Haris is the head of finance for our Global Transactions team in MENA.
Haris is ranked as a leading lawyer by all of the major directories. He has extensive banking and finance experience, and acts for sophisticated financial sponsors, alternative capital providers, corporate borrowers and financial institutions.
Haris advises on a wide spectrum of senior and subordinated financings, including acquisition financings, mezzanine financings and other leveraged finance products, as well as a broad range of general banking, Islamic financing, and restructuring and insolvency matters.
He is known for taking a commercial and constructive approach to settling negotiations and executing transactions.
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- Advising Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic on the financing of their joint acquisition of a 49 per cent. stake in Network International, a leading payment solutions provider in the Middle East and Africa.
- Advising a major consortium of international and regional financiers on the c.$1.25bn multi-source (Islamic and conventional) financing for GEMS Education, the leading educational platform across 14 countries, in which Blackstone, Fajr Capital and Mumtalakat are investors.
- Advising one of MENA's largest broadcasting networks on a complex restructuring of its debt opposite a wide syndicate of international and regional financiers, which included the injection of an additional subordinated facility.
- Advising Omantel on the financing of its public acquisition of a stake in Zain, a company listed on the Kuwait stock exchange.
- Advising Tunisie Telecom on the financing of its public acquisition of a majority stake in GO, a company listed on the Malta stock exchange.
- Advising TPG and The Abraaj Group on the shariah-compliant financing for their joint investment in Kudu, a leading restaurant group in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Advising Network International on a multi-source (Islamic and conventional) financing for its acquisition of Emerging Markets Payment Solutions from growth markets investor, Actis.
- Advising The Investment Dar on its innovative settlement-in-kind offer to existing creditors in distress circumstances.
- Advising The Abraaj Group in relation to the financing of its acquisition of a 25 per cent. stake in Hepsiburada, Turkey’s largest online retailer.
- Advising GC Credit Opportunities on its investment, by way of a convertible loan, in Carbon Holdings, Egypt’s largest downstream oil and gas holding company.
- Advising National Bank of Abu Dhabi (now part of First Abu Dhabi Bank) on its acquisition of a portfolio of Indian loan assets valued at almost $1bn from Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Education
- University College, University of Durham, UK (LLB Law (Hons))
- Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, UK (Legal Practice Course)
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