Hogan Lovells

The energy and natural resource industry is dynamic, diverse, and global in scale. Companies in this sector demand comprehensive and creative legal solutions. The energy and natural resources group at Hogan Lovells works with major energy companies, natural resource developers, financial institutions, investment funds, and governments and their agencies.

Whether you have a complex transaction, energy project to finance, natural resource to develop, regulation to navigate, dispute to resolve, or intellectual property to protect, we will work as part of your team to solve your toughest legal issues. We understand that markets, technology, and regulation are major business drivers in the energy and natural resources sector.

Our network of over 400 energy lawyers spans Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. We think and act both locally and globally. We use our knowledge of local markets and our familiarity with international best practices to bring you practical solutions that can be implemented wherever your business takes you.

Deloitte

People and culture make Deloitte a great place to work. Each person is unique and valued for that, among the best and brightest in the business, and takes pride in his or her achievements and the success of others. The culture is about inclusion, collaboration, high performance, and opportunity.

AIG

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading international insurance organisation serving customers in more than 100 countries and jurisdictions. AIG is a forward looking company, providing comprehensive services to commercial, institutional, and individual customers through one of the most extensive worldwide property-casualty networks of any insurer. We are constantly improving our products and services, because the risks and exposures facing our clients are changing all the time.

AIG has been assisting buyers and sellers to close over 2,000 deals globally since the late 1990s and is a leading provider of transactional insurance products worldwide, including: Warranty and Indemnity Insurance (“W&I”), Contingent Liability, Litigation Buyout and Tax Liability Insurance.

We have a wide and deep appetite, along with extensive experience in private equity and industrial deals, both in Western European and emerging markets, and multinational M&A transactions. Our EMEA M&A teams are based in Frankfurt (for Germany, Austria and Switzerland), London, Madrid, Stockholm, and Paris, with international capabilities in the US and Asia Pacific.

AON

Aon plc (NYSE:AON) is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.

Baker McKenzie

Founded in 1949, Baker & McKenzie advises many of the world’s most dynamic and successful business organizations through more than 11,000 people in 77 offices in 47 countries. The firm is known for its global perspective, deep understanding of the local language and culture of business, uncompromising commitment to excellence, and world-class fluency in its client service.Baker & McKenzie has been active in the MENA region since the mid-1970s. In that time, the firm has established a substantial presence, first with an associated office in Riyadh in 1980, then Cairo (1985), Bahrain (1998), Abu Dhabi (2009), Doha, Istanbul (both 2011) Casablanca (2012), Dubai (2013) and Jeddah (2014).We have over 30 partners and 130 associates who operate as an integrated team in the region, often with colleagues from Baker & McKenzie offices worldwide. Our approach eliminates logistical issues when coordinating international and local counsel, resulting in less duplication, greater efficiency, lower cost and a higher level of service. We provide clients with a full range of services, including corporate/M&A, commercial, capital markets (debt and equity), and banking and finance (including Islamic finance) and dispute resolution matters. Many of our lawyers are fluent Arabic speakers and are qualified to practice in the UK, US and Middle East. We work readily with both English and Arabic documentation in handling all aspects of a transaction.

EY

EY’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) practice has been operating in the region since 1923, and our longevity in the region gives us a deep understanding of business in this part of the world.We are the largest professional services provider in MENA, with over 5000 people united across 20 offices and 15 countries, sharing the same values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.About EY’s Transaction Advisory ServicesHow organizations manage their capital agenda today will define their competitive position tomorrow. We work with our clients to help them make better and more informed decisions about how they strategically manage capital and transactions in a changing world. With more than 90 years of experience in the MENA region; our locally based team have the right mix of both technical skills and commercial execution to really make a difference to our clients capital agenda.Whether you're preserving, optimizing, raising or investing capital, EY’s Transaction Advisory Services bring together a unique combination of skills, insight and experience to deliver tailored advice attuned to your needs.Our goal is to help you achieve your best capital performance, deliver value to your stakeholders and meet your strategic corporate objectives.

