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Latham & Watkins LLP Offices

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Dubai International Financial Centre
PO BOX 506698, DUBAI
United Arab Emirates
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Christian Adams

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Christian Adams represents corporates, sponsors, and lenders on a broad range of complex matters across the financing spectrum.
Drawing on his varied financing experience, Christian regularly advises clients on their most significant transactions across the Middle East and internationally. His work spans a multitude of industries, with a particular focus on the investment, hospitality, leisure and entertainment, energy, infrastructure, and real estate sectors.
Christian’s practice includes:
- Leveraged and acquisition financings
- Real estate financings
- General conventional and Islamic lending
- Refinancings and complex restructurings
- Distressed debt matters
Creative and commercially focused, Christian brings a proven track record of helping clients successfully navigate significant deals in the Middle East, including those involving bespoke deal structures.
Christian previously served as Vice President at the global investment company Dubai Holding, where he was responsible for financing, restructuring, and strategic transactional matters involving members of the Dubai Holding group and Dubai Holding affiliates.
Christian worked in the firm’s Dubai office from 2008 to 2017 and is a former member of the firm’s Associates and Pro Bono Committees.
Lawyer Rankings
United Arab Emirates > Banking and finance: Corporate finance (including Islamic lending)
(Next Generation Partners)Latham & Watkins LLP offers a comprehensive range of banking and finance services, including acquisition finance, project finance, restructurings, and refinancings. It also boasts a strong Islamic finance practice and is notably active in the growth-stage start-up sector, handling innovative debt financings. Practice head Christian Adams is recognised for his wide-reaching international expertise, leveraging his knowledge of the Middle East regulatory environment to advise on complex cross-border transactions across various sectors. Villiers Terblanche
plays a key role in civil aviation, transportation, and power deals, while Mustafa Darwich provides support across the full spectrum of mandates. Chirag Sanghrajka departed to Clifford Chance in September 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United Arab Emirates > Banking and finance: Corporate finance (including Islamic lending)
- Banking and finance: Corporate finance (including Islamic lending) United Arab Emirates