Alfahad and Partners is an entrepreneurial and a full-service Kuwaiti law firm with international extent and a focus on growth-oriented businesses. We provide first class, efficient, effective solutions and integrated legal services. Our experience and knowledge of our clients’ businesses and industries also enable our firm to serve as trusted advisors to founders, investors, directors, and management.
Dr Faisal Alfahad, a highly accomplished lawyer, leading corporate, and tax figure who has served in many high-profile capacities in the State of Kuwait government and other prominent organizations. The law firm has grown and aiming to become one of the best law firms in Kuwait based on our client’s testimony and offering clients a compelling choice without any sacrifice in quality when compared to larger law firms.
Fundamental to our firm’s growth has been our commitment to providing transactional value through efficient, effective problem solving backed by high quality legal services. With our in-depth knowledge of local law and practice and our broad network, we are not only a trusted legal partner for our clients, but we can also assist our clients in finding the right and most effective solution for the issues faced in their business.
The firm’s corporate department serves some of the main companies in Kuwait, including advising one of the leading investment companies on the largest initial public offering (IPO) in the country’s history for Boursa Kuwait.
Our corporate practice with a vast team of bilingual attorneys, assisting businesses and individuals in a wide range of industry sectors, including but not limited assisting local and offshore corporations, advises foreign investors setting up operations in Kuwait and in Kuwait’s free trade zones.
Adhering to stringent international practices and high ethical standards, our team provides guidance across all facets of law – including corporate issues, breach of contracts, employment, infrastructure investment, licensing, labor, banking and finance, dispute resolution, intellectual property, securities, oil and gas, capital markets, and taxation.
Alfahad and Partners has a tradition of community service and providing pro bono legal services to people and organizations in the State of Kuwait. The firm’s leadership encourages all employees to get involved in the community and contribute in whatever way each feels most appropriate.
Alfahad and Partners aims to assist foreign and domestic investors accomplish economic wealth in the State of Kuwait and keep our law firm at the forefront of developments and government policy so that we can advise our clients on the current law and policy. To achieve that, our law firm listed by Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA) as one of the qualified consultancy companies and officers to submit applications on behalf of foreign investors in Kuwait.
GLA & Company is a regional MENA-based law firm with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Kuwait, Cairo and Beirut. It provides strategic, cost-effective and forward-thinking legal representation for companies seeking to do business in the Middle East. The firm boasts a diverse portfolio of clients, ranging from start-ups to global enterprises doing business in the Middle East. GLA’s practice consists of a full-service law firm that handles everything from simple advisory work to complex contentious and non-contentious matters. With extensive experience advising clients in the key Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE – as well as in Egypt and Lebanon – the firm offers unique insights for companies seeking quality legal services. Data protection and privacy, in particular, is a key focus area for the firm, considering the expansion and revamping of applicable laws and regulations across the GCC.
GLA & Company is headed up by Nader Al Awadhi, Senior Partner, and Alex Saleh, Managing Partner. As a founding partner, Nader Al-Awadhi has over 44 years of legal experience. Nader Al Awadhi’s reputation in the Kuwait legal profession is well-known. He has developed a strong forte for commercial and corporate litigation matters representing many of the top Kuwaiti companies and institutions as well as many famous international companies.
Alex Saleh is the Managing Partner of GLA & Company and takes a leading regional role within the firm with respect to its M&A and Private Equity practice. With over 25 years of experience in both the GCC markets as well as the US, he has accumulated sizable expertise in the areas of banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions, capital market deals and infrastructure projects. His experience garners praise from the leading legal directories as he is annually awarded “Market Leader” by the IFLR1000, “Band One” by Chambers & Partners and “Leading Individual” by Legal 500. Alex’s transactions regularly win Deals of the Year by the same institutions and organizations.
With Offices Throughout the Region, Our Firm Represents Companies in the Middle East and Worldwide
At GLA & Company, we provide strategic, cost-effective, and forward-thinking legal representation for companies seeking to do business in the Middle East. We also represent MENA startups and established companies doing business locally and abroad.
