Biography

Tareq is a Legal Director in the Corporate Commercial Practice Group. He has extensive corporate/commercial and project finance experience in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Tareq has significant experience advising on renewable and conventional power projects on both the sponsor and lender sides, having acted for leading international developers and international financial institutions on a number of landmark power projects.

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Recent Experience

  • Advising a global investment fund in connection with an acquisition of a regional chocolate manufacturing and distribution company.
  • Advising Elm Company in connection with its digital transformation services arrangements with KBW Investments in favor of the Jordanian Royal Medical Services.
  • Advising a major bank in connection with the financing of a project for an LPG storage facility in Aqaba, Jordan.
  • Advising a major technology company in connection with the acquisition of an artificial intelligence and cloud computing services provider.
  • Advising the buyer in connection with the acquisition of multiple renewable and conventional energy projects in Jordan.
  • Advising Stagwell Global LLC in connection with the acquisition of the KSA subsidiaries of Consulum (Cayman) Limited.
  • Advising the buyer in connection with the acquisition of a major luxury hotel in Jordan.
  • Advising the buyer and seller in connection with the acquisition and share swap of a leading telemedicine provider in KSA.
  • Advising a leading trading broker in connection its pre-IPO restructuring.
  • Advising Azorra Aviation on the leasing and financing of multiple aircraft into Jordan
  • Advising a consortium of bidders in respect of the arrangement for the construction of a power transmission network and the construction of power generation facilities in connection with the establishment of a major public utility project.
  • Acting for leading project sponsor on the drafting and negotiation of project documentation for Jordan’s first mono-landfill project.
  • Advising leading multinational companies on several notable acquisition transactions including the acquisition of a leading renewable energy provider; a marine services concessionaire; and a big content and AI services provider.
  • Acting for the sponsors in connection with a 50 MW project financed by Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Mizuho Bank, Ltd. and Standard Chartered Bank, Tokyo Branch.
  • Acting for the sponsors in relation to the establishment of an 86.1 MW wind power project financed by DEG, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and PROPARCO in the Al- Rajef area of Jordan.
  • Acting for Bank of China, The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, The China Development Bank and China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) in connection with the financing of an oil shale fired power plant to located in Attarat Um Ghudran deposit in central Jordan, the world’s first limited recourse financing of an oil shale project and Jordan’s largest public utility power generation project.
  • Advising a major multinational power transmission equipment manufacturer in connection with its asset acquisition of a market competitor in Saudi Arabia.

Language(s)

  • Arabic
  • English

Education

  • The University of Nottingham – Nottingham, UK, Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LLB)

Admission

  • Jordanian Bar Association
  • Solicitor of England and Wales