PWC

At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. It is this focus which informs the services we provide and the decisions we make.

Demonstrating genuine leadership is more important to us than size or short term revenue growth. To achieve our aim to be recognised as the ‘the leading professional services firm’ we must be innovative, responsible and attract outstanding people.

Our strategy is therefore built around five priorities:

1. be technology enabled;
2. deliver exceptional value to our clients;
3. empower our people;
4. lead by example;
5. invest in sustainable growth.

Attracting the right talent continues to be paramount and as a progressive employer we will continue to develop a diverse and agile workforce.

Wolf Theiss

Wolf Theiss is one of the leading law firms in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CEE/SEE). We have built our reputation on a combination of unrivalled local knowledge and strong international capability. We opened our first office in Vienna 60 years ago. Our team now brings together over 340 lawyers from a diverse range of backgrounds, working in offices in 13 countries throughout the CEE/SEE region.

Over 80% of our work involves cross-border representation of international clients. Our full range of services covers: Banking & Finance; Business Crime; Capital Markets; Competition & Antitrust; Compliance; Corporate/ Mergers & Acquisitions; Dispute Resolution; Employment Law; Energy & Renewables; Infrastructure; Intellectual Property & Information Technology; International Arbitration; Investment Funds; Life Science; Real Estate & Construction; Regulatory & Procurement; Retail and Tax.

UniCredit

UniCredit is a simple, pan-European commercial bank providing unique access to Western, Central and Eastern Europe with an unrivalled strategic presence in 14 European core markets and an International Network spanning another 16 countries worldwide. UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking is fully plugged into UniCredit Group and serves 1,500 multinational corporates and key financial institutions and supports the Group’s corporate banking units in delivering services to 600,000 corporate and public sector clients. Furthermore, we deliver investment solutions for UniCredit’s retail and private banking clients. At home throughout Europe, we are the partner of choice for our clients’ increasingly sophisticated demand for Corporate Banking and Transaction Services, Structured Finance, Capital Markets and Investment Products. We offer local expertise as well as international reach and accompany our clients globally. We are a leading corporate lender and underwriter in Europe with over EUR 300 billion outstanding. As a leader in debt and trade finance, we consistently rank in the top three positions in league tables for combined loans and bonds in Euros and are recognized as a Trade Finance Powerhouse in Western, Central and Eastern Europe..

Pepper Hamilton

Pepper Hamilton LLP is a multi-practice law firm with more than 425 lawyers nationally. Founded in 1890, the firm provides corporate, litigation and regulatory legal services to leading businesses, governmental entities, nonprofit organizations and individuals throughout the nation and the world. The Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper is committed to providing its clients with clear, imaginative, and practical advice in connection with all types of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnering arrangements, restructurings and reorganizations, and public and private securities offerings, venture capital and other financing transactions. Our lawyers advise clients in connection with in-bound and out-bound software licensing transactions, technology development agreements, content licensing agreements, digital rights management, participation in standards organizations, and open source policies, among others. Visit us at Pepperlaw.com.

McDermott Will & Emery

McDermott Will & Emery is an international law firm with recognized strength in tax, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, health care, high-stakes litigation, and many other key areas of transactional and regulatory law. We emphasize and foster long-term, industry-focused client relationships with multinational companies, rising entrepreneurial firms, investors and capital providers, and many of the world’s wealthiest families and individuals.

McDermott has a long history of social responsibility and supporting the communities in which our people live and work. We believe it is our obligation to embrace our communities and promote their well being through pro bono work, community service, charitable giving, environmental stewardship and promoting diversity.

