Profile
Anastasia Kastelskaya is a construction and projects lawyer based in Dubai. She advises sponsors, developers, government-owned entities, general contractors, and bidding consortia on major projects in conventional and renewable power, nuclear energy, water, transportation (roads, rail, airports), mining, industrial, health care, commercial, and residential sectors. Anastasia supports clients throughout the project lifecycle, including structuring and tendering, drafting and negotiating contracts, implementation, and construction claims.
Anastasia was at a major global law firm in Moscow before relocating to Dubai in 2022, where she has been based ever since, before joining Greenberg Traurig. Prior to that, she worked in an Italian oil and gas contractor, where she focused on LNG projects, before returning to private practice in June 2013.
Concentrations
- Infrastructure, utilities, and energy
- PPA
- Construction
Áreas de Atuação
Experiência
- Contract Administrator, Saipem, 2008-2013
- Represented one of the bidders in their bid for the Saadiyat Island reverse omosis IWP procured by the Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) in Abu Dhabi.°
- Advised lenders to a bidding consortium in their bid for the Madinat Zayed IWP procured by the Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) in Abu Dhabi.°
- Advised lenders supporting one of the bidders in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its bid for the district cooling development, design, financing, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, testing, operation and maintenance, and ownership and transfer of Rua Al Madinah District Cooling Project in Madinah.°
- Advised lenders supporting a consortium of bidders on the ZATCA Customs Zone Project of developing and operating customs warehouses at six land ports and land crossings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (procured by ZATCA).°
- Represented lenders to the successful bidding consortium for the Tanajib Camp Complex Expansion and Refurbishment project, procured by Saudi Aramco in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.°
- Advised lenders supporting the successful bidder on the Saudi National Water Company’s LTOM Package 7, which involved refurbishment and maintenance of four sewage treatment plants in the Al Ahsa Governorate.°
- Represented lenders to the successful bidding consortium, led by ACWA Power, on the US$1.2 billion Taweelah desalination IWP in Abu Dhabi.°
- Advised a Saudi developer on the construction and maintenance of multiple new data centers to be developed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.°
- Represented a bidding consortium in their bid for Repdo Round 6 Solar and Wind IPPs with total capacity 4,500 MW, procured by the Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC).°
- Represented one of the bidders in their bid for Repdo Round 5 Solar IPPs procured by the Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC).°
- Represented lenders to the successful consortium on a US$2 billion desalination and water transmission pipeline project procured by ADNOC.°
- Advised lenders supporting a consortium of bidders on the Riyadh – Qassim IWTP supplying water to Riyadh and Qassim regions and its related governorates with 685,000 m3 per day of potable water (procured by SWPC).°
- Advised lenders supporting a bidding consortium for the Jubail-Buraydah Independent Water Transmission Pipeline.°
- Advised a UAE state owned entity on the design and build of a new logistics warehouse in Dubai South.°
- Advised a potential investor in a groundbreaking iron ore project spanning across Cameroon and Republic of Congo with a projected output of 35Mtpa of iron ore for at least 30 years.°
- Represented a private natural resources company headquartered in Luxembourg on the design and construction of a copper and cobalt reprocessing plant and acid plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo.°
- Represented a UAE Ministry on and drafting a bulk power supply agreement between two UAE government owned entities.°
- Represented EMICOOL on a Master Agreement with Dubai World Trade Centre for providing district cooling services to EXPO Village, conference and exhibition centre and RTA stations.°
- Represented the lenders to the successful bidding consortium on the Namangan wastewater PPP project in Uzbekistan.°
- Advised a leading Brazilian food group on the design and build of a poultry manufacturing plant in the KSA.°
- Advising one of the world leading banks on fit out contracts for their headquarters in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.°
- Represented lenders to a bidding consortium on a health care PPP in Dubai, including on the building and services contracts.°
- Advising Mubadala on a suite of agreements for a standout project in Maryah Island, Abu-Dhabi (including design, construction, cost management and project management agreements).°
- Represented IRC Limited on a Chinese contractor’s construction an iron ore processing plant at Kimkan and Sutar deposits in Russian Far East, including advising on implementation of the EPC contract.°
- Represented Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and its subsidiaries on international projects for the construction of nuclear power plants in Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Hungary, China, and Belarus, providing advice on real estate, design, construction, corporate, commercial, and regulatory issues.°
- Represented the Italian-Turkish JV IC Ictas-Astaldi as the general contractor on the implementation of two PPPAs for the extension of Pulkovo International Airport and construction of the toll motorway in Saint Petersburg, Russia.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Kastelskaya prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig
Credenciais
Educação
- LL.B., cum laude, Russian Academy for Foreign Trade
- Doctorate degree, EU Law (focus on competition, civil, and commercial law), Università degli Studi di Milano
Admissões
- Dubai Legal Consultant
- England and Wales
- Russia
Idiomas
- Inglês, Fluente
- Russian, Native
- Italian, Fluente
- French, Conversational