
Asad Qayyum
Managing Partner, MAQ Legal (Muscat, Oman)
+ 968 2482 9277 / +968 2482 9200
Banking & Financing; Islamic Finance; Capital Markets (Debt & Equity)
QLTT, BPP College of Professional Studies, London, UK
Bar Vocational Course, BPP College of Professional Studies, London, UK
PgDL, BPP College of Professional Studies, London, UK
LLM, BPP College of Professional Studies, London, UK
LLB (Hons), Quaid-e-Azam Law College, Lahore, Pakistan
BA in Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Member of the Law Society of England and Wales
Member of the Bar Council of England and Wales
Member of the Lahore High Court Bar Association
Member of the Punjab Bar Council
Asad is a dual-qualified corporate - commercial lawyer with 22 years of experience and particular expertise in the Islamic Finance, Oil and Gas and Mining sectors. Asad has particular expertise advising listed and private companies with respect to their project debt and equity financings (conventional and Islamic), public and private mergers and acquisitions (including acquisitions and disposals of hydrocarbon assets (onshore and offshore)) and negotiating clients' commercial contracts across the globe (including in the United Kingdom, Oman, Canada, Middle East, Pakistan, Cameroon, Tanzania, Namibia, Burundi, Benin, Cameroon, Nigeria and Kazakhstan).
As a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and advocate of the Pakistan courts Asad combines cross- border expertise with an intimate knowledge of Oman law and practice gained over 8+ years' of legal practice in the country.
Asad is a highly reputed lawyer having won multiple accolades for his work on Corporate and Finance, Capital Markets, Islamic Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions transactions in the Sultanate of Oman. Asad is qualified as a barrister of England and Wales and a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. In addition, Asad is an Advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan.