Alex Saleh

Alex Saleh is a Founder and Managing Partner of GLA & Company and takes a leading regional role within the firm with respect to its M&A and Private Equity practice.  With over 25 years of experience in both the GCC markets as well as the US, he has accumulated sizable expertise in the areas of banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions, capital market deals and infrastructure projects.  

• Represented DSV Panalpina in its acquisition of the logistics division of Agility Public Warehousing Company as MENA counsel in an all-share deal worth US$ 4.1 billion, the largest merger & acquisition transaction in the MENA region in 2021;
• Acted as GCC counsel on behalf of Softbank’s Vision Fund II, which led the Series C US415 million funding into Kitopi, which was the largest private equity transaction in the MENA region in 2021;
• Represented HSBC Bank plc and Citigroup Global Markets Limited, in their joint capacity as Arrangers, with respect to a US$ 500 Million Euro Medium Term Note Programme with Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait KSCP;
• Representing Warba Bank, in its capacity as Issuer, in a US$ 500 Million Tier 1 Sukuk issuance, which was led by Standard Chartered Bank as Lead Manager.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Competition
• Financial restructuring
• Islamic finance
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Project finance
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Aviation
• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Investment management
• Oil and gas
• Pharma and life sciences
• Tech and telecoms
• Utilities

• State of Michigan (USA)
• Commonwealth of Virginia (USA)

• (US) Commonwealth of Virginia Bar;
  (US) State of Michigan Bar;
  United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia & Michigan; and
  United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

• Georgetown Law School – Washington D.C. USA, Juris Doctor
• Wayne State University – Detroit, Michigan USA, Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude)