Our banking and finance practice has been at the forefront of the industry for the past 30 years and is consistently top-ranked for its track record of performance in landmark deals and developments. The team includes Oman’s leading banking specialists whose expertise spans a broad spectrum of transactions and advisory. They are recognised for their in-depth industry knowledge as well as technical prowess.

The team assists lenders, government authorities, issuers, asset managers, funds, private equity participants as well as project sponsors in diverse sectors successfully to navigate all aspects of the bank financing process. They advise on cross-border and domestic financings, syndicated and bilateral lending and credit facility agreements, project finance, corporate finance, Islamic finance, ship and aircraft finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, asset and real estate finance, security arrangements, recapitalisations and corporate restructurings.

As our practice is balanced between lender and borrower mandates, clients receive commercial, insightful advice from lawyers with a complete understanding of both sides of a transaction. They also combine expert knowledge of Oman’s regulatory and business environment with multi-jurisdictional experience gained in the United Kingdom, Russia, British Virgin Islands, and Pakistan. This enables them to provide clients with high quality, Oman-specific advice and guidance to international standards.

Our finance lawyers work alongside our regulatory, corporate, capital markets, restructuring and other specialists to provide integrated legal advice for all our clients’ financing needs. In hybrid transactions with a sharia-compliant component, the team is able to leverage the expertise of the firm’s award-winning Islamic finance practice.