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Dubai

We resumed serving clients from Dubai in 2014 to further expand our Middle East presence. The office focuses on advising public and private sector clients in a range of practice areas in which our lawyers have broad experience, including energy, oil and gas, antibribery, economic sanctions and other international trade controls, debt and equity capital markets, Islamic and conventional finance, corporate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), public policy and dispute resolution, as well as construction and engineering, entertainment and other economic activity in the region.

Dubai is an international business hub that is strategically positioned as the business crossroads between Africa, Europe and Asia. The Dubai office furthers Akin’s commitment to place subject matter experts on the ground where our clients are and also serves as a base to support the firm’s expanding Africa practice.

The lawyers in our Dubai office include Arabic speakers to better serve our clients.

ICD Brookfield Place, Level 40
Al Mustaqbal Street
DIFC
Dubai, UAE

+971 4.317.3000

+971 4.317.3033

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ICD Brookfield Place, Level 40
Al Mustaqbal Street
DIFC
Dubai, UAE

+971 4.317.3000

+971 4.317.3033

Send Email

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Meet Our Dubai Team

Dubai Services & Sectors

Capital Markets

Our capital markets lawyers routinely advise issuers (comprising financial institution, corporate and sovereign issuers), underwriters, originators and corporate trustees across the full spectrum of international debt and equity capital markets transactions, often in first-of-their-kind offerings.

On the debt side, our team is particularly well known for advising on public and privately placed Sukuk offerings utilizing creative Shari’ah compliant structures. The team also advises on investment grade Eurobonds, equity and asset linked bonds, medium term note (MTN) programmes, regulatory capital and hybrid bonds and asset backed securities and securitisations.

On the equity side, our team has advised on initial public offerings (IPOs), rights issues and listings across a number of international and regional exchanges in transactions, which have often included a 144A component. The practice also advises on multijurisdictional securitisation and bond restructurings (including non-contentious amendments of Eurobonds and highly negotiated restructurings of defaulted bonds) and liability management exercises.