DLA Piper Middle East LLP‘s corporate and commercial practice is highly international, frequently multinational in cross-border mandates, such as M&As, joint ventures, regulatory matters, due diligence, and structurings. Mohamed Toorani heads the Bahrain office, and is recognised for his corporate and financial expertise. Paul McViety advises on Islamic finance, project finance and other transactions and chairs the team alongside Dubai-based Peter Somekh.
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Clients clés

  • Binance
  • Abdulla Al Abdulghani & Brothers W.L.L.
  • Bahrain Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (MTT)
  • Venture Capital Bank
  • GFH Financial Group
  • Mashreq Bank
  • Kuwait Investment Authority
  • Bank ABC
  • Al Salam Bank
  • Gulf International Bank

Points forts

  • Advised the Bahraini Ministry for Transport and Telecommunications on the procurement of a 109km above ground metro line PPP project.
  • Advised and assisted Binance Holdings Ltd, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, firstly on its license, from Bahrain’s central bank (CBB) to be a crypto-asset service provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
  • Riverstone, a leading private markets asset management firm, is an administrative agent, collateral agent and sustainability-linked loan coordinator under a sustainability linked term loan with the borrower, Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc.

Avocats

Responsable de la pratique

Mohamed Toorani; Peter Somekh; Paul McViety