Asim Baluch

Asim Baluch is an Associate with over six years of experience advising on a range of advisory and transactional matters. His primary practice area is Banking and Finance Law, with particular expertise in banking and finance related matters.

He routinely represents clients, both borrowers and lenders, on lending transactions (bilateral and syndicated) as well as project financing. He has regularly drafted and negotiated financing and security documents and guided clients to successful closure of transactions. He is also adept in Islamic financing and routinely advises clients on the various structures in relation thereto.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi, he was a senior associate at a top-tier law firm in Pakistan, where he was routinely engaged in banking and finance transactional matters, including project finance, syndications, bilateral lending and Islamic finance.

His recent experience includes advising an international aircraft leasing company on a change in security trustee from a UAE law perspective, advising a syndicate of local banks on the restructuring of conventional and Islamic financing facilities granted to a UAE borrower, advising a local company on the refinancing of its USD 60,000,000 facilities, and acting for the lenders in connection with a USD 45,000,000 brownfield project in Fujairah for the construction of a white cement manufacturing plant. He has also acted for the sponsors as local counsel on a 180 MIGD Hassyan sea water reverse osmosis independent water project in Dubai and a 90 MIGD independent water project in Hamriyah, Sharjah, and acted as co-counsel for the Roads and Transport Authority of UAE on concession arrangements for the initial public offering of Parkinco on the Dubai Financial Market.

He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London (2016) and was admitted to the Sindh Bar Council in 2018. He speaks English and Urdu.