Omar Handoush

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.

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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