Pervez Akhtar

Pervez has over 25 years of extensive cross-border experience with a practice focusing on M&A, private equity and joint ventures across various sectors including financial services, insurance, energy, utilities, transport, logistics, consumer goods, retail, education, healthcare, telecoms and media.

His clients are typically regional and international financial investors, corporates and private equity houses doing business throughout MENA, the rest of Africa, Turkey, and south and southeast Asia. Pervez also advises sovereign wealth funds and government investment vehicles on transactions integral to their strategic investment and economic diversification programmes.

He is recognised as one of the region’s leading corporate lawyers and is consistently ranked in the leading legal directories. He has significant ‘on the ground’ experience in MENA and internationally, advising on some of the most complex deals and the most high profile transactions in the MENA region.