Talal Bijjani is a co-founding Partner and currently heads the corporate practice at the firm. Talal has more than 15 years of experience as a business and transactional lawyer. He has been acting for clients through out the region on negotiating and managing strategic sales. Talal specializes in the areas of banking and finance, capital markets, project finance, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, commercial and corporate law, and corporate structuring. He advises boards and senior management on corporate governance. Talal holds a Ph.D. in Law, LLM in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University and an Islamic Finance Certificate from Harvard Law School. He is also a law professor at a prominent university in Beirut.