MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA GROUP (MENA)


For more than a decade, we have focused on forging, strong, long-term relationships with our clients by assisting Middle Eastern companies, sovereign governments, prominent merchant families and individuals with a wide range of business transactions and disputes in the United States and other countries.


Staffed with experienced attorneys from the United Arab Emirates and the United States, our office in Abu Dhabi has become the “go to” law firm for multinational companies looking for expertise on all aspects of local law. Our Abu Dhabi office provides more than legal advice and consultations. Our firm’s familiarity with Arab law, culture, and language combines with intimate knowledge of U.S. and international law practices, to enable us to powerfully assist clients with a wide range of legal services across the globe.


We are experts at assisting U.S. and international companies in the greater Middle East with special expertise in the U.A.E. and Gulf region. We represent clients before the U.A.E. courts and arbitration panels as well as representing public companies, private corporate groups, and entrepreneurs in connection with:

  • Capital market transactions
  • Commercial agency matters and litigation (including international arbitration)
  • Corporate transactions
  • IP protection
  • Tax planning and securities law
  • Real estate
  • Venture capital and project finance


  • Strategic Alliance In Saudi Arabia

    We also have a strategic alliance with the Abdulnasir Al Sohaibani Law offices in Riyadh and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abdulnasir Al Sohaibani, the firm’s founder, has over twenty-five years of private experience and is one of the most respected lawyers in Saudi Arabia providing legal services with respect to commercial litigation, arbitration, insurance, corporate law, franchising, banking, taxation, labor law and Shari’a law.


    Key Contacts:

    Haig V. Kalbian

    James R Hagerty



    Business Matters

    •  Bankruptcy Law
    •  Business Law
    •  Employment Law

    Dispute Resolution

    •  Civil Litigation
    •  Arbitration & Mediation
    •  Product Liability

    Energy & Environmental Law

    Energy Law
    •  Environmental Conservation

    Finance & Taxation

    •  Corporate
    •  Estates and Trusts
    •  Islamic Finance
    •  Securities Law
    •  Taxation

    Industries & Investments

    •  Aviation Law and Finance
    Health Care Law
    •  Real Estate
    •  Restaurant & Hospitality Law

    International

    Foreign Sovereign Representation
    •  International Law
    Middle East/North Africa Group (MENA)

    Public Sector

    •  Gov't Affairs, Contracts & Public Policy
    •  Nonprofit Law