A highly experienced team of four project finance and construction lawyers has joined Greenberg Traurig’s Project & Infrastructure Finance Practice, based in the firm’s Dubai office, working collaboratively with the team in Riyadh. The group, which formerly practiced at Norton Rose Fulbright in Dubai, includes Shareholders Nicholas Kramer and Angela Croker and Of Counsels Anastasia Kastelskaya and Lindsay Crawford. Croker joins as head of the Project Finance Practice for the UAE. She advises regional and international financial institutions, corporations and governments on a broad range of banking matters. Her primary focus is the project financing of energy and infrastructure projects, and she has deep experience in structuring and negotiating complex financings for energy transition initiatives, PPPs and landmark infrastructure developments. Well-known for guiding both conventional and innovative projects through all stages of development, she plays a key role in advancing critical energy transition and public-private partnership agendas in the region. Kramer joins as head of Construction and Projects for the Middle East. He advises government entities, sponsors, lenders, developers, contractors and consultants on projects throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. His practice spans a wide range of sectors, including conventional and renewable power, water and wastewater, transportation, digital infrastructure, industrial, health care, education, and commercial and residential developments. Kramer supports clients through all phases of project development, from procurement structuring, legal due diligence, tendering, contract drafting and negotiation, through to strategic advice during construction and operation, and the resolution of related claims and disputes. He has considerable expertise in the FIDIC forms of contract.
