Kuwait - based Global Investment House engaged in negogiations to sell its 51% stake in Oman's Al Jazeera Steel Products , sources close to the matter said.

The Kuwaiti bank, which bought the stake in 2007, has held discussions with regional investment firms interested in the business, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is confidential. The talks are ongoing and an agreement has yet to be reached, the people said. The stake is worth about $75 million based on Al Jazeera Steel's market value, according to data.

The lender has restructured $1.7 billion of debt twice in the past five years.

The company holds the stake in Al Jazeera Steel through its Global Buyout Fund. The spokesman said that the company does not need to sell assets to repay debt obligations.

Global, which was co-founded in 1998 by chairman Maha Khalid Al Ghunaim, reached an agreement to restructure $1.7 billion of debt in 2009. Two years later it again turned to creditors, seeking a 'more comprehensive' arrangement, it said at the time. It then withdrew from the Kuwaiti stock exchange and transferred investment assets to a special fund vehicle, which it manages for creditors.

Al Jazeera Steel, based in Sohar, makes steel tubes and structural products. The company exports to around 25 countries and reported a profit of OMR4.6 million ($12 million) in 2013, a rise of 33 per cent from the previous year.