Nadine Amr
Nadine is a Partner in the London office and a member of the Energy Transactions and Projects practice group. She has experience advising clients on a broad range of energy and infrastructure projects, transactions and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on energy M&A globally.
Nadine is active in the Association of International Energy Negotiators and is one of the drafters of the AIEN 2023 Model International Joint Operating Agreement, which updates and supplements one of the most widely used model form JOAs in the international oil and gas industry.
Nadine is ranked as “Up and Coming” in Chambers UK, 2025, and is recognised in Legal 500 UK, 2025 for Oil & Gas. In Chambers UK 2025 sources describe Nadine as “very calm and measured” and as having “excellent legal and commercial skills, combined with outstanding customer service.”
Experience Highlights
Woodside Energy Group Ltd in its merger with BHP Petroleum with an approximately US $43 billion merged entity value and concurrent listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE
Funds managed by Apollo in the $2 billion sale by New Fortress Energy Inc. of 11 LNG infrastructure vessels to a newly formed venture owned approximately 80% by Apollo funds and 20% by NFE
Hygo Energy Transition in its $5 billion merger with New Fortress Energy
Equinor (formerly Statoil) in its successfully completed $2.9 billion acquisition from Petrobras of a 25 per cent interest in the Roncador field, located in the Campos Basin in Brazil. The purchase price consists of an initial payment of $2.35 billion, plus additional contingent payments of up to $550 million
Africa Oil Corp. on the successfully completed $1.4 billion acquisition of a 50% ownership interest in Petrobras Oil and Gas B.V., which owns interests in two of Africa’s largest producing oil & gas assets, located offshore Nigeria
Equinor (formerly Statoil) in the $2.5 billion acquisition from Petrobras of a 66 per cent interest (and operatorship) in the Bacalhau (formerly Carcara) field in block BM-S-8 offshore Brazil
ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. on the signed acquisition of 100% of the shares of TEPKRI Sarsang A/S, the holder of an 18% participating interest in the Sarsang Block located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, from TotalEnergies for a potential total value of $170 million
Woodside on its approximately $430 million acquisition of the assets of ConocoPhillips in Senegal
Africa Oil Corp. on the successfully completed acquisition by Maersk Oil & Gas A/S of 50% of Africa Oil Corp’s interests in upstream oil and gas blocks located in Kenya, and in the Rift Basin and South Omo in Ethiopia, for an aggregate consideration of up to $845 million; Named Oil & Gas Council’s African Deal of the Year 2015
STAR Rafineri A.Ş. a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and its sponsors on the development and financing of a $6.3 billion greenfield oil refinery in Turkey on the Aegean Sea. This is the largest project financing in Turkey and involves the largest and most diverse group of ECAs for any multi-source financing in Turkey to date. The STAR project sets new benchmarks for project financings in Turkey in terms of amount and tenor of facilities. The Project won 10 awards including Infrastructure Journal’s “European Oil and Gas Deal of the Year 2014”
Credentials
- London School of Economics, B.Sc., Government and History Honours, 2009
- BPP Law School, GDL, 2010
- Kaplan Law School, LPC, 2011
- Chambers Global, “Up and Coming” in Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
(UK), 2024 - Best Lawyers UK (BL Rankings, LLC), Ones to Watch in the United Kingdom, Energy and Natural Resources Law, 2023 and 2024
- Who’s Who Legal (Lexology), Energy: Oil & Gas (UK) 2024
- Chambers UK, “Associate to Watch” in Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas (UK–wide), 2020–2023; “Up and Coming” in Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas (UK–wide), 2024; Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas (UK-wide), 2025
- Expert Guides, “Rising Star” in Energy and Natural Resources, 2020
- Legal 500 UK, “Rising Star” in Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil & Gas, 2021–2023 and 2025; Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil & Gas, 2024
- International Financial Law Review (IFLR), “Rising Star” within the EMEA region, 2021
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
- Deals & CasesDecember 9, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 17, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 3, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsJuly 18, 2024
- InsightJune 24, 2024
V&E Energy Update
- InsightMay 20, 2024
Published in Upstream Oil and Gas in Africa
- Rankings & AwardsFebruary 15, 2024
- InsightFebruary 2, 2024
Published by Practical Law
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 19, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 4, 2023
- InsightFebruary 14, 2023
V&E Energy Update
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 20, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsSeptember 29, 2022
- Vinson & Elkins Achieves 12 Rankings in The Best Lawyers in America (BL Rankings, LLC) UK 2022 GuideRankings & AwardsJune 30, 2022
- Deals & CasesJune 1, 2022
- Deals & CasesMarch 9, 2022
- Deals & CasesFebruary 22, 2022
- InsightNovember 24, 2021
- Deals & CasesJuly 13, 2021
- InsightJune 22, 2021
- Deals & CasesJanuary 13, 2021
- “African divestment deals are back in the frame,” Petroleum Economist, November 11, 2024 (quoted)