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Sadaf Buchanan

Sadaf Buchanan

Global 2026

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Sadaf Buchanan heads up the tier 1 ranked Banking and Finance team in Muscat and has more than 20 years' experience in restructuring and finance work. She also heads up the Islamic Finance initiative for the Oman office.

Sadaf works alongside both lenders and borrowers in advising on security issues and options, enforcement (both solvent and insolvent routes) and commercial lending and borrowing and has also advised on a number of the landmark debt capital markets transactions from the Sultanate.

She has broad experience in acting on both local and international deals and advising banks, businesses, shareholders and other stakeholders in relation to business restructurings and financing issues involving a variety of sectors from hotel and leisure to oil and gas as well as many international companies and financial institutions considering doing business in Oman.

Sadaf is ranked as "Highly Regarded" by IFLR1000 2024/5 for Banking and Capital Markets: Debt.

Languages Spoken

English

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Corporate & Finance - Oman

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Sadaf Buchanan leads Dentons' Omani banking and finance team and is particularly prominent in the field of debt capital markets. Her wide-ranging experience covers project bonds and Tier 1 securities issuances, in addition to the negotiation of billion-dollar term loan facilities.

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