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Rad El Treki

Rad El Treki

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Al Tamimi & Company

Al Tamimi & Company

Bahrain

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Commercial, corporate and M&A

Fielding a team with ‘a unique cross-border capability in the GCC region’, Al Tamimi & Company's corporate and commercial practice is notably active across the fintech, real estate, insurance, oil and gas, and other regulated sectors, advising on regulatory matters, including corporate governance and setting up operations for domestic and multinational companies. It also supports clients with a broad range of restructurings, corporate M&A transactions, joint ventures, and other transactional matters. The team is led by Rad El Treki, who is noted for his presence in the oil and gas sector. Layla Alalawi is praised as an ’excellent draftsperson and adviser’ and is ably accompanied by Yara Frotan. Taimur Tufail is skilled in advising private equity and venture capital firms, multinational companies, and local businesses.
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Phone
+973 17 108 919
Email
[email protected]
Profile
tamimi.com

Profile

Work Department
Corporate
Position

Partner, Head of Office - Bahrain

Career

Rad is a UK qualified Partner and heads the firm’s Bahrain Office with over 20 years of experience practicing in the UK and across the GCC Region.

Rad leads the Bahrain office’s highly-ranked Corporate practice. He delivers a diversified and broad corporate offering with particular expertise in corporate finance, corporate, group re-structurings, cross border M&A and JVs. Additionally, Rad has a wealth of experience advising on the corporate aspects of big-ticket state mandated project financings, particularly within the energy / O&G sector. His extensive experience includes the start-up and scale-up space, advising entrepreneurs, incubation and acceleration centres, private equity firms, and venture capitalists in Bahrain and the wider region. He also regularly delivers related presentations, mentoring, coaching, and workshops.

Rad’s clients include domestic and international public and private companies, sovereign wealth funds, international conglomerates, private equity funds, venture capital firms and a wide range of start-up and scale up entities, including a number of the region’s ‘Unicorns’.

Rad qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2005 whilst working for a large UK regional law firm. From there, he moved to the Middle East, joining a first-tier firm in Qatar advising on some of the most significant projects in the country, before moving to the Riyadh office of a leading international firm, there after joining Al-Tamimi & Company in 2016.

Rad is ranked as a “Leading Individual” by Legal 500 and a “Ranked Lawyer” by Chambers & Partners for Corporate, Commercial and M&A, and is named as one of the 50 leading lawyers in the MENA region by Thomson Reuter’s Asia Legal Business in 2021, 2022. and 2023.

Languages
Arabic and English
Memberships
Solicitor of England and Wales.
Education

LLM Law, University of Edinburgh.

LLB Law (First Class Honours), London Metropolitan University.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Al Tamimi & Company's Commercial, Corporate, and M&A practice stands out due to its exceptional depth of expertise and regional knowledge.'

  • ‘Rad El Treki and his team are a good team. We often reach out to them for assistance with local/regional M&A transactions.’

Key clients

  • Arcapita Investment Management B.S.C.(c)
  • Bahrain National Holding Group

Work highlights

Advised Bahrain’s finance group, Bahrain Financing Company, on the sale of its group business and subsidiaries comprising banking, financial, cash management solutions, money exchange, money remittance, and transfer services and international payments services, to Al Ansari Financial Services PJSC.