Mutaz Mukhtar
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate Transition Structuring
- Executing the legal re-engineering of family businesses into institutional corporate entities.
- M&A & Transactional Law
- Directing complex cross-border due diligence, liability frameworks, and high-value asset transfers.
- Regulatory Compliance
- Architecting robust enterprise compliance mechanisms and corporate governance policies.
- Institutional Board Oversight
- Enforcing fiduciary accountability, statutory compliance, and rigorous corporate secretarial processes.
Corporate lawyer and General Counsel with 25+ years — building legal frameworks and governance protocols, and executing high-value cross-border M&A including the $450M JTI acquisition of Haggar Cigarette & Tobacco.
Mutaz Mukhtar constructs sophisticated legal frameworks, corporate transition architectures, and institutional governance protocols, drawing on more than 25 years’ experience as a senior corporate lawyer and General Counsel. He directs high-stakes M&A structuring, liability containment, and cross-border regulatory compliance, notably executing the $450 million acquisition of Haggar Cigarette & Tobacco Factory by Japan Tobacco International.
He specialises in the legal transformation of regional family-owned businesses into fully compliant, internationally structured corporate entities. By establishing rigorous in-house legal departments, compliance systems, and board governance structures, he ensures strict institutional accountability and mitigates systemic legal risk.