Where Principle Meets Practice.
Kuwait's capital markets and legal landscape is our home. We navigate it with precision, integrity, and an unmatched depth of institutional experience.
Founded by the regulator who helped write the rules.
Alfahad & Partners is a premier Kuwaiti law firm advising leading financial institutions, investment companies, and corporations on their most complex and consequential matters. From landmark IPOs to cross-border mergers, contested commercial disputes to regulatory filings, we deliver counsel that is both technically rigorous and commercially astute.
Founded by Dr. Faisal Alfahad — former Commissioner of Kuwait's Capital Markets Authority and a distinguished scholar of law — the firm is built on a singular commitment: to provide clients with counsel as sophisticated as the transactions they undertake and as nuanced as the regulatory environments they operate in.
Years of Founder Experience
Attorneys & Legal Counsels
Years on Kuwait's CMA Board
Combined Deal Value Advised
EXPERTISE
We have a strong, multidisciplinary team of lawyers, professionals, and specialists organized across our key practice areas and sectors.
WHY ALFAHAD & PARTNERS
Our clients come to us not because we are large, but because we are precise.
Institutional knowledge
Our founding partner was involved in the development of Kuwait’s capital markets regulatory framework, including contributing to the drafting of the Executive Bylaw. This experience provides the firm with valuable institutional insight into the regulatory framework and its practical application.
Transactions and disputes
The analytical rigour of elite transactional lawyers combined with the advocacy experience of seasoned litigators — an advantage in both boardrooms and courtrooms.
A senior team, every time
Every matter is led by a senior lawyer with relevant expertise. We do not use complex transactions or disputes as training grounds for junior associates.
Boursa Kuwait Initial Public Offering
Legal Advisor to KAMCO Investment Co. (Subscription Agent)
One of Kuwait's most celebrated capital markets transactions and the first stock exchange in the GCC region to be privatised and operated by the private sector — a milestone in Kuwait's financial history.
850%+
OVERSUBSCRIBED
$33M
OFFERING SIZE
1st
EXCHANGE PRIVATISATION IN THE GCC
CMA
REGULATORY COORDINATION