Amjad is a co-founder and former managing partner of Afridi & Angell. He has represented the firm’s international and local clients including banks and leading multinationals as well as private equity firms, in corporate, banking and financial transactions in Dubai and abroad. He also represented clients in relation to investments in the GCC, US, UK, and India.
Amjad has considerable experience advising private equity firms on cross border acquisitions. He has advised clients on private placements, management buy-outs and sale of businesses, and has advised clients extensively on cross border and GCC-wide acquisitions and divestitures. His most recent transactions involved the sale of the Fitness First franchise in the Middle East; the sale of a logistics company to Toll group, Australia and of another logistics company to Barloworld, South Africa. He also represented the National Bank of Fujairah in arranging acquisition financing for the purchase by the buyer of a majority interest in the Dubai Wire Group; and represented Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank in its acquisition of the retail and SME business of Royal Bank of Scotland.
In addition to his private equity and M&A practice, Amjad acted for several banks and borrowers in major restructurings of debt. He’s also been involved in launching various banking related products and services for clients in the UAE including the most recent Direct Debit System introduced by the UAE Central Bank in the fourth quarter of 2013.