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Kathleen Bradley

Counsel
Doha
+974.4424.6115
Fax +974.4424.6101

Primary Practice

Secondary Practices

Education

  • Exec Masters in Leadership, Georgetown University, 2006, (Executive Masters in Leadership)
  • J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1984, (magna cum laude)
  • B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1977, (cum laude)

Admissions

  • Bar of Connecticut

Languages

  • English
  • Biography Overview
  • Additional Background
  • Representative Work
Kathleen Bradley is an international finance lawyer working in our Doha office with broad experience representing premier international financial institutions, multi-lateral agencies, corporations, and governments in connection with major financial and corporate transactions. She has represented clients in connection with multiple types of financings, including large-scale infrastructure projects, asset-based financings, Shari’ah compliant financings, local bond issues, debt issues, investments funds, and sovereign and corporate loans. She holds the Islamic Finance Qualification awarded by the Securities & Investment Institute, London, and the Ecole Supèrieure des Affairs, Lebanon.

Ms. Bradley’s practice also includes providing compliance (including anti-money laundering) advice and assistance to financial institutions established within the Qatar Financial Centre.

Professional Background

Prior to joining K&L Gates, Ms. Bradley worked with international firms in London, Bahrain, Moscow, and Washington, DC. She has also worked in both legal and management capacities with US firms and a multi-national corporation based in the United States.

Speaking Engagements

  • Negotiating the Terms & Conditions of Project Debt and Achieving Financial Close, Abu Dhabi International Finance Conference, 2001
  • U.S. Law Offices Abroad: What You Need to Know When Entering a New Market, Practicing Law Institute, June 2007
Conventional Finance
Ms. Bradley has represented both banks and borrowers in a variety of conventional financing arrangements in the Middle East and internationally, including in relation to the following transactions:
  • Large power projects, including the $1.8 billion Hub River Power Project in Pakistan and the $160m Cana Brava Hydroelectric Power Project in Brazil as counsel for the development banks
  • Syndicated sovereign loans for the State of Qatar ($250m), the Sultanate of Oman ($400m), and the State of Kuwait ($100m)
  • $200m Series A Preference Share Issuance for Investcorp Bank BSC
  • Credit facilities for Qatari borrowers, including a syndicated facility for Qatar Petroleum ($400m), a secured facility for Qatar Shipping Company for the purchase of an Aframax tanker ($10m), and several multi-tranche (working capital and import finance) facilities for Mannai Trading and Mannai Corporation
  • Credit facilities for Bahraini borrowers, including multi-tranche facilities for Aluminium Bahrain for the expansion of an aluminium smelter ($130m) and the construction of a potline project ($75m), a syndicated facility for Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company for the financing of a urea project ($110m), a restructured loan facility for Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company ($35m), and a syndicated loan facility for Arab Banking Corporation ($150m)
  • Credit facilities for Saudi Arabian borrowers, including a syndicated multi-currency construction finance facility for Saudi Oger ($150m), a syndicated loan facility for Saudi Aramco ($225m), a syndicated performance bond facility for AMI Saudi Arabia (SR60M), a receivables purchase facility for Zahid Tractors (SR100m), a syndicated multi-currency facility for the Olayan group ($40m), a revolving standby credit facility for Saudi Cable Company ($25m), a multi-currency revolving short term credit, letter of credit and bond facility for Al Hidada Co. Ltd. ($6m), various high value, secured credit facilities for high net worth individuals in Saudi Arabia, and a deposit placement agreement for Saudi Pak Industrial and Agricultural Investment Co. ($21m)
  • Credit facilities for other borrowers in connection with Middle East projects, including a syndicated revolving receivables purchase facility for Bechtel Corporation relating to the purchase of receivables arising from a project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ($70m), a syndicated asset finance facility for Arab Satellite Communications Organization ($104m), a multi-currency short term advance, overdraft, letter of credit, and bond facility for Archirodon Construction (Overseas) Co. to finance a dredging and reclamation project in Abu Dhabi, a bilateral loan facility for Consolidated Contractors (Oil and Gas) Company to finance a project for the development of the Masila oil field in Yemen ($50m)
  • Syndicated facilities for Gulf Air Company and Kuwait Airways, including facilities for the purchase of aircraft, aircraft engines, and flight simulators
  • Various pre-export syndicated finance facilities for Russian oil companies, including Lukoil ($100m), Tomskneft ($55m), and Sidanco ($225m)

Islamic Finance 
Ms. Bradley has represented a number of Islamic and commercial banks in connection with Shari’ah compliant financings in the Middle East, including in relation to the following transactions:
  • Shari’ah-compliant commodity sale and purchase agreements for PIA Investments Limited (oil and oil products) and Saudi Pak (natural gas)
  • Mudaraba products for the Islamic window of a conventional bank
  • An Istisna’a Sale and Purchase (automobiles) with Fiat ($50m)
  • An Istisna’a Sale and Purchase (power plant equipment) with Aluminium Bahrain ($60m)
  • An Ijara Lease arrangement (Boeing flight simulator) for Gulf Air Company ($15m)
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