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Ben Ewing

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T +968 2439 9905
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Landmark building
6rd Floor
23rd July Street
PO Box 41, PC 136
Muscat
Oman
Languages English

Ben Ewing heads up our CMS Office in Oman. His practice encompasses all aspects of corporate and commercial law, with a particular focus on global business projects, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions.

Ben has represented buyers, sellers and investors in all aspects of trade across a broad range of industry sectors, including finance, construction, commercial law, oil and gas, power and water, renewables, media and entertainment, telecommunications, manufacturing and distribution. He also advises corporate entities, government institutions and joint ventures on a wide variety of trade and finance transactions and has gained experience of many multi-jurisdictional transactions. Ben has been based within the region for over seven years, working throughout the various jurisdictions of the GCC and wider MENA region.

Before joining CMS, Ben qualified as a barrister-at-law and worked in the United Arab Emirates for and on behalf of a leading US-headquartered law firm.

Ben received his LLB from the University of Durham in 2000. He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2007.

With more than 450 energy and climate change lawyers, including over 100 partners, the CMS Energy and Climate Change practice is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Led from its centres of excellence such as London and Aberdeen, the practice works across 75 offices globally. Building on 40 years of experience advising on power, oil & gas and renewables through to energy disputes, emerging areas and Energy Transition, CMS is uniquely placed to ensure clients receive advice best suited to their commercial needs and to our collective future.

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Relevant experience

  • An Omani government entity in relation to Omani Royal Decree 60/2013 and its practical effect on introducing a number of amendments to the Omani Public Tender Law (Royal Decree 36/2008).
  • A large Omani construction company in relation to its tender submissions for a major infrastructure project in Oman.
  • A leading private equity entity in relation to its proposed acquisition of a minority stake in UAE-based university.
  • A US-company on the drafting and negotiation of an Omani agency agreement for the distribution of products throughout Oman.
  • An international drilling company on its corporate set up within the Sultanate of Oman and its on-going corporate governance and compliance obligations.
  • One of the largest global telecommunication companies in respect of its joint venture with Global Telecommunications Corporation (a Vietnamese state-owned enterprise) and GTEL TSC (a subsidiary of GTEL).
  • Setting-up and providing on-going legal advice to Delta Hydrocarbons B.V., the upstream oil and gas services company.
  • One of the largest global telecommunication companies in relation to its acquisition of a 90% stake in Sotelco for frequency licensing and mobile network rights in Cambodia.
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Education

  • 2007 – Solicitor, England and Wales
  • 2007 - Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, London, Uk
  • 2002 - The Inns of Court School of Law, London, UK
  • 2000 - Law, LLB (Hons), Durham University, Durham, UK
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8 August 2019
CMS sup­ports Pet­ro­gas on re­new­al of EPSA for Omani Block 5 li­cense
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised Ma­zo­on Pet­ro­gas SAOC (Pet­ro­gas), in re­la­tion to the re­new­al of its Ex­plor­a­tion & Pro­duc­tion Shar­ing Agree­ment (EPSA) for the on­shore Block 5 li­cense in north­west­ern...
12 May 2020
CMS Ex­pert Guide to the leg­al as­pect for com­pany dir­ect­ors & CEOs
Even be­fore the COV­ID-19 glob­al pan­dem­ic, dir­ect­ors of com­pan­ies were un­der great­er scru­tiny than ever, with in­creas­ing con­cerns be­ing ex­pressed over gov­ernance and even the fun­da­ment­al pur­pose of com­mer­cial...
16 June 2020
ROP De­cision re­moves NOC re­qurie­ments for ex­pat­ri­ate em­ploy­ees in Oman...
The Roy­al Oman Po­lice has re­cently an­nounced its de­cision (ROP De­cision 157/2020 Amend­ing some pro­vi­sions of the Im­ple­ment­ing Reg­u­la­tion of the For­eign­er­s' Res­id­ence Law (De­cision)) to re­move the re­quire­ment...
11 March 2019
CMS cel­eb­rates five suc­cess­ful years in Oman
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS is pleased to be cel­eb­rat­ing its five-year an­niversary in Oman, mark­ing half a dec­ade since the firm launched its of­fice in Mus­cat. To com­mem­or­ate this mile­stone, CMS will be...
17 April 2020
CMS Ex­pert Guide to coronavir­us re­lated loan morator­i­ums
As the COV­ID-19 out­break con­tin­ues to spread across the globe, gov­ern­ments and banks in many jur­is­dic­tions have in­tro­duced ex­traordin­ary meas­ures to al­le­vi­ate the fin­an­cial and eco­nom­ic im­pact of the...
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21 April 2020
Oman re­sponds to COV­ID-19 with eco­nom­ic stim­u­lus pack­age to bol­ster the...
Cor­rect as of 9am, 19th April. This art­icle is not be­ing main­tained. On 15th April 2020 the Su­preme Com­mit­tee for Cov­id-19 in the Sul­tan­ate of Oman is­sued a state­ment in re­la­tion to a com­pre­hens­ive eco­nom­ic...
Dec 2018
CMS Life Sci­ences & Health­care Sec­tor Group: An over­view of our Asia-Pa­cific,...
CMS has a truly glob­al Life Sci­ences & Health­care Sec­tor Group with over 300 law­yers and pat­ent at­tor­neys fo­cused on the sec­tor. Out­side of Europe, we are rap­idly grow­ing as a group and have teams in...
06 April 2020
CMS Ex­pert Guide to build­ing law and reg­u­la­tion dur­ing Cov­id-19
As the en­tire eco­nomy has been hit hard by the out­break of the COV­ID-19, also the con­struc­tion in­dustry is cur­rently fa­cing dra­mat­ic and dis­rupt­ive chal­lenges re­gard­ing fin­an­cial pres­sure, la­bour short­ages...
24 March 2020
The Cent­ral Bank of Oman’s re­sponse to COV­ID-19
Cor­rect as of 9am on 24th March 2020 and is not be­ing main­tained. Like many oth­er coun­tries through­out the world, the Gov­ern­ment of Oman has re­cently an­nounced a series of meas­ures de­signed to al­le­vi­ate...
5 December 2018
CMS Oman sees first class gradu­ate with be­spoke law pro­gramme
CMS Oman has re­cently seen the first class of stu­dents gradu­ate with a Dip­loma in Pro­fes­sion­al Skills for In­ter­na­tion­al Law­yers, a com­pre­hens­ive pro­gramme the of­fice helped de­signed to equip train­ees...
27 March 2020
CMS Ex­pert Guide to the law and reg­u­la­tion of force ma­jeure
COV­ID-19, known as coronavir­us, is dom­in­at­ing glob­al news and every­day life has changed im­meas­ur­ably in re­cent weeks with some coun­tries ex­per­i­en­cing com­plete lock-downs and closed bor­ders. This has caused...
21 November 2019
Pro­tec­tions for Minor­ity Share­hold­ers un­der the New Com­mer­cial Com­pan­ies...
Minor­ity share­hold­ers (i.e. those with less than 50% of the share­hold­ing)  have cer­tain leg­al rights un­der Oman’s new Com­mer­cial Com­pan­ies Law (Roy­al De­cree 18/2019) (the “CCL”) and these should...