Hanna Chalhoub is Of Counsel in the Dubai office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. He also practiced out of Gibson Dunn’s New York office for 18 months. He is a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups.

Mr. Chalhoub’s advises institutional investors, asset managers, and corporations on a wide range of complex cross-border transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and co-investment deals and structures, and general corporate matters.

Mr. Chalhoub is recommended for United Arab Emirates: Commercial, Corporate and M&A by Legal 500 EMEA 2022, which noted the team is “commercial, responsive/available, deploy diverse teams. Pleasant to work with”. In previous years, clients have noted the team is: “extremely commercial and able to leverage global insight quickly and efficiently”.

Mr. Chalhoub received his law degree, with honors, from Saint-Joseph University in Beirut. Additionally, Mr. Chalhoub received a professional Masters in Litigation, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, with honors, from the French section of the Lebanese University. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2008 and received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law, where he won the Munger Prize for Scholars in International and Business Law.

Mr. Chalhoub was seconded to the legal division and the private equity department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and to the legal department of Investcorp Holdings B.S.C. in 2019. He completed a summer internship at the Court of Appeal of Paris in 2005.

Mr. Chalhoub is a member of the Beirut Bar Association and is admitted to practice in the State of New York. He is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

Selected Experience

• Carlyle Group MENA Fund:  Represented Carlyle Group MENA Fund in connection with the sale of its stake in General Lighting Company, a leading lighting fixtures manufacture and supplier in Saudi Arabia, to Royal Philips.
• Fajr Capital Ltd.:  Represented a consortium of investors led by Fajr Capital Ltd. in connection with its acquisition of National Petroleum Services, a leading oilfield well drilling services provider operating in the Middle East and South East Asia.
• Gulf Capital:  Represented Gulf Capital in connection with the sale of a stake in Metito Holding Company Ltd. (the largest privately owned water treatment company in the Middle East, with a portfolio of wastewater treatment and desalination projects across the Middle East and China) to Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; and represented Metito Holding and its majority shareholders in connection with its issuance of preference shares to Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
• MOBY Group (MOBY):  Represented MOBY Group (MOBY), a media company headquartered in Dubai and active in Central Asia, in connection with a deal pursuant to which News Corporation became a minority investor in MOBY.
• Mezzan Holding Company:  Represented Mezzan Holding, a Middle Eastern conglomerate headquartered in Kuwait, in connection with its acquisition of the sole distributor of Red Bull products in the United Arab Emirates.