• Advising the arrangers on a US$1.1 billion facility for the construction and development of the Dubai Parks and Resorts theme park
• Advising a leading GCC telecommunications company on a AED4.5bn syndicated financing made available by 8 banks
• Advising on the liquidation of the largest private equity company in emerging markets with assets under management of approximately US$13 billion
• Advising a Qatari financial institution (as borrower) in respect of US$7.6 billion of syndicated loan facilities
• Advising Dubai Group on its US$7 billion corporate debt restructuring with 44 banks
• Advising certain lenders in respect of the facilities made available to the NMC Health plc, the embroiled global healthcare provider that was recently put into administration in the UK
• Advising the creditor committee in respect of the US$1.6bn restructuring of the prominent UAE investment group, KBBO
• Advising the creditor committee in respect of the US$1.3bn restructuring of Finablr Plc the formerly LSE listed holding company of UAE Exchange and Travelex
• Advising the arrangers in respect of a QAR1,358,000,000 financing for the development of a shopping mall in Lusail, Doha 
• Advising Tornado Company in obtaining a QAR 1.458bn (approx. USD$400mn) financing from Doha Bank by way of a 13-year tenored term facility, secured by a legal mortgage over Doha's iconic and award winning Tornado Tower
• Advising the arrangers in connection with the US$250 million real estate financing to Meraas in respect of the construction and development of the City Walk and Box Park developments in Dubai
• Advising Damas LLC on its AED3 billion restructuring with 25 banks
• Advising the project company and the sponsors (the Ministry of Finance in Oman and Oman Oil Corporation) in relation to the US$1.2 billion financing of the Sohar Refinery Project with loans sourced from a syndicate of international commercial banks, regional banks and JBIC and backed by political and commercial risk insurance from Nexi
• Advising the Kuwait sponsor in respect of the US$1 billion Reem Mall project in Abu Dhabi
• Advising the lenders to the winning bidder on DEWA's 800MW solar energy project in Dubai
• Advising the lender on financing the AED1.1 billion purchase of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, DIFC
• Advising Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC (Zain KSA) on a US$1.3 billion syndicated loan facility comprising a term loan and a revolving credit facility
• Advising the lenders in relation to a AED600 million syndicated facility as part of the development and construction of Dubai Festival City 
• Advising Drydocks World on its US$2.3 billion corporate debt restructuring
• Advising Natixis, Bayerische and Calyon in connection with the original US$2.5 billion financing and subsequent US$900 million bridge financing of the Shuweihat S2 IWPP in Abu Dhabi
• Advising a syndicate of banks in relation to various commercial and ECA backed facilities for the US$2.8 billion financing of the Sohar Refinery Improvement Project in Oman
• Advising Lafarge Emirates Cement on its US$300 million debt restructuring with 12 banks
• Advising Al Khalij Commercial Bank on a US$280 million Egyptian hotel financing
• Advising the arrangers in connection with a AED1.02 billion dual currency real estate financing for Damas Real Estate
• Advising the Qatari lender in respect of a USD1,400,000,000 debt restructuring of a major Qatari conglomerate
• Advising the lenders in connection with the US$190 million real estate financing to Meraas in respect of the Blue Waters hotel to be constructed on Blue Waters Island, Dubai
• Acting for the Qatari lender in its provision of USD$250mn mezzanine financing for the construction of towers in East Village (the old Olympic Village), London
• Advising the arrangers in respect of a US$293 million financing to Al Noor and Emirates Healthcare (part of the Mediclinic Group)
• Advising the lenders to a bidder on ADWEA's Sweihan solar energy project in Abu Dhabi
• Advising the lenders in connection with the financing of Sumitomo and Malakoff's successful bid for the US$5.5 billion Ras Azzour IWPP in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Advising the lenders in connection with the US$2.5 billion financing and subsequent US$900 million bridge financing of the Shuweihat S2 IWPP in Abu Dhabi
• Advising the Abu Dhabi Investor Corporation in relation to the Mafraq-Ghweifat Highway PPP Project (value US$2.7 billion), the UAE's first transport PPP Project
• Advising Shuweihat CMS International Power Co on the implementation by ADWEA of a site-wide terrorism scheme at the Shuweihat Complex in Abu Dhabi 
• Advising the winning consortium on the Muharraq Wastewater BOO project in Bahrain
• Advising the arrangers in relation to a US$1 billion term loan facility for the Commercial Bank of Qatar 

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