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David Pang

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Work Department

Areas of focus Construction and Engineering, Corporate Governance, Education Regulation, Family Office and High net worth, Health Care, Mergers and Acquisitions, Oil and Gas, Private Equity, Renewables, Retail, Technology, Transportation, Freight and Logistics

Position

David Pang is a senior legal consultant based in Dentons’ Dubai office and is a member of the Corporate and Commercial practice. In addition, David is an adjunct lecturer in company law at Middlesex University (Dubai), a compliance practitioner with the International Compliance Association, and author of various technical know-how and practice notes of a number of prominent legal publications.

David has more than 15 years of experience advising clients on complex, high-value and cross-border M&A transactions, general commercial contracts, corporate structuring/restructuring, and corporate governance and compliance related issues. He regularly advises on private equity and venture capital investments, share and/or asset acquisitions/disposals, joint venture arrangements, legal due diligence, and commercial contracts throughout the Middle East, with a particular focus on advising clients from APAC.

He has represented a range of clients, including private and listed companies, entrepreneurs and start-ups, ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices, sovereign wealth funds, private equity and venture capital funds, banking and financial institutions involving transactions across all industry sectors.

Recognised by Legal 500 as a key lawyer for commercial, corporate and M&A work in the UAE, David brings a clear understanding of the synergies between commercial acumen, risk mitigation and practical solutions as demanded by in-house general counsel and legal teams having been seconded to a national oil company, a renewable energy private equity fund and an ultra-high net worth Hong Kong family office.

Career

• Confidential client: Advising a renewable energy private equity in the asset purchase of a 50MW wind farm project in Jordan from a Chinese state-owned entity.*
• Confidential client: Advising a confidential international oil company in the acquisition of an upstream asset in Asia from a national oil company via an auction process.*
• Confidential client: Advising a KSA investment fund on the acquisition of one of the top five waste management and environmental solutions companies in the Middle East.*
• Confidential client: Advising a premier retail group (located in BVI and UAE) in the restructuring of 40 companies (prior to a potential equity investment of US$500 million by a third party) operating 50+ international franchises across MENA.*
• Confidential client: Advising a leading heavy machinery manufacturer in structuring and implementation of joint ventures (contractual and corporate) and the appointment of commercial agents, distributors and franchise holders in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan.*
• National oil company: Seconded as special legal counsel for ten months to advise on all corporate and commercial legal matters in connection with the company’s downstream diversification and digital transformation strategy.*
• Renewable energy private equity fund: Seconded as senior vice president (Legal) for three months to advise on various corporate transactions, general commercial matters, and group financing and capital raising.*
• Ultra-high net worth Hong Kong family office: Seconded to advise on various corporate investments, commercial, structuring, governance and compliance matters.

Languages

Cantonese, English, Mandarin

Memberships

Compliance Practitioner, International Compliance Association, 2022

Practitioner of Law, Dubai Legal Affairs Department, 2013

Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2010