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Our DLA Piper Kuwait practice provides a comprehensive range of legal services through a fully integrated joint venture with well established and reputable local firm (NEN) Al Wagayan, Al Awadhi & Al Saif.
We have a talented team of internationally trained and experienced lawyers with local know-how equipped to undertake the largest and most complex of legal matters in their fields of practice. These practice areas include:
- corporate (including private equity, capital markets and M&A)
- finance
- restructuring
- projects
- construction and real estate
- employment
- intellectual property and technology
- litigation and arbitration
- regulatory
Our services
Our team of multi-lingual lawyers service clients spanning the full spectrum of industries. We deliver unrivalled, pragmatic and commercially focused legal services on infrastructure, energy and natural resources projects, property development, real estate, aviation, hospitality, leisure, and corporate and commercial matters.
Through our depth of resources in Kuwait, the wider Middle East and our global practice, we can assist our clients in best achieving their operational and strategic needs.
We have long-standing relationships throughout the Middle East with clients who have ambitious growth plans internationally, and with multinational clients from outside the region who are expanding their Middle East operations.
Examples of our experience
- Advising a leading international bank on the establishment of a US$100m Sukuk Mousharaka with a major Kuwaiti real estate company.
- Advising a regional investment bank in successfully closing a US$.150m Mousharaka Trust for a leading Kuwaiti investment company.
- Advising a Kuwaiti based investment company on its special purpose vehicle in the Cayman Islands to purchase real estate in Qatar for the value of Qatari Rial 60m.
- Conducting due diligence and title transfers on US$130m worth of real estate around the Middle East and North Africa regions.
- Acted for a major Kuwaiti petrochemical company in the establishment of a consortium to finance, construct and operate a methanol production facility in Algeria.
- Advising on the structuring, implementation and all associated documentation of a Cayman Islands hedge fund established by a Kuwaiti Shari'a compliant company.
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