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When Healthcare & Life Sciences Imitate Art
Our first edition of 2022 focuses on Healthcare and Life Sciences. It is a sector that will once again have the spotlight on it this year as we continue to tackle COVID-19 and its subsequent variants. While the pandemic continues to challenge the sector, governments across the region forge ahead with their plans to expand and upgrade healthcare systems and develop robust world-class healthcare infrastructure.
For the region, healthcare is a vital pillar in diversifying its economies, both locally and as medical tourism hubs. To underpin this, healthcare authorities across the region continue to implement frameworks and regulations that provide structure and accountability.
In this edition, you have unique access to great insights and expert commentary on a number of pertinent healthcare regulatory developments. You will find a topical mix of articles; for example, our lawyers discuss vaccines and returning to work during the pandemic. They take you through several other areas, including stem cell research in Bahrain, clinical research laws in Egypt, and Saudi medical device and pharmaceutical laws.
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Omar Handoush
Partner, Head of Banking & Finance - Kuwait
Biography
Omar is a Partner and Head of Banking & Finance in Al Tamimi & Company’s Kuwait office. Prior to joining Al Tamimi & Company, Omar was an Associate at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, where he focused his practice on advising private equity firms and privately held companies on a broad range of corporate transactions, including, without limitation, corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, early stage venture financing, fund formation and corporate governance.
Omar’s experience includes representing both lenders and companies in a variety of conventional and Islamic finance transactions. Omar has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and advising clients on a wide variety of finance and acquisition transactions. His clients include regional, European and US banks, government entities and corporate borrowers. Most recently, Omar has served as counsel on both the financier and borrower side of a number of Shari’a complaint transactions.
Recent Experience
- Advised Kuwait National Petroleum Company on world’s largest ECA financing for corporate purposes.
- Advised Kuwait National Petroleum Company on its multi-billion dollar financing of the Clean Fuel Project.
- Advised Warba Bank in its US$250 million sukuk issuance.
- Advised the Commercial Bank of Kuwait in an 83.3 million Kuwait dinar cash and non-cash financing of the New Maternity Hospital project in Kuwait.
- Advised Standard Chartered Bank and a syndicate of lenders to Alabbar Enterprises in connection with the financing of the US$2.4 billion acquisition of Kuwait Food Company (Americana).
- Advised Boubyan Bank in its US$250 million sukuk issuance (recognized as “Debt & Equity Deal of the Year 2016” by the International Financial Law Review).
- Advised Warba Bank in an Islamic compliant transaction in connection with its acquisition of USD$ 66 million auto finance portfolio (recognized as “Domestic Deal of the Year 2015” by the International Financial Law Review and “Structured Finance Deal of the Year 2015” by the Islamic Finance News).
- Advised Kuwait International Bank in a US $320 million syndicated murabaha financing.
- Advised National Bank of Kuwait and Kuwait Finance House with respect to the KD 61.25 Million syndicated loan facility provided to Limak İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş for the construction of service roads and the car park in connection with the new terminal at Kuwait International Airport
- Advised Kuwait Finance House in respect of a USD 200 Million Murabaha facility to a major Kuwaiti conventional bank
- Advised IHS Kuwait Limited For the Construction, Erection and Maintenance of Wired and Wireless Telecommunications and Radar Towers and Stations W.L.L. (“IHS”), as borrower, in a syndicated acquisition financing of up to $85 Million in connection with IHS’s acquisition of certain tower businesses and assets in Kuwait
Language(s)
- Arabic
- English
Education
2009 – Juris Doctor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
1999 – BS in Business Administration, University of California Berkeley
Admission
2014 – American Bar Association
2009 – State California Bar
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