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Qatar
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U.A.E.
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Victoria Mesquita, Ganna Vlasenko and Aran Au Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP is a leading international law firm providing a broad range of legal services to clients around the world. The firm operates through its 19 offices in the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Central and East Asia. The firm’s international orientation has been a hall - mark of its practice for nearly two centuries. Its attorneys are internationalists with a deep un -
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derstanding of the cultural as well as business sensitivities associated with conducting busi - ness across borders. It represents clients across industry sectors, including multinational corpo - rations and financial institutions, governments and state-owned companies, money managers, sovereign wealth funds, family-owned busi - nesses, individuals and entrepreneurs.
Authors
Victoria Mesquita is a partner in the Dubai office of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. She is a New York qualified lawyer by training and has spent 15 years in the Middle East. She
Ganna Vlasenko is a counsel at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP and specialises in Islamic and conventional debt capital markets, structured finance and financial regulatory
is a highly experienced conventional and Islamic finance lawyer, with a flair for complex investment solutions. She is notable for her work in the structured financial product area and is preeminent in the developing area of Sharia-compliant structured notes, high-yield bonds and securitisations. She advises arrangers and issuers on structured notes, securitisations, private placements, bond and sukuk issuances and restructurings, private credit, direct lending, venture debt and mezzanine financing. Aran Au is an associate in the Dubai office of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. He works closely with partner Victoria Mesquita and counsel Ganna Vlasenko on the full range of conventional and Islamic debt products.
matters across a range of jurisdictions, including the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. Her debt capital markets experience has involved advising on the full range of debt capital market products, including corporate and sovereign bonds and sukuk issuances, medium-term note and sukuk programmes, securitisations, structured products, liability management and regulatory capital issuances. She acts for both arrangers and issuers and has advised on issuances for sovereigns, government-related and supranational entities, corporates and financial institutions.
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