Firm Name:
Al Hamad Legal Group
City:
State of Kuwait
Corporate Transactions Contact Attorneys:
- Salim Ali, Partner
- Dania Tyan – Counsel
- Mohamad Fouad- Counsel
- Ashley Freeman – Counsel
- Fahad AL Salem- Counsel
Types of Corporate Transactions in Which Our Firm Has Particular Expertise
Our team provides a wide range of corporate transaction services to governments, major corporations, and privately-owned businesses. The Firm’s expertise spans transactional, regulatory, advisory, and litigation & dispute resolution areas.
Specializing in facilitating foreign joint ventures, offering comprehensive support from creation to disposition, including management throughout the venture’s lifecycle. Our team is adept at advising clients on business structuring, establishment, operations, and eventual winding up and liquidation.
With a proven track record, we have successfully advised on numerous M&A deals across various sectors over the past two years. Our services encompass the entire M&A process, including structuring, due diligence, drafting documentation and agreements, and navigating procedural and regulatory requirements for seamless deal closure. Notably, we have acted as transaction advisor to merging companies registered with the Kuwait Capital Market and have provided counsel to both buyers and sellers in multiple acquisitions of shares and assets.
we have amassed unparalleled experience in all forms of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) transactions and agreements because, our firm has served as the trusted legal advisor to the Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) for four years. In addition to the above ,
our dedicated team provides expert guidance in the realm of Banking and Finance, on regulatory compliance, private equity, Islamic and conventional financing, and capital markets By handling matters of refinancing and debt restructuring, offering strategic solutions tailored to our clients’ needs.
The Size Of Our Firm’s Corporate Transactions Team
Al Hamad Legal Group corporate transactions team includes 2 partners and 10 lawyers with various experiences in different jurisdiction and area of Practice.
Examples Of Transactions Our Firm Has Undertaken
- Represented and supported a Kuwaiti renewable energy developer in the formulation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with various governmental entities. The MOU is designed to facilitate the acquisition of carbon offsets aligning with the Paris Agreement, to which Kuwait is a committed signatory, and in accordance with the UNFCCC.
- Advised Kuwaiti renewable energy developer in Kuwait’s carbon reduction endeavors, in extending its expertise to several African nations implementing carbon reduction strategies and sustainability practices, contributing to the global effort to combat climate change.
- Advising US defense companies on critical infrastructure protection, ICT, cybersecurity and secured communications solutions and smart solutions in Kuwait, KSA and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
- Assisted acquisitions of Telecom licenses on behalf of Government owned entities
- Assisted a Kuwaiti media company launch into television station and broadcasting,
- Assisted a foreign company’s entry in Kuwait and region addressing content and licensing requirements, technology initiatives, organizational commitments, operations, and customer-facing services.
- Assisting a leading towers management operator in ensuring permitting and compliance of tower infrastructure at the national level.
- Represented several e-commerce companies negotiating and concluding e-commerce transactions agreements, such as software development, outsourcing, hosting, e-commerce websites development, marketing and alliance agreements.
- Assisting clients in IT Systems and Procurement – for the procurement of IT systems and related vendor services. In advising clients in this area, we help craft RFIs and RFPs, devise implementation strategies, identify risks and ensure that software development and implementation contracts are in sync with our clients’ needs.
- Advising clients on Licensing and Negotiations – Advising clients on licensing agreements, joint ventures, contract negotiations and other business legal issues related to technology acquisition and implementation, including advising on contracts with software vendors, managed services providers, outsourcing and hosting companies.
- Advising Health Informatics company on corporate structure and finance issues and identifying and negotiating joint venture arrangements with intellectual property issues for start-up companies or strategic alliances regarding new technology in the healthcare industry.