Zubair is an international corporate finance lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, telecommunications and investment fund formations. Zubair also advises on the creation of Shariah compliant
investment vehicles and undertaking corporate finance transactions on a Shariah compliant basis.
Zubair was recently named by Private Equity International in the list of "The 30 Most Influential Lawyers in Global Private Equity" and distinguished as one of "the World's 25 Pre-eminent Islamic Finance Practitioner's" by Expert Guides 2009 – Best of the Best. Further he is named as a leading corporate finance and mergers and acquisition lawyer in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers, the Chambers Global Guide 2009 and The Legal 500 2009.
Zubair is also named by PLC as "The leading investment funds lawyer in the UAE" in its publication Investment Funds - The Law and Leading Lawyers Worldwide 2007/2008.
Credentials
- Investcorp Bank on the creation of its US$1 billion private equity Investcorp Gulf Opportunity Fund and Investcorp Islamic Gulf Opportunity FundI
- Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) - advised Emirates Telecommunications Corporation Limited on the US$2.65 billion acquisition of 26 percent with management control of PTCL in a privatisation by the Government of Pakistan. This was the largest transaction in the history of Pakistan
- Global Investment House, Kuwait and Millennium Capital on the creation of the US$1 billion Islamic Buyout Fund
- Millennium Financial Advisory/Dubai Islamic Bank and Dubai World in relation to the US$1 billion TMT Private Equity Fund and the US$1 billion Energy Private Equity Fund. Both funds are part of the first of its kind Shariah compliant US$5billion family of private equity funds to participate in strategic transactions on a global basis
- EFG-Hermes (the largest investment bank in Egypt) in relation to the creation of its US$1 billion MEDA Fund
- Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) on its US$2.9 billion acquisition of Egypt’s third mobile operator license
- Abraaj Capital and Deutsche Bank on the establishment of the Shariah compliant US$2billion Infrastructure and Growth Capital Fund