The team at Badri and Salim El Meouchi LLP has expertise handling high-value financial matters, including shareholder transactions in the financial sector, Islamic finance compliance and the registration of foreign banks in Qatar, along with advising clients on complying with local finance-sector regulations. Chadia El Meouchi and Carine Farran oversee a range of high-value transactions in the financial sector.

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Key clients

  • Lesha Bank LLC Public / QFB
  • Al Ahli Bank
  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers
  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • European Investment Bank (EIB)
  • Construction Development Company LLC
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Matelec group
  • Pinsent Masons LLP
  • White & Case LLP
  • Lesha Bank LLC Public / QFB
  • Al Ahli Bank
  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Work highlights

  • Assisted a leading Qatari bank with the financing, through a term loan of 727 Million QAR, of the construction and development of a 128 key luxury resort.
  • Assisting, as local counsel, a banking and financial institution in various local law issues in relation to a financing of up to USD 1B involving a leading international sovereign wealth fund.
  • Representing the lenders and secured parties as to matters of the laws of the State of Qatar in the context of a complex transaction involving the incurrence of an 80 Million Euro Term Loans.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Chadia El Meouchi, Carine Farran