Corporate Members
AAR Corp.
Since the 1950s, AAR has been a leading provider of aviation products and services supporting commercial airlines, national defense, homeland security and humanitarian aid efforts. As a publicly traded company, AAR is noted for our financial and leadership stability, strong customer focus, and innovative solutions.
AAR’s field-proven products transport troops and equipment into theaters of operations, sustain defense activity and provide real-time communications and situational awareness. AAR’s supply chain management, MRO and modification services keep advanced aircraft platforms and ground equipment mission ready and operating per design specifications. AAR also designs and fabricates a wide range of machined and composite structures for aerospace and defense applications.
AION Partners
AION Partners acts as principal and arranger of opportunistic real estate investments in the US and was founded by the principals who built the real estate investment and asset management company DCD America over the last decade. The AION team has a proven track record of creating value and managing risk through redeveloping, repositioning and managing assets in order to maximize returns to its investors.
The AION executive team's experience as hands-on operators with the ability to structure and execute complex capital markets transactions provides a competitive edge which will allow the company to take advantage of future pricing dislocations on hard assets and debt. Led by Siraj Dadabhoy, Michael Betancourt and Peter Smith, AION's executive team has extensive experience in property acquisition and management, capital raising, debt restructuring and foreclosure.
http://www.aionpartners.com
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, founded by Robert S. Strauss and Richard A. Gump in 1945, is one of the world's largest firms. Its growth has come by understanding client problems - and solving them with a strategic combination of legal, practical and political skills. As we proceed in a new millennium marked by dramatic advances in technology and the expansion of international business into new markets, the firm is well-positioned to provide legal services that meet the changing needs of our clients on a 24/7 basis. The company's vision is to address the array of legal challenges that clients may encounter in achieving their business goals. This vision has brought the firm depth, diversity and experience. And, it is still a first-generation firm. Those who built the firm continue to serve the clients that have grown with it.www.akingump.com
AM General
AM General a world leader in the design, engineering, production, and technical and parts support of military and special purpose vehicles.
The company's modern corporate offices are located in South Bend, Indiana, and its production facilities, among the most cutting-edge on earth, are located eight miles away in Mishawaka, Indiana.
AM General's commitment to quality begins and ends with the customer. The company's goal is to constantly increase the level of customer satisfaction in the products and services we provide. To achieve this goal, AM General has adopted the Total Quality Management philosophy.
www.amgeneral.com
Baker Botts
Since 1840, Baker Botts lawyers have delivered legal solutions, guidance and support for clients throughout the world. Combining the talents of approximately 750 lawyers in 13 offices worldwide, Baker Botts offers clients a vast pool of experience to serve specific needs and interests. The Firm’s experience in providing legal advice to clients in the Middle East predates the opening of their first office in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2001. In Riyadh, Baker Botts work in association with the Law Office of Mohanned bin Saud Al-Rasheed. The Firm expanded our Middle East presence in 2005 with the opening of an office in Dubai and enhanced their ability to assist clients by opening an office in Abu Dhabi in 2009. They are committed to this region and continue to expand their team, the breadth of its coverage, the depth of its skills and their geographic footprint.
The Cohen Group
The Cohen Group provides global business consulting services and advice on tactical and strategic opportunities in virtually every market. The firm has the unique ability to provide its clients with comprehensive tools for understanding and shaping their business, political, legal, regulatory, and media environments.The company's principals leverage centuries of combined decision-making and deal-making experience at the White House, the State Department, the Defense Department, and in Congress. The firm provides strategic intelligence and analysis to maximize its clients’ competitive advantage throughout government and industry.
The Cohen Group’s reach extends internationally where its principals have developed expertise and relationships with key political, economic and business leaders and have acquired valuable experience with the individuals and institutions that affect its clients’ success abroad.
www.cohengroup.net
DLA Piper
With more than 3,700 lawyers in 64 offices in 25 countries, DLA Piper helps companies around the world succeed by meeting their legal needs wherever they do business. The firm knows that, in order for its advice and solutions to be effective, it needs to engage completely with its clients to fully understand their businesses and their deeper legal needs. This means taking a long-term view and investing in relationships as well as in the firms own people, processes, and services.
