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Profile:
Our full service Oman office is an integral part of our presence in the gulf region and provides a comprehensive range of legal services to local, regional and international clients.
We have a talented team of internationally trained and experienced lawyers with local know- how, equipped to undertake the largest and most complex legal matters in their fields of practice. These practice areas include:
* infrastructure, development and project finance
* privatization
* real estate and construction
* commercial, corporate and finance, including Islamic finance
* legislative and regulatory issues
* intellectual property and technology
* employment
Our services
Our multi-lingual lawyers provide unrivalled, pragmatic, responsive and commercially minded support to the strategic and operational business needs of local Omani and Middle East organisations.
Our clients cover the full industry spectrum in Oman including ports, shipping, LNG, tourism, and utilities such as electricity, water, environmental waste and telecommunications.
Both private and public sector clients revere the excellence of our sound, strategic support and the Oman office managing partner, Bruce Mullins, recently received accolades in the Lawyer Hot 100 2010 list for his exceptional professionalism and legal expertise.
Through the depth of resources in Oman, the wider Middle East practice and our global practice, our clients can rely on us to support them in achieving their key business objectives, both regionally and internationally.
Examples of our experience
* Advised the Oman Investment Fund on its £445m joint venture with Hammerson UK Properties Plc to acquire Bishops Square in Spitalfields, London. The deal was the largest property transaction in London in 2009.
* Advised on the operation of the Sohar Industrial Port covering 2,100 hectares, including port rules and regulations, land plot agreements, concessions, and licenses for petrochemicals, metals, and logistics clusters (22 industries to date, totalling over US$12 billion investment, and increasing).
* Advising on the privatisation/commercialisation/development of portable water and wastewater projects, including Al Masarrat Water Scheme (US$120m), Ash’Sharqiya Water Scheme (US$150m), Muscat/Oman Wastewater System (US$300m) and Salalah Wastewater System (US$31m).
* Advising on the privatisation/development of electricity including Salalah Power System (US$260m), Sharqiya Power System (US$200m) and Manah Power II System (US$90m).
* Advising on the development of tourism concessions, including integrated tourist complexes (ITC) such as The Wave Muscat development (US$700m) and Blue City (US$1bn), Tourist operations (Al Hoota Cave), counselled on the Review of Foreign Ownership of Integrated Tourist Complex Law, and ITC development property rules and regulations.
* Advising on the development of the Muscat Hills Golf and Country Club (US$500m), including shareholders and investor agreements (1.2 million m2 development with Oman’s first 18-hole championship golf course, hotel, commercial and residential units). |
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