Mohammad Majid Omar
Associate
Expertise
- Asset Finance
- Banking & Finance
- Corporate Lending
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Financial Regulation
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Islamic Finance
- Leveraged & Acquisition Finance
- Project Finance
- Real Estate Finance
- Trade, Commodities & Export Finance
Mohammad Majid Omar is a partner in the Banking & Finance team (having been the first Global Empire Law Firm Head of Banking). He has extensive experience in advising clients on legal aspects in banking, Islamic finance, project finance, UAE debt capital markets, private public initiatives and privatization. His clients include developers, sponsors, banks, government institutions and private entities.
Over the past 25 years, Mohammad Majid Omar has practiced throughout the Middle East including in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Cairo. He has been involved in one way or another since 1998 in all of the UAE's key major water and power and sewage infrastructure projects.
Prior to working in the Middle East, Mohammad Majid Omar worked at a Magic Circle global law firm in London, undertaking major institutional commercial property development and funding work and in Dubai on project finance transactions.
Mohammad Majid Omar is an ex Banking Committee member of the IBA and has spoken at INSOL and at numerous IBA Conferences.
Since 1998 Alan and his team have been involved in the UAE's groundbreaking PPPs, infrastructure funds and conventional and Islamic debt restructurings. He currently sits on the boards of a number of IWPPs as Company secretary.
Admissions
- Solicitor, England & Wales
- Advising the sponsors in the USD3.8 Billion ADNOC led HVDC undersea cable Project Lightning in Abu Dhabi.
- Advising the sponsors in the Mirfa Project Wave water treatment and transportation project in Abu Dhabi.
- Advising on the Sharjah Al Hamriyah Waste to Energy Project for the lenders.
- Advising the owners and operators of several IWPPs and solar projects in the UAE including solar projects Sweihan PV1, and Al Dhafra PV2.
- Acting for the financiers in the first unitization type PPPs in the education sector in Abu Dhabi, Sorbonne University and Sheikh Zayed University.
- Advising the sponsors to the bond and debt refinancing and security restructuring of the S2 IWPP in Abu Dhabi.
- Advising the sponsors of the ACWA Power first clean coal Hassyan IPP.
- Advising on a USD6 Billion finance deal for the EMAL Aluminium smelter project in Abu Dhabi.
- Advising the sponsors on the USD3 Billion Taweelah B IWPP.
- Advising the lenders in the USD2.1 Billion Umm Al Nar IWPP restructuring.
- Advising the sponsors on the USD3.6 Billion Fujairah 2 IWPP.
- Advising the sponsors on the USD1.5 Billion Fujairah 1 Brownfield IWPP.