With an increasingly globalized world, declining oil prices and growing international competition, regional businesses are continuously diversifying, seeking new ways of doing business and becoming more sophisticated to meet fresh challenges, while MNC’s are looking at investing and expanding their local footprint in the Middle East and North Africa.
TechLegis has in the recent past expanded its footprint beyond GCC and undertaken assignments advising international Clients in the wider Middle East and Africa region especially with regard to Technology, Privacy, Cybersecurity regulation, Innovation advisory, Startup assistance and related issues. Capitalizing on the firm’s Managing Partner’s extensive on the ground experience working previously in Middle East (Dubai & Saudi Arabia) and the African continent (Egypt) the firm regularly advises Clients on local business and regulatory issues in collaboration with locally qualified professionals in the relevant jurisdiction.
TechLegis MENA Practice team advises clients on some of the most innovative and complex transactions in the region, providing clients with a full-service practice offering. With specialist focus on Privacy, Data Protection and the Technology, Media and Telcom. sectors, TechLegis offers expert regulatory and business advice across the corporate and commercial landscape in the MENA region. TechLegis AEMA/ GCC Practice Group is well equipped to provide a whole gamut of services with regard to various work streams of global conglomerates.
From its regional hub in Dubai- the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the MENA Practice team works closely with the firm’s global network of associate firms and individual regional experts to provide local and international clients with a single point of contact for advice and manages client transactions across the Middle East and wider AMEA region through business associates located in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
TechLegis’ MENA Practice team drafts and negotiates all types of commercial business documents, advice on complex technology transactions, many of which are market firsts, obtain licenses from regulators and advise on privacy/data protection, Cybersecurity regulation, Innovation advisory, Startup assistance and IP matters.
With a unique a combination of local associate professionals on the ground in the region and an internationally recognized team of experts clients get the best results as the team is familiar with the region’s languages, cultures, regulations and business processes and applies global best practices and market leading expertise to help clients with cross-border transactions, as well as on high-stake business deals.