DLA Piper's clients include local, national, and global companies across a wide range of sectors, ranging from emerging businesses to some of the leading national and multinational companies.
www.dlapiper.com
Edelman
Edelman is the world’s leading independent public relations firm, with more than 3,500 employees in 51 offices worldwide. Edelman is world-renown for their client-centric approach to business. With an independent mindset, Edelman executives deliver quality service to their diverse client base.
Edelman is actively working to make public relations the lead discipline in the communications mix, with a strong view that public relations has the unique immediacy and transparency to build lasting credibility and trust.
Edelman was named PRWeek’s “2009 Agency of the Year,” PRWeek’s “Large PR Agency of the Year” (three times in the last four years), and Holmes Report’s “2008 Global Agency of the Year”; and was listed as a top-10 firm by Advertising Age in 2008 and 2007. In 2007, CEO Richard Edelman was honored as “Agency Executive of the Year” by Advertising Age, and he was cited in 2007 and 2008 as “Most Powerful PR Executive” by PRWeek.
www.edelman.com
Fremont Group
Fremont Group is an international private equity and business development firm with over three decades of experience initiating cross-border mergers and acquisitions, technical collaborations and manufacturing joint ventures in the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Europe. Fremont Group is actively involved with defense and aerospace companies in designing, developing and implementing offset solutions in several countries including India, Netherlands, Kuwait, and the U.A.E. Fremont has generated over one billion dollars in offset credit for its clients.
FTR International
FTR International Inc. is a highly innovative and competitively driven general contracting, engineering, and construction management firm that has successively proven its exceptional ethic and comprehensive range in over $1 billion worth of total construction costs since its initiation in 1984. The Irvine, California based corporation has prided itself in maintaining a diverse portfolio of public works and private projects relating to state-of-the-art science laboratories, health centers, educational institutions, art and theatre facilities, ultra-modern mass transit stations, port security services, complex water reclamations, environmental sewage treatment facilities, and electrical power distribution centers.
http://www.ftrintl.com
Future Pipe Industries Group
Future Pipe Industries Group (FPI) is the global leader in the large diameter fiberglass pipe industry, developing, manufacturing and supplying fiberglass pipe systems for customers in over 50 countries. Headquartered in Dubai, FPI’s operations include 10 factories and a global network of sales offices serving customers and end users in a wide variety of sectors including the Oil & Gas, Infrastructure & Municipal, Water Distribution, Desalination & Power, Petrochemical and Industrial markets.FPI was established in 1984 when Mr. Fouad Makhzoumi acquired a stake in Gulf Eternit industries, the first company in the FPI Group. Over the past 25 years, the group has transformed from a local manufacturer into the global leader in the large diameter fiberglass pipe industry.
As manufacturers of the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of fiberglass pipe systems, FPI has successfully promoted fiberglass as a strong substitute to pipe systems based on traditional materials.
www.futurepipe.com
Gettys
Established in 1988, Gettys is an award-winning design and procurement firm based in Chicago with offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, Irvine, Calif., Miami, and New York. Work across North America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Middle East has earned Gettys a reputation as one of the finest hospitality design and procurement firms in the world.www.gettys.com
The Harbour Group
The Harbour Group is a boutique public relations firm based in Washington, D.C. The Harbour Group focuses on three practice areas: issues management, public relations, and crisis communications, and has quickly built a reputation for smart, strategic thinking and flawless execution. The Harbour Group provides the broad expertise and strategic thinking that clients expect, complemented by the personalized approach and attention that clients seek. Focusing first on the goals of its clients, our firm's experts design innovative communications strategies to protect and promote the client’s business objectives. The Harbour Group's remarkable expertise – combined with unprecedented energy and drive – ensures that it delivers results.
http://www.harbourgrp.com
Herzog Contracting Corp.
