Meysan Partners

Corporate

Counsel

Lama Abou Ali is a Counsel at Meysan and a member of the firm’s Capital Markets and Projects practice.

Lama’s expertise focuses on Capital Markets, Project Development and Financing and M&A. She advised major local and international clients, including private and public institutions, and international organizations on infrastructure and energy projects, project finance and project acquisition and M&A.

Before joining Meysan, Lama worked as a consultant for a renowned English law firm land was the group legal counsel of a well-known bank in Lebanon for more than eight years, working on project finance and acquisition finance, structuring and leading cross-border syndicated loans transactions based on the Loan Market Association’s standards.

Key representative matters:

Advised the Kuwait ministry of communications on the fixed telecommunications network development PPP project for the design, financing, building, operating, maintaining, and transferring Kuwait's nationwide, high-speed fiber broadband network. Advised the Kuwait Ministry of Finance on the pre-development stage of Failakah resort and entertainment city including the concept, feasibility and legal framework. Designed and proposed legal structures for renewable energy and waste management projects. Advised consortiums of municipalities on the structuring of solid waste management projects. Created Inception Memorandums identifying and anticipating legal risks and needs . Drafted and negotiated a wide variety of agreements related to waste management and wind energy projects (PPAs, EPC, O&M, technical services, JV and grant agreements…). Advised on licensing and permitting requirements and assisted in securing permits for projects . Advised on environmental legal and regulatory requirements. Advised on the first IPP project financing in Lebanon (180 MW wind farms in North of Lebanon). Advised AAG, a major family-owned automotive retailer and the largest player in the premium automotive retail industry in Kuwait on the $3 billion private offering and premier market listing of their automotive operation, which represented the region’s first-ever family business offering.