Financial Restructuring MENA Conference 2024 | Great Minds Event Management | 12 February 2024 | Abu Dhabi Global Market, Island, ADGM Authorities Building, Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi Global Market Square, Abu Dhabi, UAE

MENA’s largest banks by assets and key stakeholders to address corporate insolvencies and debt restructurings in the wider MENA region from the 15th to 16th March 2023 at the ADGM Authorities Building in Abu Dhabi.

Organized by GM Events, the conference served as a platform for enabling successful restructuring solutions for large corporates and family businesses in the current market conditions while fostering effective management of non-performing asset (NPA) portfolios of MENA’s banks.

The strategic MENA conference addressed some of the most vital topics including driving business profitability and asset health for MENA’s lenders by effectively managing NPA portfolios, driving financial restructuring and business turnarounds in highly leveraged and volatile markets, and developing mature NPL sales market in MENA.

ADGM and Bankruptcy Commission Saudi Arabia delivered keynotes focusing on promoting business continuity through business conducive regulations and evolving insolvency regimes that augmented corporate restructuring. This was followed by presentations, panel discussions and onstage interviews which included discussions on the biggest insolvency workouts in the MENA region and developing a mature NPL sales market in the region.

2024 Speakers

Abdullah Al-Mogheerah
Secretary General, Bankruptcy Commission, Saudi Arabia

Balaji Prasad Natarajan
Group Chief Financial Officer, Binladin International Holding Group, Saudi Arabia

Dermot Murphy
Global Head Of Private Credit, HSBC, U.K.

Naveen Sabharwal
Managing Director, Davidson Kempner, U.K.

Bruno Navarro
Managing Director, Ipso Facto Ltd, U.A.E.

Mo Farzadi
Business Restructuring Services Partner And Middle East Leader, PwC, U.A.E.

Waseem Al-Sourani
General Manager, Special Assets Management, Saudi Awwal Bank, Saudi Arabia

H.E. Omar Saif Ghobash
Advisor To Minister Of Foreign Affairs UAE, Ambassador To The Holy See

Matthew Wilde
Senior Managing Director, Teneo, U.A.E.

Hamed Farzadi
Group Head Of Restructuring, Emirates NBD, U.A.E.

Luigi Orlandi
Chief Special Operations Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Austria

Louise Jones
Regional Head Of Special Credit Unit, MENAT, HSBC

Raihan Shaikh-Khaleel
Director And Chair Of Restructuring Committee, NMC Healthcare, U.K.

Elie Fakhoury
Senior Managing Director, Teneo, U.A.E.

Khalid Mohammed Ba Shniny
Executive Vice President, Head – Restructuring & Collections, Saudi National Bank, Saudi Arabia

Paul Leggett
Partner, Turnaround & Restructuring Leader, Deloitte Middle East, U.A.E.

Bader Hatim Yousif Al Tamimi
Partner, Baker Tilly, Saudi Arabia

Vikas Papriwal
Senior Managing Director, Leader, FTI Consulting - Middle East & Africa, U.A.E.

Turki Al Ahmari
Head Of Special Assets Management, Banque Saudi Fransi, Saudi Arabia

Paul Gilbert
Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal Middle East Limited, U.A.E.

David Beckett
Head Of Sourcing, SC Lowy, U.K.

AbdulAziz AlBassam
Chief Executive Officer, Al Jomaih Group, Saudi Arabia

Husni Almousli
Restructuring & Special Situations Attorney, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, U.K.

Alexander Erofeev
Chief Special Operations Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Austria

Angelo Carella
Associate Partner, Private Capital & Restructuring, Oliver Wyman, U.A.E.

Nigel Smith
Senior Managing Director, Quantuma International, U.K.

Sam Gidoomal
Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal Middle East Limited, U.A.E.

Andrew Dale
Head Of Syndicated Debt Restructuring, Saudi Awwal Bank, Saudi Arabia

Sara Sheffield
Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Oliver Carter
Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting - Middle East, U.A.E.

Dominik Nagly
Partner, Fidera, U.K.

Amir Ahmad
Partner, Reed Smith, UAE

Hisham Ashour
Chief Restructuring Officer, Azmeel Contracting Co., Saudi Arabia

Saeed Alsubaie
Head Of Large Corporate Special Assets Management Group, Al Rajhi Bank, Saudi Arabia

Sharif Eid
Fixed Income Portfolio Manager And Partner, Amwal Capital, U.A.E.

Berkay Oncel
Head Of MENAT Investments, SC Lowy, U.A.E.

2024 Sponors

HOST PARTNER:
• Abu Dhabi Global Market

STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• EISAR

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PARTNER:
• IFC

FINANCIAL ADVISORY PARTNER:
• Teneo

TRUSTEE PARTNER:
• Bakertilly

LUNCH PARTNER:
• FTI

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Pwc
• Kirkland & Ellis
• Quantuma
• Charles Russell Speechlys
• Oliver Wyman
• Deloitte
• A&M
• Tenet
• Cleary Gottlieb

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• Al Tammi
• ReedSmith
• Rothschild

NETWORKING PARTNER:
• Mann&AssociatesPAC

INDUSTRY PARTNERS:
• Ankura
• EY
• MHA
• AS&H
• Addleshaw Goddard

OFFICIAL LOGISTIC PARTNER:
• SITE