Osman is a seasoned business adviser and results-driven legal executive with over 13 years’ experience as trusted corporate counsel in the Oil & Gas, Construction and Building Technologies sectors and in private practice.  He has over a decade’s worth of experience in the Middle East, five years of which he spent heading up regional in-house legal functions at United Technologies Corporation (Legal Director, Middle East and Turkey) and BP plc (Head of Legal, MENA).  Before co-founding Argentum Law, Osman also gained considerable international experience in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and North Africa with world-class organizations including Carillion plc (Solicitor, MENA) and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.  

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Selected representative roles and matters:

• Over his career Osman has counselled executive-suite management teams of listed multinationals on a multitude of corporate/commercial matters, including JVs, strategic alliances, M&A, expansions/restructurings, enterprise risk management, BCPs, governance/compliance, commercial transactions, disputes, trade sanctions, and employment. 
• Advising on acquiring aviation fuel sales and marketing concessions at two Iraqi airports and leading on establishment of local operations. 
• Advising on the bid to acquire downstream assets of an oil major exiting Egypt, (due diligence, contract drafting and responding to tenders). 
• Advising multinationals in regards to restructuring routes to market in Pakistan, Oman, Qatar and Iraq and assisted them navigate disputes with local distributors. 
• Advising multinationals on business set-ups in the UAE, Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
• Advising on tenders and negotiated construction contracts relating to construction mega-projects in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, including infrastructure, residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects.
• Advising the successful bidder on first-ever hostile takeover in history of North American biotechnology industry (valued at USD 584 million).