Our practice encompasses all of the legal issues companies will likely encounter in the global business environment. With extensive experience advising clients in the key Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE) plus Egypt and Lebanon, we offer unique insights for companies seeking to establish or expand business operations in these nations. From advising on various aspects of doing business in the region, engaging in simple or complex transactions, assisting with local regulatory disclosures with various competition or anti-trust authorities, or resolving disputes (local or arbitral), our attorneys are well-equipped to provide current, concise and timely representation to all types of clients.
We Work With Companies and Their International Counsel
We work with many of our clients directly. This includes clients located in the Middle East and in other regions worldwide in a diverse array of industries. But we also work with companies’ international law firm counsel in many instances. If your firm has a client with interests in the Middle East, GLA & Co attorneys can either shoulder the load or work alongside your firm’s attorneys to meet your client’s needs in a timely and cost-effective manner.
We Provide a Full Suite of Necessary Legal Services for Global Companies
We have structured our firm to serve as full-service outside counsel to multi-national companies seeking to do business in the Middle East and regional companies ranging from high-tech startups to established real estate developers, financial institutions, and retailers. This is illustrated by our practice areas, which include:
We Offer Unique Perspectives on Doing Business in the Middle East
As a result of our attorneys’ decades of local experience, we offer unique perspectives on doing business in the Middle East. Not only are our attorneys intimately familiar with the legal and regulatory issues, but they are knowledgeable about local and regional customs as well. As a result, our attorneys can help our clients avoid costly—and potentially embarrassing—mistakes while fully addressing their legal needs.
We are Different from Our Competitors
As a boutique law firm with the resources and talent of much larger firms, we stand out from our competitors. We offer custom-tailored, one-on-one legal representation at reasonable rates, and our attorneys take a personal interest in ensuring that our clients have every available opportunity to succeed. Moreover, what sets GLA & Co apart is our unparalleled combination of international and local expertise. GLA & Co combines the best and brightest regional international advisors with local experts who often hold an established and respected relationship with many key regulatory authorities, allowing us to provide the best advice and representation in a timely manner.
ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners is Kuwait’s leading tier one corporate law firm, with a strong network of contacts throughout the MENA region. The firm has a leading commercial practice with a focus on corporate and commercial transactions, banking and finance, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, privatizations, IPOs, franchising, construction, government projects, PPPs, securities, taxation, commercial litigation and arbitration.
ASAR specializes in over 30 practice areas and represent clients that require a coordinated and seamless response to their legal needs. ASAR’s legal expertise extends to a wide range of areas that covers local and foreign multinational corporations, financial institutions, industrial conglomerates, governments and private clients.
The firm has over 30 years’ experience in Kuwait and over 15 in Bahrain and is regularly retained by leading international law firms to provide specialist local legal advice in various projects and assignments. ASAR’s clients include a number of significant public and private-sector Kuwaiti entities and institutions, major US and UK, European, and Asian companies and organizations doing business in Kuwait and the wider GCC region. The firm also has a very strong private clients & family office practice which advises and represents ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices.
ASAR has offices in both Kuwait and Bahrain and has strong ties to various law firms in more than 100 jurisdictions around the world.
Meysan was established in 2015 and has grown to become one of the largest and most sophisticated business law firms in Kuwait and the wider Middle East.
In recent years, Meysan has advised clients across a range of industry sectors on some of the most noteworthy and complex transactions and disputes in the region.
The firm sets itself apart by offering high quality, innovative legal advice delivered by a team of multilingual lawyers with 100 years of combined legal experience.
Meysan adopts a boutique approach to legal practice, limiting the number and type of matters undertaken, in order to ensure the highest quality offering for clients.
The firm maintains a lower partner-to-associate ratio than other firms in the region and takes on matters that require partner focus and experience, especially cross-border transactions and high-stakes litigation.
Clients include some of the largest regional blue-chip companies, multinational corporations, international financial institutions, sovereign governments, family groups, and high net worth individuals.
Over the past few years Meysan has received a number of important awards, among the recent honors include the awards for the Kuwait law firm of the year, litigation law firm of the year, and a transaction on which Meysan advised was named M&A Deal of the Year: the acquisition by DSV Panalpina of Agility’s Global Integrated Logistics Business. The $4.1 billion transaction represented the largest private M&A transaction in the GCC in 202.
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