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Rachel Decker

Rachel Decker is the Managing Partner and has structured financing transactions in excess of $3.5bn and regularly represents Family Offices as their Buy Side Advisor. Forbes Middle East selected her for their “30 Under 30” 2021 list.

Prior to co-founding D&H in 2018, she was a member of the Corporate Finance Department at Mashreq Bank and the Leveraged Finance Group at Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai. She completed MoodysLeveraged Buy Out Bootcamp in Singapore in 2015.

She has structured single financing transactions in excess of USD $1bn and successfully brought and executed the first construction finance transaction in the US for Mashreq Bank.

Rachel began her career with the Bank of Montreal in Chicago. She was hired for a highly competitive analyst development program and was subsequently hired into Real Estate Debt Capital Markets and Project Development team where she executed transactions throughout North America.

She graduated with Honors in her BBA at the University of Iowa (USA) in Finance and Arabic Language.

Adil Taqi

Adil Taqi is a partner at Decker Halabi DMCC he was most recently the Vice Chairman at DICO, the multi-billion dollar family office of Mr. Sajwani, in Dubai

He spent 15 years at the DAMAC grou and masterminded the design and execution of their financial strategy. This included numerous complex cross-border corporate finance and M&A transactions including taking DAMAC public on the LSE, moving the listing to Dubai and then ultimately de-listing 9 years later.

Adil spearheaded DAMACs debt program that entailed raising over USD2.5B across instruments and markets, taking the transactional value under his leadership at DAMAC to over USD4.5B

§Prior to DAMAC, Adil was the CEO at Muriya Development Company in Oman, held senior positions in the Omani banking industry, and Oil and Gas industry.

Adil holds a BSc. In Mathematics-with-Engineering from the University of Nottingham, UK, and an Executive MBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. Adil is also an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK.

Abdul wahab Al-Halabi

Abdul wahab Al-Halabi is a Partner at Decker & Halabi DMCC and has 20 years of experience in debt restructuring, crisis management, turnarounds. He is a board member of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, TPL, DXB Entertainments, and Union Properties.

He previously served as the CEO of Global Investment House K.P.S.C., Group Chief Investment Officer for Equitativa, and Group Chief Investment Officer of Meraas Holding where he was responsible for its Capital Markets, Investments, Funding and Finance divisions.

He started his career with KPMG in London working on debt advisory services and restructuring before returning to Dubai as a Chief Operating Officer of Dubai Land and Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Properties Group including other entities in the Dubai Holding portfolio.

Mr. Al-Halabi holds a degree in Economics from London School of Economics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Rachel Decker

Adil Taqi

Abdul wahab Al-Halabi

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