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Eoin Coffey is an associate in the Corporate M&A team at Paul Hastings. He has extensive experience advising on the acquisition, disposal, structuring and financing of energy, infrastructure and technology assets. He has advised corporates, government-related entities, sponsors and financial institutions on a wide range of corporate transactions, including public and private M&A, joint ventures, equity capital markets and various forms of financing. He also previously completed an 18-month secondment to an Abu Dhabi government-owned corporation in its Corporate & Investments team.
Representations
- XRG on all aspects of its multibillion-dollar acquisition of a significant minority interest in ExxonMobil’s $7 billion Baytown low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia production facility in Texas (Awarded Energy Transition Deal of the Year, North America by the IJGlobal Investor Americas Awards 2025).
- ADNOC on the acquisition of a 30% stake in Absheron offshore gas project from SOCAR and TotalEnergies.
- ADNOC on its acquisition of an interest in Masdar and the creation of a world-leading green hydrogen investment platform.
- ADNOC Drilling on its initial public offering.
- ACWA Power on its $693 million acquisition of ownership interests in power generation, water desalination and associated O&M companies in Kuwait and Bahrain from Engie SA.
- Communication and Renewable Energy Infrastructure on the sale of 100% of its Philippines telecommunications business (CREI Phils Inc.), to Frontier Tower Associates Philippines Inc., a KKR portfolio company.
- Dow on the sale of its 50% ownership interest in the DowAksa joint venture (a manufacturer of carbon fire and carbon fibre composites in Turkiye).
- DUBAL Holding and TAQA on the $1.9 billion acquisition and grid integration of captive power and water assets in Abu Dhabi.
- Enersol (a joint venture between ADNOC Drilling and Alpha Dhabi Holding) on its $225 million acquisition of a 95% equity stake in Deep Well Services, a leader in lateral drilling through advanced technologies and services within the energy sector in the U.S.
- Fertiglobe on its initial public offering.
- Halal Products Development Company (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia) on its investment into Believe Pte, a global halal cosmetics and personal care company (and redomiciling of Believe Pte’s operations from Singapore to Saudi Arabia).
- Masdar on its investment in the 1.5GW Al Ajban solar project (awarded Energy Transition Deal of the Year by the IJGlobal Awards 2024).
- JERA on its joint venture with CF Industries and Mistui to develop the $4 billion “Blue Point” low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia export facility in Louisiana, U.S.
- NEOM on its joint venture with ACWA Power and Air Products on the $8.4 billion NEOM Green Hydrogen Project, the world’s first green ammonia export megaproject to take FID and sign definitive offtake and financing agreements.
- Scatec ASA on its joint venture with Fertiglobe and Orascom for the Egypt Green Hydrogen Project, which won the first competitive public tender for the import of green ammonia into Europe under the H2Global/Hint.co program in 2024.
- Solar Philippines on the announced acquisition by MGreen of a 50.5% stake in its publicly traded subsidiary (PSX:SPNEC) to fund the company’s Terra Solar project, one of the largest solar plus storage projects in the world (3,500 MW of solar capacity and 4,000 MWh of battery energy storage capacity).
- The financiers on the $12.5 billion joint venture for the Jazan IGCC/ASU project, the largest grey hydrogen project in the world (awarded “Global Deal of the Year” by the PFI Awards, 2021; and “MENA Hybrid Energy Deal of the Year” at the IJGlobal Awards 2021).
- Vision Invest on all aspects of its acquisition of a significant minority interest in Green Sky Capital (a sustainable aviation fuel platform).