EKP in association with Squire Sanders & Dempsey has established offices in Beirut and Riyadh (where it works under the appellation EK Partners & Al-Enezee Legal Counsel). EKP offers a wide range of strategic solution-driven legal support covering the Middle East region.
EKP is constituted of a diverse mix of Arab-Western-trained attorneys who have closely worked with western lawyers on a wide range of transactions in the Middle East region. By combining their western education and training with their in-depth understanding of the local legal regimes and culture and the practicalities of doing business in the Middle East, they are uniquely positioned to provide clients with high quality legal services tailored to their particular needs and characteristics of their local jurisdiction.
Through its strong relationship with the international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP and its developed regional network, EKP has become a centralized venue for local clients doing business in the ME and 41 other cities around the world, and has grown into the address of quality services for international clients investing in or expanding activities to the Middle East.
EKP lawyers have handled matters throughout the Middle East and North Africa region, including in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen, and covering a broad range of practice areas, including those involving corporate law and governance, cross-border strategic transactions, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, project finance, private equity, banking, securities (IPOs, private placements, investment funds and Islamic finance), construction, real estate, hospitality, administrative, regulatory, health care, telecommunications, intellectual property, energy, environmental, insurance, labor and employment, international trade, taxation, litigation and dispute resolution, government restructuring and privatization. The firm's extensive corporate practice advises on the full range of commercial law issues and planning, including corporate structuring, re-structuring, governance, and other corporate services for both domestic and international clients.
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EKP is associated to the International law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP as part of its independent network firm. Squire Sanders has offices in:
Cincinnati · Cleveland · Columbus · Houston · Los Angeles · Miami · New York · Palo Alto · Phoenix · San Francisco · Tallahassee · Tampa · Tysons Corner · Washington DC · West Palm Beach | Bogotá+ · Buenos Aires+ · Caracas · La Paz+ · Lima+ · Panamá+ · Rio de Janeiro · Santiago+ · Santo Domingo · São Paulo | Bratislava · Brussels · Bucharest+ · Budapest · Dublin+ · Frankfurt · Kyiv · London · Moscow · Prague · Warsaw | Beijing · Hong Kong · Shanghai · Tokyo | +Independent network firm.
For individual addresses please refer to www.ssd.com.
Law Firm Affiliations: EKP is associated to the international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. (SSD) as part of its independent network firm.
Among the strongest global law firms, SSD has lawyers in 41 offices worldwide admitted to practice in more than 140 courts and jurisdictions worldwide.
EKP provides through this unique partnership an unmatched breadth of sophisticated and integrated legal representation supporting regional clients virtually anywhere in the world. This combination brings clients the added value of local presence and expertise, a combined international network, and global reach to achieve their strategic objectives.
Representative Clients: We represent a diverse mix of regional and international clients from Fortune 100 clients to privately held enterprises, and from emerging companies to mature conglomerates, as well as public entities and governmental bodies.