Akusa Batwala > ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners > Kuwait City, Kuwait > Lawyer Profile
ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners Offices
Levels 36, 37 (main reception) & 38 Assima Tower
Othman Bin Affan St
Mirqab
Kuwait
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Akusa Batwala
Work Department
PPP & PFI Projects; Data Protection & Privacy; Government Procurement; Healthcare & Life Sciences; Media, Communication & Technology; Agency & Distributorship; Employment; Insurance; Construction
Position
Partner
Career
Akusa is a corporate and commercial law partner based in Kuwait and has been with the firm since 2008. Prior to joining ASAR, Akusa worked as in-house legal counsel with an international telecommunications company operating in Uganda.
Akusa has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law matters including the representation of local and foreign clients in employment, insurance, construction and agency/distributorship related matters. Akusa has also been extensively involved in some of the most prominent and groundbreaking PPP projects in Kuwait, in which she has been involved in advising the government of the State of Kuwait, sponsor consortiums and lenders.
Professional Experience
Languages
English
Memberships
Education
Lawyer Rankings
Kuwait > Privatisation and projects
(Leading individuals)The ‘knowledgeable and professional‘ team at ASAR – Al Ruwayeh & Partners is ‘extremely proficient in PPP‘, and is sought after for handling infrastructure matters and sizeable development projects. The client base includes the Kuwait government, banks, contractors and state-owned energy companies. Practice co-heads Ibrahim Sattout and Akusa Batwala ‘are innovative in their approach to finding solutions to complex problems‘ and continue to advise on some of Kuwait’s largest PPP projects concerning ports, transportation, utilities, power plants and industrial zones.