Overview
The multi-nation region known as MENA (Middle East and North Africa) contains some of the fastest-growing economies in the world. While headlines might focus on unrest, businesses around the world increasingly flock to MENA for its oil and gas reserves, its technological prowess, its real estate opportunities, and its growing dominance in health care, retail, financial services, and even renewable energy.
This growth, across so many industries, has fostered a range of legal matters for Alston & Bird’s clients. In the world of technology, these matters have ranged from IP and finance to regulatory compliance and antitrust. In other industries, in countries such as the UAE, we’ve worked with clients on matters of insolvency, white collar crime, tax planning, restructuring, employment, and securities litigation. We’ve helped guide you through the intricacies of such EU resolutions as GDPR and such U.S. regulations as the American Disabilities Act and have worked with you to manage sanctions as well as other international legal and political issues. We’ve helped you with M&A activity and with both internal and external investigations.
And whether you’re a MENA-based company looking to do business in the United States or a U.S. company interested in tapping into MENA’s wealth of business opportunities, our multidisciplinary and international experience in all markets equips us to offer you unparalleled experience, anywhere in the region, anywhere in the world.