Herzog is a premier developer, builder, contractor, and provider of state of the art railroad construction equipment, maintenance of way equipment, and railway passenger transportation operations. Herzog provides turnkey services for their innovative PLUS train ballast distribution system, continuous welded rail transportation and uploading with the Rail Unloading Machine, Multi-Purpose Machine, Ultrasonic Rail Flaw Detection, maintenance of way material handling, turnkey operation and maintenance for locomotive, and rolling stock maintenance. Herzog also provides construction management for the development of freight and passenger rail projects. Herzog uses the latest technology to provide operation and maintenance for the most modern fleet equipment.
http://www.herzogcompanies.com/
Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins is a full-service international law firm with more than 2,000 lawyers in 30 offices around the world. The founders of Latham & Watkins instilled an ethic of hard work, commitment and quality that flourishes today and has nurtured the firm’s dramatic growth into one of the world’s premier business law firms servicing clients across a wide spectrum of transactional, corporate, litigation and regulatory areas.
Staffed with more than 50 lawyers, our four Middle East offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha and Riyadh have been advising some of the most active strategic and financial dealmakers in the region for more than 15 years. Our Middle East practice combines regional knowledge and experience with the firm’s international network to provide comprehensive service to clients with interests in the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, South Asia and beyond.
http://www.lw.comLeo A Daly
As one of the largest architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design firms, Leo A Daly is a global leader in the design of the built environment.
The firm draws on its rich history, dedication to design excellence, and unyielding focus on quality to create exceptional spaces that enhance and enrich the human experience. Tt is the largest privately held practice in the U.S. with more than 1,100 architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design professionals in 30 offices worldwide.
http://www.leoadaly.com/
Lightbridge Corporation
Lightbridge Corporation is a nuclear energy pioneer and the leading developer of proliferation resistant fuel technology and integrated advisory services for existing and emerging nuclear programs. By leveraging a comprehensive suite of non-proliferative technical solutions and integrated advisory services, Lightbridge Corporation addresses the critical needs of the global nuclear industry and implements safe, economical and more responsible nuclear power. The Company is uniquely positioned to address the evolving needs of preexisting nuclear programs while attending to the multiple concerns of fast-growing, new nuclear programs and international nuclear vendors.
http://www.ltbridge.com
Mars, Inc.
From its humble beginnings in the Tacoma, Washington kitchen of Frank Mars, Mars, Incorporated has grown into a company of global scope with six business segments including Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley Gum and Confections, Food, Drinks and Symbioscience, generating annual revenues of more than $28 billion. As a family-owned company for nearly a century, we are guided by our Five Principles: Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom. We continually strive to put our Principles in Action in everything we do: making a difference to people and the planet through performance.
http://www.mars.com/global/index.aspx
Microsoft (Gulf)
www.microsoft.com/middleeast/gulf
Palantir
Palantir is a platform for information analysis. Palantir provides flexible tools to import and model data, intuitive constructs to search against this data, and powerful techniques to iteratively define and test hypotheses to a final product in hours or days, rather than weeks.
Patton Boggs
For more than 30 years, Patton Boggs has provided legal advice in the United Arab Emirates and throughout the Middle East. Over many years of visiting and working in the Emirates, our lawyers have earned Patton Boggs a reputation for integrity and confidentiality, a high standard of ethics, and a creative and sophisticated approach to legal and business issues. In the process, the firm has built deep and long-standing relationships with clients in Abu Dhabi and the other emirates, including major government-owned enterprises and local and foreign businesses. In addition to a team of lawyers in Abu Dhabi, Patton Boggs has attorneys resident in Dubai and is licensed in the Dubai International Financial Centre and by the Dubai Ruler’s Court.
http://www.pattonboggs.com/
PineBridge Investments
PineBridge Investments, formerly AIG Investments, has been active in the GCC countries for decades. Recently acquired by Pacific Century Group, a Hong Kong based private investment firm, PineBridge Investments is a new company with a well established track record.
