Al Tamimi & Company

Corporate, Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Structuring

Rad is a UK qualified Partner and heads the firm’s award winning 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 is a corporate specialist and delivers a diversified and broad corporate commercial offering with particular expertise in corporate finance, corporate structuring, 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 private equity firms and venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and incubation and acceleration centres, 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, thereafter, joining Al-Tamimi & Company in 2016.

Rad is ranked as a “Leading Individual” by Legal 500.

English & Arabic

2018 – LLM Law, University of Edinburgh 2001 – LLB Law (First Class Honours), London Metropolitan University