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Mishari M. Al-Ghazali's Profile
Founder and Managing Director

Kuwait University School of Law, LLB, 1985

Member of Kuwait Bar Association, 1985

Member of International Bar Association, 1992

Practice Areas: administrative, arbitration, civil, commercial, corporate, investments, banking and finance, M&A, securities, and taxes.

Al-Ghazali started his legal career since graduation as a public prosecutor at the Public Department of Investigations, the Director of Litigations Department at the Gulf Bank of Kuwait and a legal practitioner at the Law Firm of Mohammed Musa'ed Al-Saleh, the oldest law firm in the State of Kuwait and whose founder is the first attorney to be registered in Kuwait Bar Association. He specialized there in commercial and corporate matters, and thereafter he became a partner and moved to New York and Washington DC to work on different international commercial transactions at Graham & James, currently S.S.D, one of the most reputable international law firms, who became afterwards an affiliated firm with MMG in 1993.

Al-Ghazali contributed in applying the Complex Credit Reconciliation Program in 1986-1987, and prepared extensive researches concerning the application of Law No. 41/93, Complex Indebtedness Law. In 1993, he was appointed legal counsel of the Parliament - Financial Committee, for which he prepared a report regarding the legal aspects of Kuwait foreign investment. In 1997, he drafted the executive by-law of the Free Trade Zone, prepared the Articles of Association of the Islamic Bank, and prepared a study on the privatization of some State's companies and value assessment for the private sector.

He was appointed Counsel of the Higher Committee of Development and Economic Reform and contributed to projects related to competition laws, anti-trust, real estate management, transparency law and tax. In 2000, he was further appointed as a legal counsel by Kuwait Investment Authority, KIA, for Foreign Technological Investments in association with S.S.D and McKenzie. Al-Ghazali drafted in addition the executive by-law of the Foreign Direct Capital Investment Law in association with the International Monetary Fund, and prepared the policies concerning the incorporation of the Communication Authority in association with the World Bank. Al-Ghazali was appointed as a legal counsel for many oil, petrochemical, banks, and investment companies, representing more than 20% of the currently listed companies on Kuwait Stock Exchange Market.