Recognised as the preeminent firm for corporate and finance matters in Kuwait, ASAR – Al Ruwayeh & Partners is the firm of choice for leading multinational corporations, government entities, and major local businesses. With over 40 years of experience, ASAR combines commercial insight with a proven ability to deliver on complex, high-value transactions across the Gulf.
The firm’s Finance practice is a market leader, advising on conventional and Islamic finance structures, including bilateral and syndicated lending, project finance, structured finance, and derivatives. ASAR is also a go-to advisor on financial services regulation, with a strong track record advising banks, investment companies, and sovereign wealth vehicles on compliance, licensing, and structuring.
Founded in 2015, Meysan is a leading international law firm with offices across the Middle East and the United Kingdom. The firm advises domestic, regional, and international clients on complex transactions, financings, regulatory matters, disputes, and strategic business initiatives across a wide range of industries.
Meysan provides integrated legal services across a comprehensive range of practice areas, including general commercial and corporate advisory, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and finance, private equity, local and regional commercial litigation, international arbitration, employment, compensation and benefits, antitrust and competition, data privacy and cybersecurity, project development and finance, private wealth and family office advisory, and pro bono matters. The firm also regularly advises clients on regulatory and government affairs matters, helping businesses navigate evolving legal and regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
The firm’s lawyers combine deep local knowledge with extensive international experience, enabling Meysan to advise on sophisticated domestic and cross-border matters throughout the Middle East and beyond. The team is frequently instructed on high-value and strategically significant mandates requiring complex legal analysis, commercial insight, and seamless coordination across jurisdictions.
Meysan advises clients across a broad range of sectors, including aviation, consumer and retail, education, energy and resources, financial institutions, funds and investment management, healthcare, hotels and leisure, industrial and manufacturing, oil and gas, private equity, real estate, transport and logistics, and telecommunications, media and technology. This breadth of sector experience enables the firm to provide practical, commercially focused advice tailored to the specific challenges and opportunities faced by each industry.
The firm has also played an important role in the development of Kuwait's legal and regulatory landscape, contributing to legislative and regulatory initiatives across key sectors and helping shape frameworks that support economic growth, investment, and innovation. This experience provides Meysan with a unique perspective on the interaction between law, regulation, and business, allowing it to deliver forward‑thinking and commercially effective solutions.
As a truly international practice, Meysan regularly works alongside leading global law firms, financial institutions, multinational corporations, investment funds, government entities, and private clients. The firm is frequently engaged as lead transaction counsel on complex matters and is recognised for its ability to manage sophisticated mandates that require both local insight and international standards of execution.
Meysan continues to invest in technology, innovation, and knowledge management to enhance efficiency, strengthen research capabilities, and deliver high-quality legal services. Combined with its partner‑led approach and commitment to excellence, this enables the firm to provide tailored legal solutions that meet the evolving needs of clients operating in increasingly dynamic and complex markets.
Al-Hossam Legal (Legal Consultants & Attorneys) provides high-end quality legal services and in-depth long experience (from 27 to 42 years) on major and landmark complex legal files and transactions in Kuwait and GCC as well as many Shari`ah deals in Asia, Europe and the U.S.A. The firm focus on corporate, commercial, banking & finance (including Islamic finance), capital markets, M&A and high value commercial litigations to selected major local and international banks, corporations and private clients representing full range of industry sector.
International Legal Group (ILG) is a Kuwait-based multisector law firm that provides general corporate, consultancy, and dispute resolution services to clients operating or seeking to operate in the State of Kuwait. The firm represents domestic and foreign clients, ranging from individuals to large multinational businesses and across different sectors, including construction and contracting, energy, healthcare, and information and communication technologies.
From mergers and acquisitions to public-private partnership infrastructure projects, ILG has led several landmark cases in Kuwait across all stages of advisory and litigation, including the State of Kuwait’s Court of Cassation and the State of Kuwait’s Constitutional Court. The firm holds strategic alliances with leading firms throughout the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and the United States of America to provide clients with tailored, comprehensive solutions for their cross-border transactions, and is accredited by the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA) to submit applications on behalf of investors. ILG also provides legal services to several embassies and their residents in Kuwait.
The International Legal Group was formed in 2011 as a result of the merger of the law offices of Dr. Ahmad Alsamdan & Partners and the Late Dr. Rasheed Al Anezi (established in 1984).