Finance Monthly M&A Awards Winners Edition

FINANCE MONTHLY M&A AWARDS 2020 101 sovereign governments and their agencies, domestic corporations and financial institutions, as well as high net worth individuals. Meysan Partners adopts a boutique approach to its practice, limiting the number and type of matters it undertakes, in order to ensure the highest quality offering for our clients. The firm strives to maintain a ratio of associates to partners significantly below that of other firms in the region, and generally focuses on matters that require the focus and experience of our partners, particularly in relation to cross-border regional transactions and high-stakes commercial litigation. OUR VISION AND VALUES Our Vision is to be the trusted advisor to our clients, handling their most complex matters with excellence. We embrace a set of values by which we conduct our business and ourselves. TO OUR CLIENTS • We are responsive, consistent, reliable and quality driven • We have in-depth knowledge and expertise to ensure the delivery of excellence • We act as trusted counselors, leveraging our international expertise, local knowledge and regional network for the benefit of our clients TO OUR PEOPLE • We recruit only the best team members who are passionate about excellence • We never compromise on our ethical standards, integrity or reputation • We are loyal to our team and take care of our people TO OUR COMMUNITY • We harness our skills to contribute to society and give back to our community PRACTICES CORPORATE Meysan’s Corporate Group provides integrated advice and service across a spectrum of practice areas. The Group’s diverse client base includes international and regional industrial and commercial companies, financial service institutions, investment funds, governments and individuals. ABOUT BADER EL JEAAN Mr. El-Jeaan has extensive experience advising corporate, investment banking and sovereign clients in complicated cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international joint ventures and strategic alliances, and project development and finance transactions, as well as various capital markets transactions involving registered and unregistered securities offerings, exchange offerings, consent solicitations, and asset securitizations. Mr. El-Jeaan is amember of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Investment Authority (Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund), Boursa Kuwait (Kuwait’s Stock Exchange), and National Real Estate Company. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Gulf Bank KSC (Kuwait’s second largest conventional bank), Alamar Foods (the regional franchisee of Domino’s Pizza and Wendy’s) and General Lighting Company. He was also the founder and inaugural President of the Harvard Club of Kuwait. FIRM PROFILE Meysan Partners, a Middle Eastern law firm, sets itself apart by offering high quality, innovative legal advice delivered by a team of highly-experienced Arabic and English speaking lawyers. This is underpinned by over 85 years of combined legal experience in the Middle East shared by its partners who, in recent years, have advised clients across a range of industry sectors on some of themost noteworthy and complex transactions and litigation. The firm’s client list includes regional blue-chip companies and family groups, multinational corporations, international financial institutions,