Sadaf Buchanan > Dentons > Muscat, Oman > Lawyer Profile

Dentons
AL FANNAR BUILDING, 2ND AND PENTOUSE FLOORS
BUILDING NO569, WAY NO 3009, SHATTI AL QURUM, RUWI
112 RUWI, MUSCAT
Oman

Work Department

Banking and Finance

Position

Sadaf heads up the tier 1 ranked Banking and Finance team in Muscat and has more than 15 years’ experience in restructuring and finance work. She previously spent some time in-house on secondment to a leading international bank in Edinburgh.

Sadaf works alongside both lenders and borrowers in advising on security issues and options, enforcement (both solvent and insolvent routes) and commercial lending and borrowing and has also advised on a number of the landmark debt capital markets transactions from the Sultanate.

She has broad experience in acting on both local and international deals and advising banks, businesses, shareholders and other stakeholders in relation to business restructurings and financing issues involving a variety of sectors from hotel and leisure to oil and gas as well as many international companies and financial institutions considering doing business in Oman.

Sadaf also heads up the Islamic Finance initiative for the Oman office and has been awarded ”leading individual” status by The Legal 500 directory for her work in Oman.

Languages

English

Lawyer Rankings

Oman > Banking and finance

(Hall of Fame)

Sadaf BuchananDentons

At Dentons, the banking practice is led by Sadaf Buchanan, who brings over two decades of experience in advising on Islamic finance and restructuring matters. She is well versed in assisting lenders and borrowers with securities, leveraged finance, and debt capital markets transactions, and is widely recognised as a co-founder of the firm’s women’s network Sayyidaat Dentons. Buchanan is ably supported by senior associate Justine Harding in high-value financing matters.