PineBridge Investments manages assets for institutional and individual clients across an extensive platform of listed equity, fixed income, private equity and hedge fund-of-fund capabilities. With decades of experience in investing, we thoroughly understand our clients’ interests and are solidly positioned to deliver comprehensive investment solutions to meet their needs. With nearly 900 employees in 32 countries and jurisdictions, PineBridge Investments’ strong global network captures local market knowledge and identifies potential opportunities for the benefit of investors around the world.
Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone
Established in 2000, Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority (RAK FTZ) is one of the fastest growing and most cost-effective free trade zones in the UAE. Strategically located 45 minutes from Dubai, RAK FTZ is a world-class business hub and home to some 4,000+ active companies from 106 countries around the globe.
With our reputation for affordability, flexibility and broad geographical reach, we are rapidly emerging as the preferred business hub in the region, from which investors, of all origins and industries, can easily access and branch into the emerging markets.
Our commitment to simple and customer-friendly procedures is recognised throughout the region. Our clients enjoy the widest range of facilities and value added services, and benefit from key advantages such as: 100% tax exemption, 100% foreign ownership, transparent laws and regulations, no restrictions on capital and profit repatriation, strategic location with proximity to Dubai, state-of-the art communication facilities, and easy access to Ras Al Khaimah’s airport and sea ports.
The free zone provides cutting-edge technology and keen customer focus, while offering custom-built support services to investors in a cost-effective, customer-friendly environment. RAK FTZ also offers investors a range of unique services, including legal, human resources and marketing assistance.
RAK FTZ has four parks in Ras Al Khaimah – Business Park, Industrial Park, Technology Park and Academy Zone – that offer specific advantages and benefits to investors. RAK FTZ is the first free zone to offer business centre and innovation and promotion centre facilities in four locations in the U.A.E., as well as representative offices in Turkey, India, Germany, USA and China.
Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc.
Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a leading fire protection consulting firm providing a range of professional services involving life safety, fire protection, security and mass notification on commercial, institutional and industrial projects for clients worldwide. Founded in 1969, RJA is headquartered in Chicago with offices located in 18 major U.S. cities; Shanghai, Macau, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai.http://www.rjainc.com
Sikorksy Aircraft Corporation
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of military and commercial helicopters; spare parts, maintenance, repair and overhaul services; and civil helicopter operations.www.sikorsky.com
Unison
Unison designs traditional and interactive communications that deliver marketing, brand and public relations messages. Unison focuses on message creativity and consistency (both visual and verbal) across all media, improving communication effectiveness in a way that shows demonstrable return on investment.The company collaborates and partners with forward-thinking organizations to help them maximize the potential of the Web, to build strong, cohesive brand identities across multiple mediums, and to develop integrated communication and public relations strategies. Unison’s expertise runs the gamut from engaging identity systems to web sites, print and other media that capture imaginations, helping companies to form consistent communications programs that foster brand relationships with their audiences.
http://www.unisonagency.com/
United Airlines
United Airlines operates approximately 3,300 flights a day on United and United Express to more than 200 U.S. domestic and international destinations from its hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. With key global air rights in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and Latin America, along with nonstop flights to Dubai and Kuwait, United is one of the largest international carriers based in the United States. United also is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides connections for our customers to 916 destinations in 160 countries worldwide. United's 48,000 employees reside in every U.S. state and in many countries around the world. News releases and other information about United can be found at the company's Web site.
Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company provides fuel, services, technology, plant design, and equipment for the commercial nuclear electric power industry.
Westinghouse nuclear technology will help provide future generations with safe, clean and reliable electricity.
http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/
Wilbur Smith Associates
Wilbur Smith Associates is a full-service transportation and infrastructure-consulting firm providing a unique blend of planning, design, toll, economic and construction-related services to clients around the world. Completely employee owned, Wilbur Smith Associates has more than 1,400 associates in 56 offices in 8 countries. Since its founding in 1952, the firm has completed projects in all 50 U.S. states and 117 countries on six continents. The firm is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina.
