Key contacts
Legal Counsel & Managing Partner: Hossam Abdullah
Quick facts
Number of lawyers
16
Languages
English, Arabic, French
Key practice areas
Financial and corporate
M&A
Firm overview
Al-Hossam Legal (Legal Consultants & Attorneys) provides high-end quality legal services and in-depth long experience (from 27 to 42 years) on major and landmark complex legal files and transactions in Kuwait and GCC as well as many Shari`ah deals in Asia, Europe and the U.S.A. The firm focus on corporate, commercial, banking & finance (including Islamic finance), capital markets, M&A and high value commercial litigations to selected major local and international banks, corporations and private clients representing full range of industry sector.
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Key transactional practices
- Asset finance
- Banking
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Derivatives
- Capital markets: Equity
- Capital markets: High yield
- Covered bonds
- Financial restructuring
- Financial services regulatory
- Hedge funds
- Investment funds
- Islamic finance
- M&A
- PPP/PFI
- Private equity
- Private equity funds
- Project bonds
- Project development
- Project finance
- Real estate finance
- Real estate funds
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Securitisation
- Structured finance/securitisation
- Trade finance
Key practice contacts and recent transactional highlights
Corporate, Banking, Finance, M&A & Capital Markets:
hossam@hossamlegal.com
Recent transactional highlights:
- Advised during the last year on more than US$14 billion M&A, capital market, banking, finance and project finance transactions, samples are:
- Advised Oliver Wyman and KAMCO Investment, as co-advisors, to the Capital Market Authority on the landmark privatization of Boursa Kuwait (the Kuwait Stock Exchange) through auction process of 44% awarded to a consortium led by Athens Stock Exchange and sale 6% to Public Institute for Social Security.
- Advised Alghanim Trading Co in the US$814 million acquisitions of a total 26% shares in Gulf Bank through sophisticated off market trades including the US$520 million public auction from the Kuwait Investment Authority.
- Advised Ahli Bank in the US$470 million syndicated facility to ALAFCO Aviation Co.
- Advised Al-Rajhi Bank in the US$400 million syndicated finance to Warba Bank.
- Advised a syndication of Ahli Bank and Boubyan Bank in the US$360 million project finance for the J3 investment opportunity in Jaber Al-Ahmad City to a bidding consortium.
Sector expertise
- Automotive
- Aviation
- Banking
- Construction and materials
- Consumer goods and services
- Energy
- Financial services
- Government and public policy
- Industrials
- Insurance
- Investment management
- Oil and gas
- Real estate
- Shipping
- Tech and telecoms
- Utilities
Address:
Tel:+ (965) 2290 9261
Fax:+(965) 2290 9260
Email:Contact Us
Web Address:http://www.hossamlegal.com
KIPCO Tower, 44th Floor
Khalid Ben Al-Waleed Street, Sharq,
Kuwait City, 2290 Safat, 13021
