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DLA Piper Middle East LLP Offices

DLA Piper Middle East LLP
OFFICE 701, LEVEL 7 THE ADDRESS TOWER, BUILDING 655
ROAD 3614, BLOCK 436, AL SEEF DISTRICT
MANAMA
Bahrain
Visit website 973 1755 0890 973 1755 0887

DLA Piper Middle East LLP > The Legal 500 Rankings

Bahrain > Banking and finance (including Islamic finance) Tier 2

DLA Piper Middle East LLP‘s banking and finance division holds broad expertise in transactional matters and is recommended for advisory work in the financial sector. The team is experienced in matters involving the facilitation and financing of large-scale projects, being frequently retained by government ministries, along with structuring and due-diligence-related work for loan and stake transactions. The team is headed by Mohamed Toorani, who is active in local and foreign jurisdictions, particularly in the Gulf, and is well supported by co-heads Paul McViety and James Iremonger from Dubai.

Practice head(s):

Mohamed Toorani; James Iremonger; Paul McViety

Other key lawyers:

Peter Somekh

Key clients

Binance

Riverstone Credit Management LLC

Mashreq Bank PSC

Ali Zaid Al Quraishi & Brothers

Arab Bank

Work highlights

  • Advised the Bahraini Ministry for Transport and Telecommunications on the procurement of a 109km above ground metro line PPP project.
  • Advised and assisted Binance Holdings Ltd to be a crypto-asset service provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Bahrain > Commercial, corporate and M&A Tier 2

DLA Piper Middle East LLP‘s corporate and commercial practice is highly international, frequently multinational in cross-border mandates, such as M&As, joint ventures, regulatory matters, due diligence, and structurings. Mohamed Toorani heads the Bahrain office, and is recognised for his corporate and financial expertise. Paul McViety advises on Islamic finance, project finance and other transactions and chairs the team alongside Dubai-based Peter Somekh.

Practice head(s):

Mohamed Toorani; Peter Somekh; Paul McViety

Key clients

Binance

Abdulla Al Abdulghani & Brothers W.L.L.

Bahrain Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (MTT)

Venture Capital Bank

GFH Financial Group

Mashreq Bank

Kuwait Investment Authority

Bank ABC

Al Salam Bank

Gulf International Bank

Batelco

Rain Financial

Environmental Chemical Corporation

Roche

Sabre

Arab Bank

Kuwait Finance House

Bahrain Islamic Bank

Work highlights

  • Advised the Bahraini Ministry for Transport and Telecommunications on the procurement of a 109km above ground metro line PPP project.
  • Advised and assisted Binance Holdings Ltd, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, firstly on its license, from Bahrain’s central bank (CBB) to be a crypto-asset service provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
  • Riverstone, a leading private markets asset management firm, is an administrative agent, collateral agent and sustainability-linked loan coordinator under a sustainability linked term loan with the borrower, Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc.

Bahrain > Dispute resolution Tier 3

Leveraging the firm's strong international presence, DLA Piper Middle East LLP has a strong track record in contentious matters in the energy, financial and construction segments, and frequently oversees cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration involving insolvencies, debt claims, and contract breaches. Mohamed Toorani co-heads the team with  Andrew Mackenzie, both sought after by clients for their experience in major arbitration forums.

Practice head(s):

Mohamed Toorani; Andrew Mackenzie

Testimonials

‘Whenever we have a matter in the Middle East, we contact DLA’s Bahrain office because they are a great hub in terms of designating the right lawyers for the job. ’

‘Mohamed Toorani: He is an inspiring individual, particularly in client and colleague relationship management. ’

Key clients

Venture Capital Bank

MoneyCorp

Bahrain Islamic Bank

Kuwait Finance House

GFH Financial Group

Gulf International Bank

Kuwait Investment Authority

Mashreq Bank

Al Salam Bank

Sabre Corporation

Work highlights

  • Assisted AZAQ in negotiating a settlement agreement with one of the international companies that manufacture motors in Taiwan, as part of the Taiwanese company’s exit of the joint venture.

