Ardeshir Patel

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

•Mergers and Acquisitions

•Capital Markets

•Corporate Finance and Structuring

•Anti-trust and Competition Law

Career

Ardeshir heads AMJ’s capital markets and corporate finance team and has advised on IPOs, FPOs, and PIPE transactions as well as local and cross-border M&A transactions.

Ardeshir also advises clients in relation to anti-trust and competition law, across of a variety of relevant markets including in relation to M&A transactions, anti-competitive agreements and anti-competitive actions (e.g., abuse of a dominant position).

Ardeshir joined AMJ in 2004 and became a Partner in 2012.

Professional Memberships

•Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales (2002)

•Solicitor of the High Court of Bombay (1999)

•Advocate Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa (1997)

Publications

•LexisNexis Practice Note Updates 2021

•Corporate Governance 2020: Chambers Global Practice Guides 2020

•Lexis Nexis –Merger Control

•IFLR: Merger Control Guide 2017

•Lexis Nexis M&A Law Guide 2017

Personal

Reading, travel

Experience

20 plus years of experience

Work Highlights

Ardeshir has advised:

•Ubhar Capital SAOC on its 100% acquisition of Gulf Baader Capital Markets SAOC;

•Various companies on various aspects of Omani law as would become applicable to

reorganisation/restructuring of two Government owned companies engaged in the oil

and gas and petrochemical sector, in particular the regulatory framework applicable to

the reorganization;

•Renaissance Services SAOG on the Oman aspects of the divestment of its OSV

business to DP World;

•ABB on the Oman aspects of the transfer of its T&D business;

•Musandam Power on its initial public offering of shares;

•Mubbadrah Investment LLC in connection with a DeSpac transaction involving the

divestment of its group company Gulf Energy SAOC against allotment of shares in a

SPAC listed on a bourse in the U.S.;

•Dhofar Generating Company in connection with its initial public offering of shares and

listing on the Muscat Securities Market.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Oman

Industry Sector Expertise

Banking, Securities Markets, Financial Services.

Languages Spoken

English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi and Urdu.

Education