Middle East | McLarty Associates

In the Middle East and Arabian Gulf, McLarty Associates sees a particularly inviting and challenging business landscape for our clients. Our longtime experience on the ground enables us to engage directly with ministers, members of ruling families, and key opinion- and decisionmakers to solve clients’ problems, promote investments and compete for contracts, privatizations and other business opportunities.

Among our successes: a European client winning a competitive industrial privatization process in Egypt, a U.S. agribusiness company being welcomed and supported to develop a nearly $1 billion manufacturing facility, finding productive ways for a global information technology company to address censorship and content problems with various Middle East governments, and helping major Hollywood studios navigate subject matter, immigration, export control and other sensitivities to make movies in Middle East locations.

Our Middle East & Arabian Gulf team:

John D. Negroponte, our vice-chairman, previously served as deputy secretary of state, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, and director of national intelligence.
Richard Klein has led the firm’s work in the Middle East and Arabian Gulf region for over five years, following a career working on security and commercial issues at the Departments of State and Commerce.
Ali H. Tulbah, who traces his heritage across the Middle East, previously served under President Bush in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs, as liaison to Arab and Muslim communities, and on the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad.
Nabil Fahmy has served as ambassador of Egypt to the United States, as Egypt’s ambassador to Japan, and as political advisor to the foreign minister. He is the founding dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo.