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Al Adalla
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Biography
Izabella is a Partner in the Corporate team. Having completed several equity capital markets transactions earlier in her career, she specialises in corporate work, particularly foreign investment regime, cross-border corporate/regulatory structure design and implementation (including entities’ formation and corporate services) as well as intra-group/ multiparty reorganisation/ restructuring for multinational conglomerates, Regional and local corporations and family business clients.
Izabella’s expertise extends to transfer of domicile from/ to the UAE, as well as transactional work, e.g. asset acquisition/ spin-off and M&A deals.
In addition, her areas of practice include wealth preservation/ inheritance advisory, e.g. Wills, advising on effective asset protection structuring and governance.
Prior to joining Al Tamimi, Izabella trained at Linklaters LLP and practiced at Clifford Chance LLP and White & Case LLP. She combines private practice and in-house experience, having acted as Head of Group Legal Department for a major UAE conglomerate, Al Rostamani Group.
Recent Experience
General Transactional:
- Fonterra Limited (New Zealand) in relation to a multi-jurisdictional restructuring (over USD 2 bn).
- AJ Express Ltd on sale of a minority stake in their GCC parcel logistics services to DHL eCommerce.
- Kanoo Group in the sale of certain travel business assets, across the GCC, to American Express Global Business Travel.
- Gulf Medical Projects Company on the sale of the Al Zahra Hospital Group in the Northern Emirates of the UAE for USD572m.
- First Reserve, Inc. in relation to its acquisition of Metallum (EUR670m).
- Anglo American in relation to the sale of its Tarmac business in the UAE, Qatar and Oman (transaction value worldwide: GBP885m).
Involving PE Funds:
- Gulf Data Hub on a strategic GCC partnership with Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. L.P. (USD 5 bn).
- TPG Rise Fund in relation to its USD1bn acquisition of Abraaj healthcare fund.
- VistaJet in relation to Rhone Capital transaction (post-money valuation of over USD2bn).
Equity Capital Markets:
- Kalyan Jewellers India Limited as lead Partner in relation to its listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India and their subsequent IPO, across the GCC.
- Aster DM Healthcare as lead Partner in relation to its listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Securities Exchange in India and their subsequent IPO, including complex cross-border restructuring across the GCC.
Language(s)
- English
- Polish
- French
Education
- Postgraduate Certificate of Proficiency, University of Auckland School of Law
- LLM (Hons), Warsaw University
- Diploma, University of Cambridge School of English and European Union Law
Admission
- Licensed Legal Consultant, Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department
- Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
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