Winston Taylor appoints Abdullah Mutawi as co-chair of global venture capital practice

Abdullah Mutawi has been appointed co-chair of Winston Taylor’s Global Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Practice. In addition to this role, he serves as chair of the firm’s Transactional Practice in the MENA region.

He leads a team of 12 dedicated lawyers, providing the full spectrum of M&A, private equity, venture capital, investment funds, commercial advisory, corporate structuring, employment and regulatory services, alongside a well-established special situations capability.

With nearly 30 years of experience across London and the Middle East, Mutawi advises on M&A, corporate finance, venture capital and special situations. He has led more than 100 venture capital financings, multibillion-dollar M&A transactions, and numerous private equity deals, acting for sovereign wealth funds, banks, investment firms, family offices and public and private companies

The firm’s venture capital and emerging companies practice is one of the largest in the region and is ranked Band 1 by Chambers & Partners. The team has advised on more than 150 early-stage and growth-stage venture capital and M&A transactions and has been involved in many of the region’s most high-profile distressed situations involving growth-stage technology companies.

In recent years, the team’s experience has included advising global investors on several of the region’s landmark unicorn transactions, as well as representing venture capital, corporate venture capital and sovereign wealth fund clients deploying capital across the region and internationally, particularly in Silicon Valley, the UK and Europe.