The foreign-law distinction, #Egypt and the emirate edition | FT Alphaville #Qatar

"There’s one thing about how the Qataris have gone about protecting their $5.5bn or so lending in Egypt — and it’s a small thing, next to a coup d’etat, the swift exit of the chap they’d bet on, and a looming balance of payments crisis…

But it’s a familiar thing:

Whether by accident or design, this might be a Qatari datapoint for the foreign-law distinction."

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