Suhail Mirza

Biography

Suhail is an experienced corporate, projects and infrastructure lawyer with extensive expertise in cross-border M&A across the Middle East, with a particular focus on the technology sector (including fintech and digital payments) and infrastructure projects. He advises extensively on shareholders’ agreements, fund-raising and start-up investments, corporate governance, regulatory matters and foreign direct investment, regularly assisting multinational companies in expanding their footprint across the region.

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Recent Experience

• Acting for a Tata group company on its AED 1.04 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in Damas, the region’s leading luxury jewellery brand.
• Acting for a regional environmental services company on the divestment of a strategic stake to a foreign infrastructure fund.
• Acting for an Oman sovereign wealth fund on its proposed investment in a UAE food and beverage franchise.
• Acting for Etihad Water & Electricity Company PJSC on its AED 200m acquisition of a strategic stake in a Project and O&M Company in relation to a 150 MIGD IPW Project.
• Acting for a start up AI company on successive funding rounds and acquisition of a business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Acting for institutional investors on the acquisition of the entire issued share capital in an ADGM regulated brokerage firm.
• Acting for institutional investors on the acquisition of a minority stake in a DIFC regulated brokerage firm.
• Acting for Etihad Water & Electricity Company PJSC on its investment in a USD 950m utilities project in the UAE.
• Acting for a Canadian listed company on its USD 40m take private and re-domicile to the UAE.
• Acting for a South Africa listed company on its acquisition of a data handling business in the UAE.
• Acting for the Federal Electricity and Water Authority (as co-developer) on the entry into a joint venture/framework agreement with Mubadala Development Company for the procurement of six independent water and power projects in the UAE.
• Acting for Etihad Water & Electricity Company PJSC on its procurement of the 45 MIGD IWP in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
• Acting for Etihad Water & Electricity Company PJSC on its procurement of a 150 MIGD IWP in the Emirate of Umm Al Quwain.
• Acting for Etihad Water and Electricity Company PJSC in relation to the concession arrangements for the Tanqia waste water treatment plant in Fujairah.
• Acting for Metito Utilities in relation to its bid for the New Cairo Waste Water Treatment project.
• Acting for Etihad Water & Electricity Company PJSC on its stake build and acquisition of shares in a UAE concession company in the IWP sector.
• Acting for the Federal Electricity and Water Authority (as co-developer) on the entry into a joint venture/framework agreement with Mubadala Development Company for the procurement of six independent water and power projects in the UAE.
• Advising Carnival Corporation on its participation as port operator in a multi-billion US dollar development for a new cruise liner terminal in the UAE.
• Advising Saudi Arabia’s Zahid Group on its acquisition of a 50% stake in Greencells Group (one of Europe’s largest solar plant developers and operators).
• Acting for the UAE Government’s Roads & Transport Authority in relation to the procurement of a transport infrastructure project and urban commercial building on a PPP basis.