Maktoum bin Mohammed meets with EMEA Co-Head of leading global private equity and investment firm KKR

His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Finance of the UAE, contiguous met with Tara Davies, Partner, Co-Head of KKR for Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Co-Head of European Infrastructure. KKR is 1 of the world’s starring backstage equity and concern firms. The gathering was held astatine HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed’s office.

During the gathering His Highness underlined the UAE’s committedness to fostering strategical partnerships with planetary fiscal firms and helping them thrive with robust infrastructure, business-enabling services and growth-friendly regulatory frameworks. The UAE’s exceptional manufacture ecosystem makes it an perfect hub for planetary fiscal firms seeking to capitalise connected high-growth opportunities and grow their footprint successful the broader region, His Highness noted.

Sheikh Maktoum further said that arsenic portion of its beardown ethos of public-private partnerships, Dubai seeks to foster collaboration with starring planetary fiscal companies to execute the extremity of the Dubai Economic Agenda D33 to found the metropolis arsenic 1 of the world’s apical 4 fiscal hubs by 2033.

The gathering was attended by His Excellency Mohamed bin Hadi Al Hussaini, Minister of State for Finance; His Excellency Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of Sports; His Excellency Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications; and His Excellency Helal Saeed Al Marri, Director General of the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), 1 of the world’s foremost backstage equity and concern companies, established its bureau successful the Dubai International Financial Centre successful 2009. The firm, which invests crossed backstage markets successful each plus people each implicit the world, has $624 cardinal worthy of assets nether absorption (AUM), arsenic of 30 September, 2024.

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