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Lamaan plays a leading role in the Corporate and Commercial team at S&A Lawyers LLP and has been with the firm since September 2015.

Prior to joining the firm, she gained valuable international exposure through legal internships at Hisham & Associates in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and at Julius & Creasy in Colombo, Sri Lanka - one of the country’s oldest and most prominent law firms.

She acts for a broad range of global financial investors, banks and both national and multinational companies on various corporate transactions with a focus on foreign investments, legal due diligence investigations; major acquisitions in the tourism and hospitality industry; regulatory compliance and general banking and finance related matters.

NOTABLE MATTERS

Lamaan has worked with Partners on the following matters:  

•⁠  ⁠Advising a foreign investment company on its acquisition of a luxury resort property in the Maldives.
• Advising a foreign real estate company on the sale of a resort property in the Maldives.
• Advising an international real estate fund on its acquisition of two resort properties in the Maldives, and acting as local counsel in the related acquisition financing from a foreign financial institution.
• Advising a Maldivian telecommunications company on the financing of approximately USD 75 million from two international lenders.
• Advising a foreign bank on the re-financing of approximately USD 334 million for a portfolio of six tourism developments in the Maldives.
• Acting for a Middle Eastern financial institution in connection with two USD 10 million loan facilities to Maldivian banks.
• Advising a foreign investment company on the acquisition of leasehold rights to a resort island in the Maldives, and as local counsel on related financing from a regional financial institution.
• Advising an international real estate fund on its acquisition of a portfolio of luxury resorts in the Maldives, and as local counsel on the associated financing from a European bank.
• Advising the local subsidiaries of a listed Southeast Asian conglomerate as local counsel in connection with a public offering and sale of over one billion ordinary shares by the parent company.
• Advising a Southeast Asian real estate investment trust (REIT) on its acquisition of the holding company of a Maldivian resort, and as local counsel in relation to the acquisition financing from a regional bank.
• Advising an international real estate fund on the acquisition of a luxury resort property in the Maldives, and as local counsel on the related financing from a European financial institution.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Laws (Hons)

University of London

MEMBERSHIP & AFFILIATIONS

Member

Maldives Law Institute

Member

Bar Council of Maldives

PRACTICE AREAS

Banking and Finance

Capital Markets

Foreign Investments

Intellectual Property

Regulatory and Compliance

Restructuring and Insolvency

Tourism and Hospitality