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Zahid Kamal

Managing director, legal and investments | Fajr Capital

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Zahid Kamal leads the three-member legal team at Fajr Capital, a Dubai-based private equity investor whose shareholders include sovereign investors from Abu Dhabi, Brunei Darussalam, and Malaysia, as well as...

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Zahid Kamal is a Managing director at Fajr Capital and is actively involved in various aspects of Fajr Capital’s investments, including origination, execution, portfolio management, and strategic initiatives. Zahid is also a board and committee member, and is closely involved in several Fajr Capital portfolio companies, including Cravia Group, GEMS Education (which spun out into a CVC), National Petroleum Services (which exited out into a Nasdaq-listed SPAC) and a hazardous waste management business (exited to a Public Investment Fund subsidiary.  
 
Prior to joining Fajr Capital, Zahid was a senior lawyer at Ashurst LLP in London and Dubai, where he advised Fajr Capital and other corporate clients. Furthermore, Zahid is a member of the Middle East Council of the Global Private Capital Association. Zahid has over two decades of experience in public and private company transactions in the UK, Europe and the Middle East and North Africa, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, IPOs, investment funds, secondary offerings, restructurings, and joint ventures.  
 
Zahid is actively engaged with the Fajr Capital Foundation and various philanthropic initiatives, demonstrating his strong commitment to supporting social entrepreneurs. Within Fajr Capital, he is tasked with developing talent and has successfully supervised and nurtured two trainees into becoming qualified English solicitors. 

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