I've neve used them personally but I know parted can create them and it looks like the kernel option is CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION which is on by default in Debian, I don't have an Ubuntu machine to check ...
gdisk -- This program is modeled after Linux fdisk, but it operates on GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks rather than the Master Boot Record (MBR) disks that fdisk modifies. As such, gdisk is an ...
description: Provides a list of frequently asked questions about the GUID Partition Table disk architecture. The GUID Partition Table disk architecture was introduced as part of the Extensible ...