Jenan Banahi

Technology

• Advising and assisting a global crypto-asset exchange on its entry into the Middle East market and their negotiations with the Central Bank of Bahrain.
• Advising a top-ranked research institute and vaping technology solutions manufacturer on its market entry to Bahrain and the wider MENA region.
• Advising a regional company on the geopolitical assessments for its market entry strategy that included the set-up of a cryptocurrency exchange platform to be based in Bahrain.

Financial Services

• Advised a regional family business on their cross-border restructuring and distribution arrangements (circa USD1.4bn) with a multinational automotive manufacturer.
• Advising a global investment firm on undertaking a private equity offering to residents of Bahrain.
• Advising a regional bank on its potential acquisition of a manufacturing company.
• Advising a multinational conglomerate on the acquisition of assets from an industrial service company.
• Advising and assisting a regional authority on undertaking real estate investments in infrastructure projects in the non-MENA region.

Oil & Gas

• Advising a global independent commodities trading company on the restructuring of its subsidiaries in eastern Europe and the MENA region.
• Advising an American construction and environmental remediation company to establish operations in Bahrain and the wider MENA region.

Consumer Goods, Food & Retail

• Advising a multinational confectionary company on the regulatory framework of the food and beverage industry in the GCC region.

Life Sciences

• Advising a pharmaceutical company on the regulatory framework for supplying medical products to Bahrain.