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Jawad Elazar

Associate
About
Jawad is an Associate in the Corporate practice based in the Dubai office with over four years of experience at global Tier 1 firms. Jawad has an array of experience focusing on private mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, shareholder and joint ventures arrangements, corporate structuring and reorganisations and company administration matters. He has acted for international and domestic clients across a broad range of sectors including energy and natural resources, technology, financial services, life science and industrials.
Areas of FocusCorporate

EXPERIENCE

  • Advised Tether on its joint venture with first ADX-listed cryptocurrency firm Phoenix Group to create a UAE Dirham-pegged stablecoin.
  • Sell-side tender of UAE, KSA and Qatar targets of a 40 CAC index global energy and services group.
  • Advised ZainTech on acquisition of Specialized Technical Services, a leading digital transformation solutions provider.
  • Other buy-side acquisitions include advising ADQ-backed entities and buyers seeking to acquire multi-jurisdictional businesses (inclusive of UAE, KSA, Qatar, UK, Canada, Egypt, Jordan and India).
  • Advised Mediclinic International on the divestment of several clinics and pharmacies in the UAE.
  • Advising a Fortune 500 company on its tender to sell certain of its subsidiaries and assets located in the GCC to prospective buyers.
  • Advising on and assisting with various corporate and licensing mandates within the UAE and KSA.
Languages
  • English
  • Arabic
Education