Eng. Yasser Zaghloul has been the CEO of National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), an executive arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, UAE, since 2009, having previously been its head of operations. NDMC is responsible for large scale projects in the dredging and marine construction industry. Eng. Yasser's vision has been to expand NMDC so that it becomes a key international competitor in the market. This started in 2009, when NMDC acquired the Upper Zakum project, one of the furthest man made islands offshore. This project presented the company with many challenges, all of which were successfully overcome, leading to NMDC being recognised as one of the 20 best companies in the UAE according to Forbes German Foundation. Recent projects carried out by NDMC under Eng. Zhagloul's leadership have included the Khalifa Port Expansion, New Suez Canal and Gujarat LNG terminal.
Andrew has a wealth of experience in cross-border asset and project finance, with particular emphasis on the marine transportation and offshore sectors. He has represented clients including lenders, agent banks, lessors, lessees and owners on the financing of ships, shipping related assets (such as container boxes) and offshore assets. He also represents shipping companies in relation to non-contentious commercial shipping matters, including sale and purchase, newbuilding contracts and resales, transaction joint ventures and strategic alliances, charters and other contracts of employment for ships, shipping related assets and offshore assets.
Andrew is co-author of the FFABA Forward Freight Agreement and Freight Option Agreement and has been involved in advising on a number of disputes relating to freight derivative transactions. He is also consulting on updating the rules and regulations of Federal Law No. 26 of 1981 'Maritime Law' and was recently featured in Seatrade's UAE Special Report 2016.
Sanjay since 2014 is chairman of his family trust fund, S ONE Trust and is CEO of S ONE Capital, asset manager of the trust fund based out of Geneva and London, prior to that Sanjay held the position of Managing Director, Essar Capital Limited asset manager for Essar Global Fund a USD 34 billion proprietary fund of the Ruia family. In 2006 Sanjay was instrumental in setting up of Essar Global Fund and its investment manager Essar Capital Limited. At Essar Global Fund he led and executed on a wide range of high profile M&A, financing, capital market transactions including one of the largest IPO on London Stock Exchange.
JesperKjaedegaard is a professional independent Board Member of several maritime related companies and also a Partner at Mercator International, an international consulting firm specializing in offering advisory services to Infrastructure Funds and Private Equity Firms with an interest in ports, vessels and other maritime related assets.
Mr. Kjaedegaard had a long and distinguished career with the A.P.Moller-Maersk Group where he served as a member of the A.P.MollerGroup's Executive Board for all Container related Business, whilst also heading up the company's global liner company, known then as Maersk-Sealand. He was also deeply involved in developing the Group's container terminal activities, now better known as APMTerminals. In 2005 he relocated to the UK to become CEO of the The Maersk Company Ltd, until he left the company in 2009.
Based in Dubai, MrKjaedegaard currently serves as a Non-Executive Board Director for a number of both listed and privately owned maritime and transport related companies in Europe, India and South America, and he is also past President of the British Chamber of Shipping and Chairman of Maritime UK.
Anders Kron has broad international experience in logistics and port-related businesses and today is Commercial Manager Middle East at SOHAR Port and Freezone. Before joining the team at SOHAR in 2013, Kron worked with JAFZA in Dubai for more than six years. Kron heads the Dubai branch office for SOHAR and is responsible for business development throughout the GCC. SOHAR Port and Freezone is a 50:50 joint venture between Port of Rotterdam and the government of the Sultanate of Oman.
Ziad joined Fichte & Co in June 2016 in the capacity of partner. He specialises in corporate M&A andstructuring of corporations and businesses. He assist clients in the GCC region to structure their international investments, businesses and corporation in the GCC region and abroad. Furthermore, Ziad has a considerable experience in dealing with commercial contractual matters, real estate and construction.
Before joining Fichte & Co, Ziad worked during (7) years as general counsel for respectively a medium size group in Abu Dhabi and a Saudi Arabian conglomerate involved in six major sectors of activities; real estate, construction, building material, industrial sector, and the services sector (insurance, investments, private equity, tourism, …) spread throughout the GCC, North Africa, South East Asia and Europe.
Prior to working in in-house roles, Ziad worked for (14) years respectively with leading law firms whether in Singapore, the UAE or Lebanon.
Negotiated on behalf of his client the settlement of a real estate dispute between partners involving amounts exceeding 600 million US$.
Represented his client in the merger between Emirates Global Islamic Bank co-owned by the client (52%) and operating in Pakistan with Al- Baraka Bank including swap of shares.
Ziad has contributed to articles regarding the real estate legislations in the UAE and he also participated as a lecturer to seminars and conferences in Singapore, Malaysia, Pakistan and UAE where he lectured on the companies' law and the corporate legal regimes in the UAE and Qatar, the governance as well as the Aviation law.
Ziad teaches in Paris-France at the University of Paris- Pantheon-ASSAS, to the students of the "Business law of the Arabic Countries" LLM the course related to the "Companies' laws of the GCC countries".
Resident in Dubai for 20 years, initially as the Finance Director for a major regional participant in the oil services and vessel owning sectors, prior to establishing arabCapital in 2000 and partnering with London based Tufton Oceanic Finance Group ('TOFG') in shipping and offshore sector finance and investment assignments.
Tufton Oceanic (Middle East) Limited ('TOME') a DIFC registered DFSA regulated asset manager, was established in 2006. TOME manages conventional and Shariah compliant funds invested in the marine sector on behalf of a number of GCC and international institutions. To date investments exceeding US$1,300.0m have been made by TOME whilst in aggregate TOFG manages in excess of US$2.0bn of assets, all invested in the international marine and offshore sectors.
Bora Bariman is Head of the Energy & Marine segment with National Bank of Fujairah. The remit of the team covers energy infrastructure, oil trading and bunkering, energy related marine finance. Previously he was an oil and gas banker in London with Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland. He started his career in finance with natural gas production and distribution companies in the US. He has been active in arranging project finance, reserve based lending, and structured commodity finance. Mr. Bariman received a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government where his work focused on finance and regulation of large scale infrastructure.