We offer legal services to commercial banks, financial institutions and borrowers covering full range of financings including bilateral and syndicated loans, mezzanine lending, acquisition and bid finance, asset finance, project finance, PPP finance, real estate finance, debt restructuring and refinancing, multicurrency and cross-border financing, in addition to securities and collateral issues. Our finance team prides itself in representing two of the largest and most renowned institutions in both conventional and Islamic finance: the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Islamic Development Bank (IDB). The team represented the IFC in several project and infrastructure financings and represented IDB in Islamic sale and leaseback and murabaha financing. The Team has advised the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (“ICD”) on a number of Islamic finance transactions including its acquisition of a stake in Raya Holding for Technology and Telecommunication S.A.E., project finance through sale and lease back to Gracia Co., and related security package including real estate mortgage. We have significant experience in representing issuers and lead managers in debt capital markets transactions including convertible bonds, high yield bonds, medium term notes, credit-linked notes, equity-linked notes and commercial paper programs. The team also advised leading banks including UBS, City Group and Arab International Bank on a wide range of derivative transactions including interest rate swaps, foreign exchange hedges, option transactions, and commodity derivatives.
Banking and Finance
We have extensive experience and in-depth market knowledge across a full spectrum of financing transactions ranging from traditional financing, conventional and Islamic finance, to highly-leveraged and complex transactions.