AMJ,  along with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,  have advised Oman Telecommunications Company SAOG Group (Omantel) on the US$ 575 Million sale of its passive infrastructure tower assets to UK-based Helios Tower Plc., a leading infrastructure company listed on the London Stock Exchange, via a locally established SPV, (“Helios SPV”).     This transaction will involve the Read More

AMJ has recently advised, as local counsel, OQ S.A.O.C. on the launch of its global medium term notes (GMTN) programme valued at USD 2 billion, as well as on the first issuance under the programme valued at USD 750 million at a rate of 5.125% due in 2028. The firm worked together with the lead Read More

AMJ acted as sole legal counsel to the Government of Oman (as obligor), Oman Sovereign Sukuk Company S.A.O.C. (as issuer) and bank muscat S.A.O.G. and its Islamic window, Meethaq Islamic Banking, (as issue manager and lead manager) on the update of the Government of Oman’s Omani Rial unlimited value sukuk issuance programme and the issuance Read More

AMJ has advised the Oman Government and Sovereign Sukuk Company on the sale of US$1.5billion 5.92% sukuk certificates due 2025 and the update of its unlimited sukuk-al-ijara trust certificate issuance programme (Programme). The issue at the end of October 2018, received orders in excess of US$3.9bn according to Oman’s Ministry of Finance, and was rated Read More

AMJ acted as Oman counsel to the issue manager and joint lead manager on the debut sukuk offering by Mazoon Electricity Company S.A.O.C. The landmark transaction marks the first international corporate sukuk issue out of Oman, and the first Reg S/144A corporate sukuk out of the MENA region since May 2016. The ten-year Reg-S/144A sukuk Read More

AMJ has advised Qatar Petroleum on the acquisition of a 30% participating interest in the contractor’s interest under the exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA) for Block 52 offshore of Oman. The deal involved AMJ advising Qatar Petroleum on Oman’s corporate, oil and gas and environmental laws and related regulatory approvals. Following the completion of Read More

AMJ recently advised leading insurance group, Howden Broking Group on the acquisition of a majority stake from the founder shareholders of New Generation Insurance Services in Oman. The new entity is renamed Howden Insurance Brokers LLC. The parties agreed not to disclose details of the transaction terms. Howden is the retail broking arm of UK-based Read More

AMJ recently acted as Oman legal counsel advising a syndicate of international, regional and local financial institutions on the US$728 million project financing of the Salalah ammonia project which closed in August 2017. The 12-year facility was partly used to refinance the existing debt of Salalah Methanol Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oman Oil Company, Read More

AMJ advised Al Ahlia Insurance Company on its maiden IPO, conversion to a joint stock company and listing on Muscat Securities Market (MSM). The IPO raised OMR 7.5 million through the public offering of a 25% stake (25,000,000 shares at a price of 300 baisas per share) open to individual and institutional investors. It was Read More

AMJ has advised the Government of Oman and the issuer, Oman Sovereign Sukuk Company, on the Omani law aspects of establishing an unlimited sukuk alijarah trust certificate issuance programme, and the debut US$2bn international sukuk issuance under the Programme. The Programme was listed on the Irish Stock Exchange in mid-May and followed by the US$2bn Read More

AMJ has advised on the establishment of Oman Global Logistics Group SAOC (OGL), the government’s new transport and logistics development arm. OGL, which has a mandate to implement the nation’s long-term ‘Sultanate of Oman Logistics Strategy 2040’, will bring under one umbrella the 15 different transport and logistics-related undertakings operating in the Sultanate’s ports, free Read More

AMJ recently acted as sole counsel at the request of both parties with regard to a complex share-purchase transaction in the insurance sector. The transaction, which completed at the end of March, involved the transfer of the Oman branch assets of Lebanese Arabia Insurance SAL, to Omani insurer, Falcon Insurance SAOC. Contemporaneous with Falcon’s acquisition Read More

AMJ has advised Bank Muscat, Oman’s largest bank by assets, on a three-year term loan facility of US$525 million with a consortium of 12 relationship banks which closed on March 8. Part of the proceeds of the loan, which was coordinated by Bank ABC and National Bank of Abu Dhabi, will be used to refinance Read More

AMJ has advised the government on Omani law aspects of the country’s largest debt capital markets issue to date. The US$5 billion offering in tranches of five, 10 and 30 years was settled on 8 March 2017. The five-year tranche totalled US$1 billion, while the 10- and 30-year tranches raised US$2 billion each. The bonds Read More

AMJ acted as sole Omani Counsel to all the parties on the Oman government’s recent US$500mn sukuk issuance. The sovereign sukuk issuance, Oman’s first US dollar-denominated sukuk issuance, was privately placed by Oman Sovereign Sukuk S.A.O.C, a special purpose vehicle incorporated in Oman and wholly owned by the Government of Oman. The certificates were priced Read More