Global
Career
Rafi Sajian is a corporate specialist and has extensive experience acting on corporate and financial transactions and provides substantial counsel to international clients on domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate compliance and governance, corporate establishment, restructuring & reorganization, joint ventures and securities matters. Rafi also advises on all aspects of Qatar laws with specific knowledge in the Trade, Companies, Real Estate, Civil, Penal and Labor Laws. Rafi has also advised major educational institutions in Qatar on contentious employment matters, and provided counsel on restructuring, licensing and compliance matters.
Professional Memberships
Beirut Bar
Work Highlights
• Advised a leading regional tower company on a QAR 2.2 billion asset combination in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Advised a major international telecommunications company on its acquisition of a regional competitor, including merger risks, regulatory, and licensing requirements.
• Advised a global foreign exchange and financial services company on the impact of its global restructuring on its local entity and related regulatory issues.
• Advised international sports associations on investment transactions with Qatari entities.
• Advised a major state-owned real estate company on one of the largest acquisitions in Qatar, valued at over QAR 20 billion.
• Advised a leading investment company in Qatar on the acquisition of prime properties in a flagship real estate development.
• Advised a multinational industrial company on the acquisition of industrial land and the establishment of a 100% foreign-owned manufacturing facility in Qatar.
• Assisted a FTSE 100 listed company with the global sale of its energy gas turbine business.
• Advised a leading global design and consultancy firm on its corporate restructuring and rebranding of its business in the GCC region.
• Advised a major construction company in Qatar on the reorganization of its corporate and management structure.
• Advised a multinational company in Qatar on the acquisition of a major real estate property in the State of Qatar.
• Advised a Qatari publicly listed company on the listing of Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) on the London Stock Exchange.
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Qatar
Experience
• The transaction involves the re-domiciliation of three Nakilat charterer entities from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the Qatar Financial Centre. These entities are charterers under existing sale and leaseback arrangements relating to three newbuilding vessels, with Hong Kong-incorporated owners and a pledgor, Nakilat VLGC Inc. The lender/financier in the transaction is CMB Financial Leasing Co. Ltd.
As part of the re-domiciliation, while the existing English law-governed Deeds of Pledge over Shares remain in place, new QFC law-governed share pledge agreements are to be executed by the pledgor (Nakilat) in favour of each owner. The three charterer entities obtained QFC Certificates of Continuation as of 22 December 2025.
• The transaction involves the proposed acquisition by Mesaimeer City Real Estate Company W.L.L. of six (6) utility plots located within Barwa Phase 2 in Mesaimeer City, Qatar. The targeted plots host critical infrastructure assets essential to the operation and continuity of the developments. The plots have a combined area of 31,933 sqm.
• The transaction involves the sale and purchase of 51% of the issued share capital of Qatar Scientific Company W.L.L. by the client. The consideration is structured as a provisional purchase price, adjusted post-Completion by reference to completion cash, working capital, balance sheet debt, related party indebtedness, receivables, and inventory adjustments to arrive to a final purchase price.
Education
Lebanese University – Faculty of Law
