Walid Chamma

Senior Director
15+ years of investment banking experience
Expertise in debt advisory, special situations and debt restructuring
Dubai
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Walid Chamma is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Debt Advisory team in Dubai. He specializes in assisting companies (both healthy and stressed) to assess strategic capital structure considerations. His primary areas of concentration are debt advisory, special situations and debt restructuring.

With more than 15 years of investment banking experience, Mr. Chamma has successfully worked on some high profile capital raises and debt restructurings in the GCC. He has worked with clients across a range of industries, including construction and building materials, manufacturing, retail and offshore maritime.

Mr. Chamma’s notable assignments include Saudi Bin Laden, Arabian Centres (renamed to Cenomi), Fawaz Al Hokair Fashion Retail, Takween Advanced Industries, Finablr and Maridive Offshore. Most recently, he was responsible for spearheading Houlihan Lokey’s activities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Chamma spent five years with the Financial Restructuring Team of Houlihan Lokey in Dubai, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President. During this period, he formulated and initiated the Saudi go-to-market strategy and was responsible for originating and executing complex new money raised and debt restructurings across the region.

Previously, Mr. Chamma served with Mubadala, with a focus on the technology and semiconductor sector. Before that, he was with Morgan Stanley in London in their Mergers and Acquisitions team.

Mr. Chamma earned a bachelor’s degree in business and finance from the Imperial College of London.

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A&M's Middle East Turnaround and Restructuring Survey aims to help businesses and restructuring and law specialists to keep a finger on the pulse of anticipated trends and be prepared to act.
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A survey by Alvarez & Marsal’s Debt Advisory group with approximately 100 private debt funds across the U.K., Europe and the U.S. shows investors are expecting increased dealmaking and fundraising activity in 2024. Responses also suggest that liquidity in the market will improve, but it will not result in lower pricing or higher leverage levels this year.