Ezekiel is the managing partner at ASAR – Al Ruwayeh & Partners, with over 26 years of legal experience. He specialises in M&A, private equity, capital markets, restructuring and insolvency, and banking and finance.
Ezekiel’s recent M&A work includes advising on groundbreaking transactions such as Macquarie AirFinance Group’s acquisition of 76 aircraft from ALAFCO Aviation Lease and Finance Company, which is Kuwait’s largest aircraft fleet acquisition transaction, and the acquisition of the Bahraini-based Ahli United Bank BSC by Kuwait Finance House KSCP, Kuwait’s largest Islamic bank, which led to the creation of one of the largest Islamic banking groups in the region. He also advised on Americana Group’s dual listing of Americana Restaurants International PLC on the Saudi Arabian stock exchange (Tadawul) and the Abu Dhabi stock exchange (ADX), with the group becoming the first company to be dual-listed on the Tadawul and the ADX.
Ezekiel is a member of the Uganda Law Society, the East Africa Law Society, and the International Bar Association.
