Al Tamimi & Company

Banking and Finance

Managing Partner

Jody is the Managing Partner of Al Tamimi and also Head of Banking & Finance across the MENA region. He brings over 17 years of experience practicing in the Middle East. Jody has extensive expertise in advising regulators, banks, finance companies, investment banks, and other financial institutions on a wide range of banking and finance matters.  He maintains a strong client roster featuring a number of major international banks as well as some of the region’s leading banks and financial institutions and regularly advises borrowers on corporate and property development financing transactions.

Jody is ranked across all leading legal directories confirming he is a respected practitioner, Legal 500 describes him as ‘technically excellent and diligent’.

His areas of expertise include:

Islamic finance Bi-lateral and syndicated lending transactions Project finance Security documents and structures Property and asset financing Product documentation (Islamic and conventional) Trade finance Restructuring and insolvency Regulatory

He is also an active member of the International Bar Association Banking Law Committee together with serving on the INSOL Editorial Board.

Recent Experience

Advising the lenders in relation to a AED 1.2bn Islamic (Istisna and Forward Ijara) financing for construction of sixteen residential projects in Dubai Advising the lenders on the Sweihan solar power plant in Abu Dhabi Advising the lenders on the DEWA solar power plant in Dubai, and the DEWA Hassyan coal power plant also in Dubai Advising HSBC on its redomicile into the Dubai International Financial Centre Advising Citibank UAE on the sale of its prepaid card business to Wirecard

English

2001 – New Zealand Bar

1998 – LLB, University of Waikato