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State of Qatar bond offer

US$7,000.00 m

Entry date - Monday, 4 January 2010
Jurisdiction - Qatar
Practice - Debt Market
Largest bond offering by a Middle East issuer

Firm Latham & Watkins Client Qatar Ministry of Economy and Finance Lead Lawyers Bill Voge, Craig Stoehr, Phillip von Randow Role Int. Counsel

Firm
Latham & Watkins
Client
Qatar Ministry of Economy and Finance
Lead Lawyers
Bill Voge, Craig Stoehr, Phillip von Randow
Role
Int. Counsel

DEAL SUMMARY

Qatari government''s second bond offering in 2009. Issue has broken regional records as largest bond offering by a Middle East issuer.

Latham & Watkins has longstanding relationship with state of Qatar - advised on US$3bn bond offering in April 2009 again with Skadden, which advised underwriters. Firm retained by Qatari government in 2000 for inaugural bond issue

Follows recent US$1.6bn offering by Commercial Bank of Qatar.

Latham’s Craig Stoehr: “[The deal] is testament to the success of the carefully planned expansion and diversification of Qatar’s economy,” said Stoehr. “The Ministry of Economy and Finance and its State Finance Policy Committee … [established] Qatar as a strong sovereign credit and sophisticated debt capital markets issuer in only a little more than six months.”

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