The Corporate Group advises clients on matters including Venture Capital and Private Equity; Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances; Restructurings and Reorganizations; and Corporate Governance on a broad range of high-profile GCC based and international, cross-border transactions.
HLG prides itself for being at the forefront of Infrastructure Projects, including PPP/PFI projects in the MENA/GCC region, most notably, the State of Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Jordan.
The firm’s team took part in various Islamic and conventional finance transactions within various jurisdictions. Our lawyers have worked on some of the very first Islamic Finance transactions by major institutions in the City of London (dating back to early 90s) and were involved in many ground-breaking Islamic finance projects emanating from the GCC and worldwide.
"In many ways, fintech is the new mainstream financial services as demarcation lines between traditional providers and tech-enabled businesses become increasingly blurred"- Mr. Ashley Freeman.
We advise clients on a wide variety of telecommunications transactional matters, from mergers and acquisitions to service agreements and equipment contracts. We have counseled clients on a variety of telecommunications service and infrastructure companies.
Data protection is an issue for most businesses as many countries now strictly stipulate how businesses are able to collect, record, exchange data and safeguard its usage.
The prevention of financial crime is a topic frequently encountered by all lawyers, especially those working in the financial services sector. Some of our lawyers have lengthy experience of working in banking and financial regulation and they know not just how these issues arise (and how to tackle them) but also managing the expectations of the regulatory authorities in terms of policy formation, monitoring and verification systems and overall corporate compliance.
The team works with leading regional alternative energy technology services and solution providers and seek to offer clients strategies to adopt corporate governance best practices and risk mitigation, guidance and implementation of sustainability programs and sustainability investment strategies for financial institutions