Layla Alalawi

Biography

Layla works closely with our international, regional and domestic clients, providing assistance to commercial entities in the full range of corporate structuring and restructuring related mandates including advising on FDI options, registering corporate entities, corporate restructuring, share transfers and re-organisations, asset transfers, nominee arrangements, sale purchase agreements, share mortgage agreements, personal guarantees, increases and decreases in capital, drafting and amending constitutional documents, corporate secretarial matters, advising on trust structures in Bahrain and conducting due diligence.

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Recent Experience

• Advising one of the world’s largest care and assistance providers, in connection with its acquisition of the assets of a leading insurance service provider in the GCC Region.
• Advising and assisting with the incorporation and entry of a leading smart and cloud kitchen service, to the Bahrain market, and subsequently the restructuring the same.
• Advising a large family-owned conglomerate with its complex, internal restructuring plan in the GCC Region (Bahrain, KSA, UAE and Oman).
• Advising a major call center company on its acquisition of a leading call center service provider in the Gulf region.
• Assisting a global industrial company on the acquisition of the shares owned by the local partner pf their subsidiary in Bahrain and providing ongoing legal support to the subsidiary in Bahrain.
• Advising a multinational pharmaceutical company on commercial agency and distribution laws in Bahrain.
• Advising an infrastructure and urban development corporation on local laws relating to public-private partnerships (PPP) and the construction and operation of railways under Bahrain laws.
• Advising a major multinational logistics company on ownership restrictions and the required licenses and approvals to set up an entity in Bahrain.
• Providing ongoing support to a multinational fashion brand subsidiary in Bahrain, specifically on corporate governance.
• Advising local and international startups on the incorporation of their Bahrain subsidiaries and branches.
• Advising and assisting on the sale and purchase of a Bahraini flagged ship to be flagged in Greece.