substance Regulations – Self Assessment Notifications
Co-authored by Brian Conn (Partner, BDO) and Verona Hoh (Associate Director, BDO) On 30 April 2019, the UAE Cabinet, in response to the European Union’s review of the UAE’s tax framework and the UAE’s commitment to the Organisation for Economic...
Green Loans and Sustainability Linked Loans: New Guidance to the Green Loan Principles and Sustainability Linked Loan Principles jointly issued by the LMA, the LSTA and the APLMA
The present and future impact of climate change, human rights violations, corruption, environmental, labour and regulatory violations and poor corporate governance on the quality of investments and the associated credit risks has spurred widespread recognition by the finance community of...
Guide to Federal Reserve Main Street Loan Facilities and Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility
The Federal Reserve has created a number of programs to provide loans and other credit facilities to support the economy in response to COVID-19. Several of these programs provide for new extensions of credit for small, medium and large businesses...
Are the financial markets ready to weather the COVID-19 Storm?
The current COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant concern in the financial markets, reviving memories of the 2008 financial crisis. The sudden and almost complete shutdown of many non-essential businesses due to the mandatory ‘social distancing’ requirements has resulted in a...
The Global Sustainable Finance Movement
The present and future impacts of climate change, human rights violations, environmental, labor and regulatory violations and poor corporate governance on the quality of investments and credit risks have spurred widespread recognition of the importance of environmental, social and governance...
The end of LIBOR: The search for a new benchmark interest rate for Project Agreements
Often referred to as “the world’s most important number”, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is used as the reference interest rate for a range of commercial and financial contracts worth hundreds of trillions of dollars globally. Partly as a...
New UAE Economic Substance Regulations Issued
On 30 April 2019, the UAE Cabinet issued the Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 31 of 2019 concerning Economic Substance Regulations in the UAE (“Regulations”). Why has the UAE issued the Regulations? The implementation of the Regulations is a result...
The Evolving Market for Acreage Dedications
One of the more interesting developments in the oil and gas A&D market over the past couple of years has been the expanding variety of transactions between upstream and midstream companies involving acreage dedications. Acreage dedications are commitments from upstream...
Growing Complexity of ECA Financing
Project sponsors seeking to develop large-scale infrastructure projects have faced a variety of challenges over the last decade. Project sponsors have long sought to combine financial products from a diverse pool of private and public sector creditors; over the years...
Equivalent Project Relief in the Gulf
It’s been 3 weeks since I relocated from Bracewell’s London office to Dubai and I’ve been wearing down my shoe leather in the DIFC and beyond meeting old acquaintances and new contacts. Most of the time, discussions invariably focus on...
Federal and State Infrastructure Projects in Mexico
Members of Bracewell’s Project Finance team recently visited financial institutions, consulting firms and law firms in Mexico City to gain a better understanding of the current trends related to infrastructure development and project finance in Mexico. Below is a summary...