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Tim Sunar

Partner
About

Tim Sunar is a corporate lawyer with over a decade of experience in the Middle East, having relocated to the region in 2009 from Canada.

Tim s practice focuses predominantly on Saudi Arabia and Bahrain where he advises domestic and multinational organisations, private equity and venture capital investors and government and quasi-government entities, on cross-border M&A, corporate finance, international joint ventures, reorganisations and a range of commercial transactions.

Tim has managed transactions across a broad range of sectors, including oil and gas, industrials, petrochemicals, defence, real estate, manufacturing and construction.

Bar admissionsProvince of Ontario, Canada, 2006

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising a Saudi headquartered petrochemicals company on various matters including:
    • the sale and lease back of a significant operating asset*
    • the acquisition of a mixed-use commercial/residential complex*
  • Advising a Saudi-SME focused venture capital fund on various equity and debt investments*
  • Advising a multi-lateral sovereign-owned entity on the acquisition and divestment of equity interests in various oil and gas related entities*
  • Advising a global corporation in the defence sector on various confidential matters*
  • Advising an international manufacturer of advanced composite materials on the licensing of certain technologies and the provision of certain services to a Saudi-headquartered multinational in order to manufacture the materials in Saudi Arabia*
  • Advising a Saudi-headquartered petrochemicals company on various commercial transactions, including long term, high volume raw material, feedstock and product supply and offtake arrangements*
  • Advising both international and domestic parties on numerous joint ventures relating to oil and gas, engineering and construction, industrials, defence, technology and chemicals*
  • Advising the consortium comprised of Saudi, Brazilian, Turkish, Korean, Spanish and Swiss companies on their successful bid for one of the packages to construct the Riyadh Metro project*
  • Advising a multilateral sovereign-owned entity on the establishment of, and investment in, an investment fund established to purchase assets in the hydrocarbon shipping industry*

*Denotes experience from a previous law firm

Languages
  • English
  • Dutch
  • Turkish
Education
  • Queen's University, Bachelor of Laws, 2005
  • London School of Economics, Bachelor of Science, 2001

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Law Society of Ontario (Ontario, Canada)

Connect

Phone

+973 1755 0890
(Work, Manama)
+966 13 813 9966
(Work, Al Khobar)
+973 36 111 380
(Mobile)