Haris focuses on complex restructuring and insolvency matters, acquisition and event-driven financings and private debt transactions across the Middle East and Africa.
He has acted on some of the most innovative restructurings and financings in the region, including court supervised processes, and is known for taking a commercial approach to executing transactions.
Representative matters
A ministerial committee of the government of Saudi Arabia on a debt restructuring of systemic importance and dispute prevention work concerning a major conglomerate with businesses across the region.
Hayfin Capital on its landmark financing of a luxury residential development (Imperial Avenue in Downtown Dubai) in distressed circumstances using a highly novel and creative approach, involving multiple creditors and requiring the collaboration of the real estate regulator.
Fidera as the fulcrum creditor in the pioneering court supervised restructuring of Emirates Hospitals Group, the healthcare vertical in the KBBO Group, through the Abu Dhabi courts.
OSN, one of MENA's largest broadcasting networks, on a restructuring of its debt opposite a wide syndicate of international and regional lenders, which included the injection of an additional subordinated facility by a new lender.
A prominent international financial investor and emerging markets financial sponsor on the debt restructuring of a portfolio company operating in the FNB sector in Saudi Arabia.
Admissions
Academic
University College, University of Durham, UK (LLB Law (Hons))
Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, UK (Legal Practice Course)
