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Bracewell Awards and Accolades

• For the seventh year in a row, The Times has recognised Bracewell as one of the leading law firms for energy and renewables work in its 2026 list of Best Law Firms.
• We are proud that the Bracewell team was among law firms recognised for CrossBoundary Energy’ s African Renewables Portfolio Financing which won Loan Deal of the Year at the IFLR Africa Awards 2025. We were also shortlisted in several categories including International Firm of the Year, Energy Team of the Year, Loan Team of the Year, as well as an advisor on the Feriana PV Project Financing.
• In the Financial Times’( FT) Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2025, Bracewell was named the Most Innovative Law Firm in Europe for Infrastructure for its representation of CrossBoundary Energy and the first pan-African senior secured portfolio financing for greenfield assets.
• Bracewell was among the law firms honoured for its role in McDermott International’ s restructuring, which won Restructuring Deal of the Year at the 2025 IFLR Europe Awards.
• Al Ansar was awarded Social Infrastructure of the Year, Healthcare, MENA and Juranah Water Reservoir Company, Saudi Arabia was awarded Water Deal of the Year, MENA at the IJGlobal Awards Middle East & North Africa
• Bracewell received an honourable mention as Energy & Infrastructure Team of the Year at the LexisNexis Middle East Legal Awards 2025, in recognition of our work on the Juranah Independent Strategic Water Reservoir Project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first of its kind in the country under a Build, Own, Operate, Transfer – or BOOT – model.
• At the 2025 Law Middle East Awards, Bracewell was named a finalist for Corporate Team of the Year and Energy Team of the Year, for its work representing a consortium’ s successful bid, development, financing and shareholder arrangements of the 2-GW Al Sadawi solar PV project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Bracewell was named a finalist for Infrastructure and Energy Projects Team of the year by The Middle East Legal Awards in 2025.
• Bracewell was named Corporate Team of the Year at The Oath Middle East Legal Awards 2025, which honours the leading law firms, legal teams and practitioners for excellence and innovation in the Middle East legal market.
• We were shortlisted for Energy Team of the Year at Law. com International British Legal Awards 2025.
• Bracewell was a runner up for Energy & Infrastructure Team of the Year at the LexisNexis Middle East Legal Awards 2025.
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