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Legal Visions, Healing Touch: Shaping the Future of Healthcare
The first Law Update of 2024 is here, and our first focus of the year spotlights Healthcare and Lifesciences, a sector that is undergoing significant growth and development across the MENA region.
Our focus provides an insight into some of the most important regulatory updates across the region, such as the UAE’s groundbreaking law on the use of human genome, Kuwait’s resolution on nuclear and radioactive materials, the new regulations for healthcare services in Qatar, Egypt’s healthcare regulatory framework, and the impact of the Saudi Civil Transactions Law on the healthcare and life sciences sector … and there is so much more!
Beyond the healthcare pages our lawyers share with you multi-sector insights where you will discover articles on Dubai’s DIFC regulatory framework for startups, Bahrain’s commercial agencies law, and we also shed light on Kuwaiti civil code and the advantages of setting up a joint stock company in Saudi Arabia.
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A complete spectrum of legal services across jurisdictions in the Middle East & North Africa.
Xavier Solanes
Senior Associate
Biography
Xavier is a lawyer with over 9 years of international tax experience. Prior to joining Al Tamimi in 2017, he worked for more than four years at leading Spanish firm Cuatrecasas.
Xavier specialises on cross border M&A tax, tax litigation, ongoing tax advisory and transfer pricing, in respect of all taxes. His clients include family offices, financial institutions, as well as regional and large multinationals, operating across all industry sectors.
He has experience in Spanish, European and international taxation, currently with a focus on Middle East taxes – in particular, in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Recent Experience
- Acting as tax counsel to Blackrock’s USD 15.5 billion acquisition of a 49% stake in Saudi Aramco Gas Pipelines.
- Advising a major hospitality group on the tax implications of their global operations in more than 15 countries, coordinating overseas tax counsel.
- Representing clients before the Tax Committees in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait.
- Implementing VAT for clients across the Middle East.
- Assisting with VAT and withholding tax refund requests, audits and disputes.
- Carrying on tax due diligences across the Middle East. Advising on M&A tax implications, support with drafting and negotiating legal agreements.
- Drafting, negotiating and obtaining tax rulings from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain tax authorities.
- Ongoing tax advisory in respect of Middle East taxes.
- Advising on UAE and Bahrain economic substance matters, successfully representing clients in UAE economic substance audits.
Language(s)
- Catalan
- English
- French
- Spanish
Education
2017 – Postgraduate diploma in International Taxation, ESADE
2014 – LLM, Tax advisory and tax planning, UIC Barcelona
2012 – LLB, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Admission
2013 – Attorney-at-law Barcelona Bar, Spain
Practice(s)
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