Donnelley Financial Solutions

Donnelley Financial Solutions provides software and services that enable clients to communicate with confidence in a complex regulatory environment. With 3,500 employees in 61 locations across 18 countries, we provide thousands of clients globally with innovative tools for content creation, management and distribution, as well as data analytics and multi-lingual translations services. Leveraging advanced technology, deep-domain expertise and 24/7 support, we deliver cost effective solutions to meet the evolving needs of our clients. Venue offers a full suite of Deal Solutions built around the core of our best-in-class Virtual Data Room to provide the most comprehensive slate of services in the industry to improve every stage of every deal. We offer our clients the highest level of service and access to the most cutting edge technology, to streamline your entire deal process.

iDeals Solutions

iDeals™ Solutions, operating since 2008 is an innovative technology provider of critical confidential information and document exchange solutions within and outside of corporate firewall.We work with many Fortune 500 and blue chip organisations to securely share content and collaborate anytime, anywhere without the need for third party plugins on multiple delivery platforms.Today we support strategic collaboration solutions for a wide range of sectors, including financial services, life sciences, technology, and manufacturing. More than 500,000 professionals use our solutions to support and execute mergers and acquisitions from pre-deal document preparation to post merger integration, as well as Board Reporting, Clinical Trials and Corporate Repositories.Our flagship product is the iDeals™ Virtual Data Room, a next-generation application that is utilised by many diversified organisations and leading advisers in over 30 countries around the world.

Standard Bank

Standard Bank, also trading as Stanbic Bank, is Africa's biggest Bank by assets and earnings with a presence in 20 African countries and other key markets globally. The Group has been at the forefront of South Africa's financial system for over150 years and has successfully expanded across Africa and other key emerging markets while strengthening its specialist product teams and global distribution capability.Our outstanding coverage and capabilities enable trade and investment flows between emerging markets and the continent and help connect our clients to opportunities which serve their business objectives.Our core differentiator is connecting our clients to Africa, by providing African insight as well as product capability and solutions to our clients' needs in dealing with Africa.The Group offers Retail, Business and Corporate & Investment Banking services, having a network of over 1000 branches across the African continent.Our office in Dubai has been established since 1997 servicing our clients in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It is an investment banking origination platform acting as a gateway for cross border initiatives between the MENA region and Africa as well as other core emerging markets for Standard Bank. Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (Dubai Branch) is regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority.

Instinctif

Instinctif Partners is an International Business Communications Consultancy employing 450 people in 20 offices across 10 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North America. Our Middle East operation is headquartered in Dubai.

We combine strategic and creative thinking to help our clients engage with and influence their key stakeholders. We understand the power of reputation in a world where reputations are vulnerable. We connect financial communications to corporate affairs, public policy and employee engagement. With the very best in creativity, story-telling and digital capability, we help our clients develop an integrated story.

Truly international in outlook and reach, we are as connected to our clients and their audiences as we are to each other. Our clients want an agile partner that can move as fast as their businesses do and help plan for different scenarios and outcomes. We know which tactics and strategies will get results and we are not afraid to break new ground.

We connect specialists from across multiple areas to drive results for our clients:

• Capital Markets
• Corporate Affairs
• Public Policy
• Engagement
• Life Sciences
• Content & Creative
• Insight & Research

In 2017, our work was recognised by industry peers at the PRCA MENA Awards, at which we were awarded “Best Crisis Campaign of the Year”. The global business is backed by funds managed by Vitruvian Partners LLP, an independent private equity firm specializing in middle market buyouts, growth buyouts and growth capital investments in the United Kingdom and Northern Europe.

Hogan Lovells

The energy and natural resource industry is dynamic, diverse, and global in scale. Companies in this sector demand comprehensive and creative legal solutions. The energy and natural resources group at Hogan Lovells works with major energy companies, natural resource developers, financial institutions, investment funds, and governments and their agencies.

Whether you have a complex transaction, energy project to finance, natural resource to develop, regulation to navigate, dispute to resolve, or intellectual property to protect, we will work as part of your team to solve your toughest legal issues. We understand that markets, technology, and regulation are major business drivers in the energy and natural resources sector.

Our network of over 400 energy lawyers spans Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. We think and act both locally and globally. We use our knowledge of local markets and our familiarity with international best practices to bring you practical solutions that can be implemented wherever your business takes you.

Deloitte

People and culture make Deloitte a great place to work. Each person is unique and valued for that, among the best and brightest in the business, and takes pride in his or her achievements and the success of others. The culture is about inclusion, collaboration, high performance, and opportunity.