Overview
We advise on co-investments and club deals as direct investments. Our work covers deal-specific structures ranging from sponsor-led SPVs to negotiated joint ventures, with advice spanning structuring, diligence, documentation, governance, tax and regulatory analysis, and exit planning.
We represent sponsors, institutional investors, family offices and strategic capital partners on domestic and cross-border transactions across multiple sectors and asset classes.
What we do
Structuring: Designing direct investment structures that fit the opportunity, investor mandates, control expectations, funding mechanics and tax profile, including SPVs, direct hold structures and club-style joint ventures.
Negotiation: Negotiating economics, governance, reserved matters, information rights, pre-emption, anti-dilution, transfer restrictions, conflict protections and exit mechanics.
Documentation: Preparing and negotiating term sheets, co-investment agreements, shareholders’ or LLC agreements, SPV constitutional documents, subscription materials, side letters and closing sets.
Due diligence: Coordinating legal diligence and targeted issue reviews, including diligence reliance, investor-specific diligence asks, and diligence-to-documentation alignment.
Related Services
Private Capital Raising
We recognize that each capital-raising endeavor is distinct, driven by unique goals and objectives. Our experienced lawyers and PE experts never touch a transaction until we have, in optimal time, ascertained the client's immediate monetary and commercial objectives, and their post closing goals.
Clients do not approach our law firm for cookie cutter transactions, and we do not enjoy doing them. From our view, there are no cookie cutter or standard transactions, because there are never two clients or two transactions facing the same issues, risks, timelines, temperament and surrounding circumstances. We develop tailored strategies that align precisely with your vision.
Whether you are seeking seed funding, venture capital, or growth, we will design a model and method that fits your short-term needs and long term strategies.
Restructuring and Private M&A
We act and advise primary parties, as well as the shareholders and the entities themselves in respect of the acquisition of their assets, shareholding, mergers, divestments, dispositions and capitalisations, the restructuring mandates including establishing new corporate entities and advising on entity selection, operating and partnership agreements, and governance matters.
Partners in Charge
FAQs
Can I appeal the arbitration award?
An arbitral award is generally final and not “appealable” on the merits (i.e., you normally cannot appeal because you think the tribunal got the facts or law wrong). But an arbitration award can be "challenged" by making an "application to set aside" the award before the courts of the place/seat of arbitration.
How long does a typical arbitration take end-to-end?
Most rules and arbitration laws mandate that the tribunal must render its award within six months of the first hearing or its constitution, but in practice the concept of party autonomy prevails in the timeline of arbitral procedures. If both parties agree to extend the deadline of six months, it is extended until such time as the parties agree to do so, sometimes subject to permission of the scruity of arbitral institution (such as the ICC Court of Arbitration).
Can I get urgent/interim relief (injunctions, asset freezes) in arbitration?
Yes, you can obtain urgent interim relief, including injunctions and asset freezes, in arbitration. You can secure these through an Emergency Arbitrator (before the main tribunal is formed), the Arbitral Tribunal, or National Courts. However, because arbitral tribunals lack direct coercive enforcement powers against third parties (e.g., forcing a bank to freeze an account directly) we apply for interim and freezing orders in support of arbitration to the courts at the seat of arbitration or in jurisdictions where the opposing party's assets are located. We have successfully obtained worldwide freezing orders from local courts in the UAE, as well as foreign courts, such as the BVI, where we secured an order against both the defendant, the party to the arbitration, and a a third party escrow agent, from dealing with the assets referred to within the freezing order until the closure of the arbitration in Dubai.
What is arbitration and how is it different from going to court?
Arbitration is a process through which parties agree to resolve the dispute(s) between them by submitting to the final and binding decision of adjudicators, called arbitrators, appointed by them directly, or a mechanism of appointment agreed in their arbitration agreement. The scope of the disputes subject to arbitration are limited and defined in scope, by reference to a certain situation, contract, deal or transaction.
What if the defendant does not participate in the arbitration proceedings?
The arbitration continues 'in default'. The claimant will still have to prove the merits of their case, and the arbitral tribunal will be more inquisitive and demanding on the claimant. But the arbitration will continue in absentia.
