Area of Practice :
Finance & Projects
Asset Finance and Leasing
Aircraft leasing
(NEN) Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif law firm has worked on transactions including aircraft lease portfolio securitization representing aircraft lessors and underwriters. Our clients rely on our expertise in local and cross-border aircraft leasing and financing market with a network of lawyers specialized in insolvency and litigation and tax.
Our firm also provides in-depth advice based on extensive experience of every aspect of aircraft leasing and financing. Our domains include commercial debt financings and tax based transactions, operating leases, securitization of lease receivables, lease and loan portfolio transfers and risk transfer programs, volatility in fuel prices as well as capital markets financing structures and airline insolvencies
(NEN) Al-Wagayan& Al-Saif law firm’s targets range from governmental institutions to lessors and operators. We anticipate our clients’ needs based on the industry’s requirements as firms often need to restructure financing arrangements given the worsening global economic situation. Our clients benefit from our expertise to get the maximum use of their investment in major assets.
Asset Finance
(NEN) Al-Wagayan& Al-Saif assist in structuring and executing financial transactions based on sound judgments about market needs and regulations. Our clients benefit from advice and guidance on a vast range of capital equipment and facility financings including energy distribution, oil storages, vessels, aircrafts and containers.
Our asset finance team of experts are known for adopting an innovative trend to best serve our clients and optimize their financial position through structuring and executing transactions for their benefit. Our clients take advantage of our knowledge and expertise to establish strategies tailored to guide them to fulfill their business ambitions in conformity more often in complex regulations in tax, M&A, banking, compliance audits, enforcement matters and insolvencies among other areas.
Alternative investment structures including private equity funds and real estate funds are also a field of Al-Wagayan and Al-Saif law firm’s expertise. Our team of asset management experts assists in advising on complex legal structures involving registered and unregistered funds including marketing materials and subscription documents.
Leasing
Efficiency and value that lawyers often bring to a transaction is directly affected by the cost of legal service. Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif law firm has a team of experienced attorneys that ensures that every aspect of any complex transaction is rightly handled based on knowledge, skill and precision.
Our clients rely on our team’s innovative structures to practically implement transactions that often face legal impediments. We provide solutions for lingering financial issues thus enabling our client to reduce extenuating asset and exit risks. We represent equity investors, lessees and lenders in domestic and cross-border transactions with extensive knowledge in financial, tax and legal issues as well as expertise in structuring, documenting and negotiating leasing transactions.
Our clients are advised and assisted to determine their status, the characterization of service contracts and the depreciation categorization of property and lease treatment.
Infrastructure and Project Finance
Finance structuring and documentation
(NEN) Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif is a pioneer in development and finance projects with an in-depth understanding of every aspect surrounding these projects. In this domain, we offer our clients with our expertise in structuring, documenting and negotiating a wide range of financing agreements as well as securing necessary approvals from regulators. Our team in the tax department also helps clients to structure projects to optimize tax benefits.
Construction
(NEN) Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif represents investors, owners, developers, financial institutions among others in mammoth and complex infrastructure transactions including joint ventures, public-private partnerships and acquisitions. Our clients benefit from our specialized team’s scientific advice based on our in-depth knowledge and our relationships in government and industry as well as the effective and practical way we handle transactions, constructions contracts, operation and maintenance agreements and other project agreements associated with infrastructure transactions.
With big projects disputes frequently arising, we are concerned with resolving disputes through legal channels or otherwise. Our team also has a deep-rooted experience in solving disputes through an alternative dispute resolution that basically focuses on financial resolution. Our clients rely on our lawyers’ advice on troubled projects to assess the problem areas and reach acceptable and feasible resolutions short of litigation.
Real estate, environmental and planning
Formulating easy and innovative solutions for sophisticated problems is one of our team’s distinctive characteristics. Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif has all necessary resources to practically handle domestic and cross-border transactions and to advise on several sectors raging from oil to telecoms. Our clients take advantage of our expertise to finance and develop their projects as we offer strategic advice, from complex co-financing to capital market-based project financing, to suit our clients’ needs.
Our firm has been involved in landmark domestic and cross-border real estate developments that require coordinated efforts among our real estate and corporate lawyers. Our team assists in selling, leasing and financing real estate projects as our lawyers represent developers of all sizes, lenders and borrowers in acquisition loans, land development loans, construction loans and letters of credit.
Strategic communications and public affairs
Enhanced by an in-depth knowledge of the communications sector, our expertise ranges from acquisitions and joint ventures to developing creative and strategic regulatory solutions. The Firm is also involved in telecommunications and broadcast practices which our expert lawyers can efficiently handle such deals with a deep perception of the commercial impact through which our clients can fulfill their strategic objectives.
Our legal team has the necessary and efficient resources to assist our clients and provide them with regulatory and strategic counseling, competition analysis, service arrangements, domestic and international strategies, litigation, enforcement proceedings and privatization among other aspects.
Leveraged Finance
Between normal borrowing to fund companies or businesses which are more riskier and expensive atypical to borrowing, leveraged finance is employed to fulfill our clients’ specific objectives. (NEN) Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif has an important combination of M&A, capital markets and domestic and global banking expertise that enables our team to complete transactions of a sophisticated nature.
Our experts advise clients on leveraged debt financing, including integrated bank and bond products, including senior, subordinated and mezzanine debt transactions and bridge financings, based on an in-depth knowledge of the market, regulations and budgetary requirements. We focus on recapitalization of companies and financings of leveraged buyouts. We also assist our clients to obtain asset-based and structured loans to expand their firms in the retailing, wholesaling, manufacturing and service industries.
Real Estate Finance
Our real estate finance group has combined their extensive experience from finance, tax and real estate practices. They advise Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif clients, including borrowers, real estate investment trusts and funds and financiers, on property investment and developing financing. Our clients benefit from the team’s expertise in sophisticated structured transactions and their restructuring.
Structured Finance - Asset Based Lending
Traditional lending is decreasing in comparison with the use of structured products that have become integrated into mainstream finance services. (NEN) Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif provides services for both borrowers and lenders in asset based and alternative lending transactions that are often part of complex deals.
Our team delivers a combined structured finance practice and advises on a wide range of transactions including asset–backed commercial paper, credit card receivables, receivables finance, project bonds and utility financings.
Our dedicated attorneys have an extensive experience in asset based lending and have full knowledge in the changing markets and their impact on future lending practices. They have represented our clients in a number of transactions with an efficient ability to structure a deal that can firmly stand up to restructuring or insolvency proceedings. Our asset based lending lawyers also have renowned skills in determining, assessing and resolving bankruptcy and tax related issues. We have completed asset based lending transactions in a number of industries including oil and Gas retail, telecommunications, advertising, media, insurance, transportation.
Structured Finance - Debt Capital Markets
(NEN) Al-Wagayan & Al-Saif is recognized by its clients as a pioneer in the capital markets with an extensive experience in structuring and executing the most sophisticated debt transactions.
Our dedicated team applies experience, perception and comprehensive knowledge of the regulatory structures in major jurisdictions to serve our clients in Islamic financing, high yield offerings, equity-linked products and liability management among other areas. We assist investment banks, sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns and corporates to raise and effectively manage debt.
Our team offers clients a flexible debt practice to meet their needs as we work on all forms of debt capital markets transactions, complex debt restructuring advice, recapitalization, amendments and tender and exchange offers. Our highly skilled lawyers have the know-how and the style to execute our clients’ most complex deals without delay.