Lama Abou Ali is a Counsel at Meysan and a member of the firm’s Capital Markets and Projects practice. Lama’s expertise focuses on Capital Markets, Project Development and Financing and M&A. She advised major local and international clients, including private and public institutions, and international organizations on infrastructure and energy projects, project finance and project acquisition and M&A.
Before joining Meysan, Lama worked as a consultant for a renowned English law firm land was the group legal counsel of a well-known bank in Lebanon for more than eight years, working on project finance and acquisition finance, structuring and leading cross-border syndicated loans transactions based on the Loan Market Association’s standards.
- Certificate in “Mergers and Acquisitions: Structuring and Leading Deals”.
- Executive Education program, Harvard Law School, United States.
- Masters in Domestic and International Business Law, Lebanese University (French section).
- Bachelors in law, Lebanese University (French section).
- Egypt Bar Association.
- Advised the Kuwait Ministry of Communications on the fixed telecommunications network development PPP project for the design, financing, building, operating, maintaining, and transferring Kuwait's nationwide, high-speed fiber broadband network.
- Advised the Kuwait Ministry of Finance on the pre-development stage of Failakah Resort and Entertainment City, including the concept, feasibility, and legal framework.
- Designed and proposed legal structures for renewable energy and waste management projects.
- Advised consortiums of municipalities on the structuring of solid waste management projects.
- Created Inception Memorandums identifying and anticipating legal risks and needs.
- Drafted and negotiated a wide variety of agreements related to waste management and wind energy projects (PPAs, EPC, O&M, technical services, JV and grant agreements).
- Advised on licensing and permitting requirements and assisted in securing permits for projects.
- Advised on environmental legal and regulatory requirements.
- Advised on the first IPP project financing in Lebanon (180 MW wind farms in the north of Lebanon).
- Advised AAG, a major family-owned automotive retailer and the largest player in the premium automotive retail industry in Kuwait, on the $3 billion private offering and premier market listing of their automotive operation, representing the region’s first-ever family business offering.