DLA Piper Middle East LLP > Firm Profile

Global co-chairs: Jon Hayes and Frank W Ryan
Co-chief executive officers: Charles Severs and Frank W Ryan
Number of partners: 1,500+
Number of lawyers: 6,000+
Offices: Lawyers located in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

Please see https://www.dlapiper.com for further information about the firm.

Firm Overview:

Tenacious and driven, DLA Piper people translate legal complexities into commercial clarity: providing the right minds at the right time to help clients to navigate both risk and opportunity. Our lawyers deliver pragmatic actionable solutions to your pressing business challenges, in every part of the globe, so you can understand, decide, and act.

Our people are as adept at spotting opportunities as they are in protecting you against risk. Our culture encourages fresh thinking, to anticipate what’s next, supported by continuous investments in legal and business technology.

The result is joined-up legal counsel and informed commercial advice across multiple geographies and all sectors: creative solutions that draw on an international platform with the power to scale up and down, flexing to meet any client aspirations. We measure success one relationship at a time, serving you locally and in any location: we bring the world closer for our clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate: DLA Piper’s corporate lawyers support the world’s leading enterprises, emerging startup companies and financial institutions in their development and investment activities. From mergers and acquisitions and venture capital to private and public equity and debt offerings, the firm assists clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes.

Employment: DLA Piper’s employment practice advises clients worldwide on employment legislation, helping them meet their workforce objectives.

The firm partners with its clients, wherever they do business, to find solutions and manage risk in relation to their employment, incentives and pensions legal challenges and objectives. The firm assists with acquisitions, outsourcings, expansions or reductions-in-force, local or international employee relations, data privacy or data protection, local, cross-border or collective litigation, local or multi-jurisdictional compliance, risk management. Its clients range from startups to emerging multinationals and some of the biggest and best-known global brands in the world.

Finance: DLA Piper’s Finance group offers comprehensive, cross-border advice on financing, restructuring, and projects, leveraging one of the largest teams of dedicated finance lawyers globally. We support clients, including public and private companies, asset managers, financial institutions, and government entities, in realising their financial strategies across various sectors and markets. Often involved in pioneering deals, our work spans lending, debt securities, derivatives, energy and infrastructure projects, and handling distressed situations and insolvencies.

Intellectual Property & Technology: DLA Piper is one of the most widely recognised providers of a full range of commercial, intellectual property law, privacy, sourcing and technology law services for leading businesses worldwide. Its lawyers provide both litigation-related (contentious) and strategic commercial advice to a wide range of industry sectors, helping clients from emerging technology and pharmaceutical companies to established banks and financial institutions achieve their objectives wherever they do business.

Litigation & Regulatory: DLA Piper’s lawyers are skilled in litigation, arbitration, investigations and ADR and will deploy that experience to help devise the best strategies. The firm has the local knowledge to apply the regulatory, economic, political and cultural context to legal issues and develop case strategies. It regularly handles technically challenging and complex multi-jurisdictional matters.

DLA Piper’s International Trade, Regulatory and Government Affairs team provides advice at all stages of the regulatory process. Advising on regulatory law, the firm focuses on areas such as international trade, antitrust and competition, global governance and more.

Real Estate: DLA Piper’s market-leading real estate group offers a full range of real estate services, including single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, single asset and multi-property/programmatic joint ventures, fund formation, operating company investments, cross-border investments, REITs, financing, construction and design, leasing, zoning/land-use, environmental law, real estate litigation and tax.

Tax: DLA Piper provides advice on local and national tax, and a commercially integrated approach to cross-border structures and tax efficiency. It offers the full range of tax services that address the challenges of international commerce and business operations, including arranging operations to reduce effective global tax rates, transfer pricing, tax disputes and post-acquisition integration.

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