ABOUT HESSAM KALANTAR

~ Hessam Kalantar is admitted to the Bars of New York, USA and Ontario, Canada.  He is a graduate of McGill University, where he earned both common and civil law degrees. Hessam has almost twenty years of firm and in-house practice experience in Canada, US and the Middle East, including at some of the most pre-eminent global law firms. In New York and Dubai Hessam has acted for leading private equity, venture capital and other providers of capital in connection with investments in technology and e-commerce, media, financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, energy, hospitality and food and beverage industries, among others.  He has worked on many landmark financing and restructuring transactions, including one of the largest restructurings in the Middle East and the largest syndicated lending in Turkey. His experience in the Middle East encompasses advice on deploying capital into the Middle East region, company and fund formation, and investment exits. And Hessam's technology practice, including advising technology start-ups, spans the period from the dotcom and business process outsourcing booms through to cloud computing and Fintech. After over a decade in global law firms, Hessam has spent many years as Deputy General Counsel at a significant, emerging markets telecommunications investment group operating across several geographies ~

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