Gamal M. Abouali

Several leading UAE sovereign wealth funds in co-investments, fund and other direct investments in numerous multibillion-dollar transactions

OMV in connection with its purchase of a 15% stake in ADNOC Refining, giving the unit an enterprise value of $19.3 billion

OCI in its strategic partnership with ADNOC, combining ADNOC Fertilizer with OCI’s MENA nitrogen fertilizer platform to form a new joint venture which will become the largest export-focused nitrogen fertilizer platform globally

OCI in its €310 million acquisition of DSM Agro and DSM Melamine from Royal DSM

ADIA in connection with its participation in a consortium with EQT Fund Management S.à r.l. and other renowned institutional investors, in exclusive negotiations to acquire Nestlé Skin Health from Nestlé S.A. for an enterprise value of CHF 10.2 billion

ADIA and TPG in a $1.2 billion joint equity investment into UPL Corporation Limited (UPLC), the international arm of UPL Limited

Wind Telecom S.p.A. (formerly Weather Investments S.p.A.), the mobile telecommunications company led by Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris, in its combination with VimpelCom, in a deal valued at $21 billion, creating one of the world’s largest mobile telecommunications carriers

Weather Investments II in its sale of common shares in VimpelCom to Altimo for $3.6 billion.

Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding in the $1 billion sale of its direct and indirect stakes in MobiNil to Orange and resulting mandatory tender offer by Orange

Lafarge in its $15 billion acquisition (including the assumption of debt) of the cement business of Orascom Construction Industries and in the entry of the Sawiris family, OCI’s reference shareholders, in Lafarge’s share capital

Etisalat in its acquisition of Atlantique Telecom in four phases

Finmeccanica and its subsidiaries Alenia Aeronautica and Alenia Aermacchi in hi-tech industrial partnerships in the aerospace sector with Mubadala Development Company

Philip Morris International in its acquisition of 49% of the shares of Arab Investors-TA for $625 million and in its agreement with Trans-Emirates Trading & Investment to create a new cigarette manufacturing and distribution JV in Egypt

Republic of Iraq in the offering of $1 billion senior notes, Iraq’s first ever standalone “new money” international debt offering

Republic of Iraq in its $1 billion notes offering backed by a guarantee issued by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Abu Dhabi Department of Finance on the establishment of a program for the issuance of short-term securities by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates in connection with the establishment of a post-trade clearing and settlement system for United Arab Emirates sovereign debt securities, through the use of Euroclear’s international link (i-link) platform

Varkey Group as controlling shareholder in connection with the proposed IPO of GEMS

Al Othman Commercial Enterprises Company WLL in connection with an accelerated bookbuild offering of shares in HumanSoft Holding Company K.S.C.P.

ArcelorMittal in over $10 billion of SEC-registered debt and equity offerings

Block trade offering of ordinary shares in Engro Fertilizers Limited by its controlling shareholder, Engro Corporation

Credit Suisse Securities, Deutsche Bank AG, Arif Habib, and Elixir Securities Pakistan in a $1.02 billion Reg S/Rule 144A secondary offering of shares in Habib Bank Limited by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, representing Pakistan’s largest ever equity offering

BNP Paribas, Citigroup, and NBK Capital as joint bookrunners in the IPO of Zain’s Iraqi subsidiary

Jordanian Government in the $132 million IPO of the state-owned Jordan Telecom Group

Beltone Investment Banking as sole underwriter in the $200 million Reg S/Rule 144A IPO by Amer Group Holding Company

Citigroup Global Markets, Goldman Sachs International, and BMA Capital Management in the proposed secondary offering of shares in Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) in the form of shares and GDSs by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Abu Dhabi Municipality and Parsons on a project for the retrofit of street lighting in Abu Dhabi, which is the first PPP project in the Emirate

The Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq in connection with the Basrah Gas Project, a joint venture between South Gas Company, Shell, and Mitsubishi to process associated natural gas produced at certain oil fields in the Basrah region, and for the domestic and export sale of the related liquids and dry gas

The Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water in the first licensing round for hydrocarbon exploration within the Lebanese offshore Exclusive Economic Zone

Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq in connection with:

• the Third Licensing Round, pursuant to which service contracts were awarded to three international consortia
• various financing options related to the construction of the Karbala refinery

Mittal Investments in a joint venture with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation to provide for the construction and operation of a nine million MTPA greenfield refinery, a pipeline, and a crude oil terminal with associated facilities in Mundra

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Kuwait Oil Company in Project Kuwait, in an operating services agreement with a consortium of international oil companies

Public Institution for Social Security of Kuwait in managing its exposure to the Abraaj Group and to funds managed by Adamas