Joy Kadi

Joy's deal experience in the region includes acting for:

• Gladstone Investment Corporation's portfolio company Specialized Fabrication Equipment Group LLC on their cross-border acquisition of CPMT Holdings Corp. and subsidiaries, including Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc. (Deal value: USD 85 million) and post-completion related matters.
• Le Creuset, a French manufacturer of cookware on consumer protection compliance.
• doTerra, an oil essential business with an international presence, to launch its specialised oil products in the UAE market, including incorporating their company in Dubai and advising on regulatory matters as well as employment/ HR-related matters and commercial agreements with contractors and customers.
• Spanish hotel operator, Barcelo Hotel Group, on its Middle East hotel management operations and regulatory compliance.
• SHEIN, a leading Chinese e-commerce platform company on its Middle East operations and regulatory compliance.
• A UAE-based entity on a challenging power generation project in the Port of Aden, Yemen (deal value: USD 32 million).
• Biogroup, a French leader group of medical analysis laboratories in France for its potential 100% acquisition, which involved advising on local healthcare regulatory matters and licensing requirements related to the potential seller, Unilabs, a Swiss-based business that has a network of clinical labs, blood collection centres and imaging centres across Europe (deal value: USD 5 billion).
• Network International on the acquisition of point of sale (POS) and e-commerce portfolio of a UAE bank based in Dubai (deal value: $18 million).
• E&'s participation as lead investor in Almentor (a leading Arabic-language educational platform) in their $10 million pre-series C round; and
• Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp. on the acquisition of a financial technology company, Qenta Inc. (deal value: $622 million).