Practice Areas
Our Services
Four integrated practices. One firm. Focused entirely on the Middle East and Africa.
Our legal practice covers the full range of commercial and regulatory matters that businesses encounter in the Middle East. We advise on corporate governance, compliance frameworks, M&A structuring, contract negotiation, and dispute resolution — with particular depth in Egyptian and GCC law.
We do not hand clients off to local counsel and step back. We stay involved through every stage, working alongside our clients and their advisors to ensure that the legal work advances their commercial objectives.
Areas of focus
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Mergers, acquisitions & joint ventures
- Contract drafting & negotiation
- Regulatory submissions & approvals
- Commercial dispute resolution
- Investment structuring
Entering a MENA market involves decisions that are simultaneously legal, commercial, and political. The right corporate structure in Egypt is not the same as the right structure in the UAE or Saudi Arabia. Regulatory timelines vary. Government engagement is sometimes mandatory, sometimes strategic, and always consequential.
MEASA advises clients on how to approach a new market with confidence — what to set up, where to establish it, how to engage government counterparties, and how to manage the risks that come with operating in a new jurisdiction for the first time.
Areas of focus
- Market entry structuring
- Jurisdiction selection & analysis
- Free zone & onshore establishment
- Government engagement strategy
- Risk assessment & mitigation
- Long-term operational advisory
In the Middle East, the relationship between business and government is closer, more transactional, and more determinative of outcomes than in most other regions. Regulatory approvals, concessions, licences, and tenders are all influenced by relationships maintained over time with the right officials.
MEASA's advisors have spent years building those relationships across the region's governments, ministries, and regulatory bodies. We help clients engage government counterparties appropriately, navigate political transitions, and use those relationships at moments that genuinely count.
Areas of focus
- Ministerial & regulatory engagement
- Government relations programmes
- Licence & concession advisory
- Political risk monitoring
- Stakeholder mapping & management
- Crisis government relations
In MENA markets, an organisation's reputation with regulators, officials, and the public is a legal and commercial asset — or a liability. A company that is perceived poorly by the relevant ministry will find its applications reviewed more slowly, its submissions challenged more aggressively, and its operational environment less forgiving.
MEASA's communications work is grounded in that reality. We advise on how organisations present themselves to the audiences that matter most in the region — not as a reputational exercise, but as a practical legal and commercial one.
Areas of focus
- Regulatory reputation advisory
- Stakeholder communications strategy
- Crisis communications
- Media & government positioning
- Arabic-language communications
- ESG & sustainability messaging
Sectors
Industries We Serve
Technology
Licensing, data compliance, and the government engagement that technology companies increasingly cannot avoid in MENA markets.
Energy & Oil and Gas
Upstream and downstream oil and gas advisory, energy licensing, and regulatory compliance for one of the region's most strategically significant sectors.
Mining & Resources
Resource concessions, extraction agreements, and investment structuring for mining operations across North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
Startups & Venture Growth
Corporate structuring, investor agreements, and the regulatory groundwork for companies expanding into the region for the first time.
Logistics & Maritime
Licensing, government relations, and the operational compliance that keeps goods moving and operations running.
Free Zones & Investment
Free zone establishment, investment incentive advisory, and the structuring decisions that shape long-term tax and operational outcomes.
Retain Legal Counsel
for the MENA Region
Most international firms understand their home jurisdiction. MEASA understands the Middle East. If you are doing business in the region — or planning to — we should talk.