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Delwar Hossain is a partner in the Firm's Global Banking & Finance Practice Group currently based in Baker McKenzie’s Riyadh office. Before joining Baker McKenzie, Delwar was a manager (documentation) in Dubai Islamic Bank and an in-house legal counsel in Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank. Delwar’s main areas of practice include Islamic finance, debt capital markets, project finance, loans & credit facilities and restructuring & insolvency.

Fatima is a partner in the Banking & Finance Practice Group of Baker McKenzie (focusing on Saudi Arabia and Bahrain) and a member of Baker McKenzie's Global R&I Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Firm’s global Alternative Capital team that provides best-in-class investment solutions for family offices, founders, sovereign wealth, and other sources of private capital. She is experienced in a broad range of conventional and Islamic banking and finance matters, focusing on financial restructuring and insolvency, project finance, corporate finance and trade finance. Fatima also has experience in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including international trade and commerce, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture partnerships and investment funds. Fatima is recognised as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Legal 500 and IFLR.

Khaled is a Partner and heads the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian real estate and hotels team. Khaled has experience in the commercial real estate industry in the Saudi Arabian and Bahraini markets and has a broad skill set, including a strong focus on real estate sales and acquisitions, hotels, leasing, and regulatory matters. He has extensive experience acting for hotel owners in negotiations of hotel management agreements for new and existing hotels, including branded residences and hotel franchises. He also advises master developers, sub-developers, and investment funds on large-scale mixed-use hotel, retail and residential developments, lettings and disposals. Prior to re-joining Baker McKenzie, Khaled was the General Counsel of the Bahrain Real Estate Investment Company (Edamah), the real estate arm of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Before that, Khaled spent close to 10 years at Baker McKenzie as part of the same real estate and hotels practice group in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.