Bio

Tom Thraya is Chair of Mayer Brown's Middle East practice, is the Managing Partner of Mayer Brown's Dubai office, and is a member of the global Corporate & Securities practice. He has spent well over a decade practicing in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East region. Tom advises both private and public clients in the areas of cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, international and domestic joint ventures, private equity and global corporate reorganizations. He also advises clients on international and domestic commercial agreements, foreign direct investment, regulatory and governmental matters, employment, including immigration matters, and compliance related advice and investigations, litigation/arbitration support and general corporate and commercial counseling. Tom has an international geographic focus on the Middle East (with particular emphasis on the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iraq) and is a fluent Arabic speaker and reader.