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Meysan’s Kuwait corporate practice is renowned for handling a diverse range of high-value and complex legal matters. The team specialises in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance, restructurings, and cross-border investments. It also provides expert counsel on regulatory compliance and innovative “market-first” transactions. Clients benefit from Meysan’s deep understanding of Kuwaiti law and its ability to align legal strategies with commercial objectives, ensuring tailored solutions for every engagement. The firm represents a broad spectrum of clients, including leading blue-chip companies and multinational corporations.

Recent work highlights include advising on transformative cross-border M&A transactions, facilitating inbound investments into Kuwait, and successfully navigating complex regulatory frameworks for multinational corporations. The firm’s specialisations extend beyond corporate law to include finance, commercial law, and litigation.

Meysan’s lawyers are particularly skilled in managing cross-border transactions, ensuring compliance with multi-jurisdictional regulations, and mitigating risks in high-value deals. With a reputation for innovation and excellence, the Kuwait corporate practice consistently delivers outstanding results for its clients, maintaining its position as a leader in the region.

Chambers Review

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Corporate & Finance - Kuwait

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What the Team is Known For

Meysan Partners is a prominent Kuwaiti law firm with deep experience across an array of transactional and regulatory matters. Its seasoned team of lawyers advises on high-value capital markets, M&A and private equity work, in addition to banking and finance mandates and all aspects of operational and contractual matters. The firm is also noted for its considerable disputes experience, regularly being called upon to handle big-ticket litigation and arbitration cases. Recent work handled by the dispute resolution team includes contentious regulatory matters as well as construction arbitration.

Work Highlights

  • Meysan advised Beyout Investment Group Holding on its offering of 90 million ordinary shares and its listing on the premier market of the Kuwait Stock Exchange.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Bader El-Jeaan
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Bader El-Jeaan
Head of Corporate & Finance
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Bader El-Jeaan is the co-founder, senior partner and head of corporate at Meysan. He is a highly respected name in the Kuwaiti legal environment and is known for taking on very high-value M&A and capital markets transactions.

Bader El-Jeaan provides a wealth of information that helps us prevent problems.

Bader El-Jeaan is enormously practical, astute and commercial.

Tarek Yehya
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Tarek Yehya
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Tarek Yehya leads the firm's capital markets group. In his client work, he is able to draw upon wide-ranging experience that touches upon all aspects of equity and debt issuances.

Tarek Yehya is an amazing lawyer in every aspect. He is articulate, provides clear thoughts and focuses on results. We feel very safe when Tarek is around.

Tarek Yehya ensures he understands the matter deeply and adopts a proactive approach. His legal insights and strong commercial awareness enabled us to close the transactions successfully.

Waleed Al Tattan
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Waleed Al Tattan
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Waleed Al Tattan heads the dispute resolution team and is very prominent in this field within Kuwait. He has experience across a range of contentious matters, including agency and taxation disputes.

Abdulwahab Abullatif Sadeq
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Abdulwahab Abullatif Sadeq
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Band 3

Abdulwahab Abullatif Sadeq is a reputable lawyer with extensive experience in capital markets. He is able to advise clients on equity matters such as IPOs and securitisation, and offers further strengths in debt issuances. Additionally, he frequently assists entities in the telecoms and technology sectors with cross-border M&A.

Abdulwahab Abullatif Sadeq gives sound knowledge and a great level of client service. He is a trusted adviser.

Abdulwahab Abullatif Sadeq can simplify things for the business without any compromise on quality. He finds the perfect balance with business requirements.

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Kuwait

Corporate & Finance

Bader El-Jeaan
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Bader El-Jeaan
Head of Corporate & Finance
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Band 1
Tarek Yehya
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Tarek Yehya
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Band 1
Abdulwahab Abullatif Sadeq
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Abdulwahab Abullatif Sadeq
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Band 3
Dispute Resolution

Waleed Al Tattan
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Waleed Al Tattan
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Band 1

Members

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Bader El-Jeaan

Bader El-Jeaan

Head of Department

Michel Ghanem

Waleed Al Tattan

Waleed Al Tattan

Head of Department

Clients

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Agility

Ahli United Bank

Dunkin Donuts – Kuwait

Gulf Insurance Company

Jazeera Airways

Johnson Controls (Kuwait)

Kuwait English School Company

Kuwait Projects Company Holdings Company (KIPCO)

Kuwait Telecommunications Company (STC)

Warba Bank

Industries

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Automotive

Banking and Finance

Consumer Retail Products

E-Commerce and Marketplace

Fintech

Food and Beverages

Government

Healthcare and Life Sciences

Insurance

Manufacturing

Oil and Gas

Projects and Infrastructure

Renewable Energy

Telecommunications

Transportation and Logistics

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