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Haz Arshad

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+971 589 227 017 [email protected] View profile

Work Department

Corporate Spin-Outs, Food and Beverage, Foreign Investment Review, Hospitality and Leisure, Private Equity, Real Estate Investments, Intellectual Property and Technology Intellectual, Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions

Position

Haz Arshad is a senior associate based in Dentons’ Dubai office and is a member of the Corporate and Commercial practice.

He has more than 15 years of commercial legal experience and has been advising on corporate transactional matters for more than eight years. He regularly works with listed companies, private companies, management teams, entrepreneurs and start-ups (advising on a range of transactions including complex mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital investments, corporate restructurings and general corporate governance matters) and is a former board member of the Northwest Regional Development Agency in the UK, an advisory and strategic body responsible for the development of BME businesses at a national and regional level.

Haz is experienced in advising on a wide variety of sectors including technology, media and telecommunications, financial services, FMCG, real estate and hospitality, to name a few, and is regularly recognized by clients and colleagues for his proactive, pragmatic and constructive approach.

Career

  • Confidential client: Advising on a joint venture with Ask Developments to deliver a £300 million property development in the heart of Manchester.*
  • Confidential client: Advising a listed company on a series of multi-million-pound acquisitions in the software sector, reporting directly to its board of directors.*
  • Confidential client: Advising on the establishment an employee ownership trust (EOT) for one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of bedding products.*
  • Confidential client: Advising a UK restaurant chain on its corporate restructuring and subsequent acquisition of another fast food brand.*
  • Confidential client: Advising on a £7.5 million joint venture between a client and a listed company in the retail and hospitality sector.*

Languages

English

Memberships

Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2008

Education

College of Law, 2005, Legal Practice Course

Queen Mary University of London, 2003, LLB (Hons)

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