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Bi-Lingual Banking & Finance Lawyer, Qatar, 3 Years+ PQE -3/02/2012 Our client is looking for a Bi-Lingual (English/Arabic) Junior-mid level lawyer ( 3 Years+ PQE) to join the Banking and Finance team in their office in Doha. The criteria is very specific and only candidates that match the requirements will be considered. The work is solely non-contentious dealing with a mix of transactional, advisory, general banking and finance regulatory work.

Bi-Lingual Banking & Finance Lawyer, Qatar, 3 Years+ PQE -3/02/2012

Our client is looking for a Bi-Lingual (English/Arabic) Junior-mid level lawyer ( 3 Years+ PQE) to join the Banking and Finance team in their office in Doha. The criteria is very specific and only candidates that match the requirements will be considered. The work is solely non-contentious dealing with a mix of transactional, advisory, general banking and finance regulatory work.

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State of Qatar bond offer

- $7,000.00 m

Entry date - Monday, 4 January 2010
Jurisdiction - Qatar
Practice - Debt Market
Largest bond offering by a Middle East issuer

Firm - Latham & Watkins Client - Qatar Ministry of Economy and Finance Lead Lawyers - Bill Voge, Craig Stoehr, Phillip von Randow Role - Int. Counsel

Firm - Latham & Watkins
Client - Qatar Ministry of Economy and Finance
Lead Lawyers - Bill Voge, Craig Stoehr, Phillip von Randow
Role - Int. Counsel

Deal summary

Qatari government''s second bond offering in 2009. Issue has broken regional records as largest bond offering by a Middle East issuer.

Latham & Watkins has longstanding relationship with state of Qatar - advised on US$3bn bond offering in April 2009 again with Skadden, which advised underwriters. Firm retained by Qatari government in 2000 for inaugural bond issue

Follows recent US$1.6bn offering by Commercial Bank of Qatar.

Latham’s Craig Stoehr: “[The deal] is testament to the success of the carefully planned expansion and diversification of Qatar’s economy,” said Stoehr. “The Ministry of Economy and Finance and its State Finance Policy Committee … [established] Qatar as a strong sovereign credit and sophisticated debt capital markets issuer in only a little more than six months.”

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