Ahmad Anani and Jihane Rizk write for The Legal Industry Reviews: Qatar on new public M&A rules
min readHead of Capital Markets and Regulation (Middle East) Ahmad Anani and Corporate Legal Director Jihane Rizk contributed an article to The Legal Industry Reviews: Qatar on the Qatar Financial Markets Authority’s Board Decision No. 8 of 2025, which introduced the Offering and Listing, and Mergers and Acquisitions Rules 2025, thereby changing Qatar’s public-company M&A regulatory framework.
In this article, they explore how the new rules apply compared to the previous regime, their scope (including the classification of reverse takeovers), details of the compulsory offer framework which introduced a new threshold of 90% for the venture market, and changes to the obligation on a person owning 90% or more as well as the formalisation of the temporary exemption mechanism.
Read the article in The Legal Industry Reviews: Qatar.
