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DLA Piper

DLA Piper is one of the world's largest legal services organisations with over 3400 lawyers across 64 offices in 25 countries worldwide.

Voted "Global Law Firm of the Year" (The Lawyer Awards 2006), DLA Piper provides the full range of relationship-driven, international quality legal services required by local, regional and multinational companies investing into or outside of the Middle East region.

Our regulatory and government affairs group in the Middle East is led by a specialist regulatory partner with over a decade of experience in financial, energy, environmental, competition, and healthcare regulation. Members of the group bring knowledge and experience of best practices from a number of regions and have worked in a number of jurisdictions. The team is especially well placed to lobby and advise due to bilingual English and Arabic speaking lawyers essential for this area of work.

The regulatory and government affairs group's work includes advising multinational companies and governments in relation to a broad range of issues including cross border mergers and acquisitions, new licence applications, new product development, listing issues and ongoing regulatory compliance in the UAE, the GCC and wider Middle East. In particular we advise clients on the rules of, and liaising on behalf of clients with, Government Ministries, Civil Aviation Authorities and other State Agencies across jurisdictions including the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and also Tunisia, Algeria, Turkey and Pakistan.