Alex is an associate in the corporate team at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer.

Alex advises clients on complex cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and general corporate advisory matters.

Experience & capabilities

Selected matters

  • Zain Group on its transaction with Ooredoo to combine their mobile telecommunications tower portfolios to create the largest independent tower company in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
  • MB Group on the sale of an 80% strategic interest in its oilfield services subsidiary MBPS, to ADNOC Drilling
  • Sumitomo Corporation on its joint venture with Energy Development Oman, Oman’s national energy company, to establish Oman’s first integrated energy supply chain management company in Duqm
  • Sunstone Development Co on a joint venture with Emirates Global Aluminium to construct a new anode manufacturing facility that will have a capacity of 300 thousand tonnes of anodes per year
  • DKSH on its acquisition of NewBridge Pharmaceuticals, a leading healthcare commercialisation platform for speciality and rare disease medicines with operations across 14 markets in the MENA region
  • Marex on its agreement to acquire Aarna Capital Limited, a multi-asset brokerage firm, operating in the Abu Dhabi Global Market

Background

Prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Alex worked as an associate in an international law firm in London.