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Investment funds: A guide to marketing foreign funds in the Middle East

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We are pleased to provide this guide to marketing foreign funds in the Middle East, meaning the countries within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

The guide is aimed at providing a summary of the regulations which apply to marketing the funds as of July 2021.

Our Charles Russell Speechlys funds team - based in the GCC region, the UK and Luxembourg - monitor these regulations, and you are welcome to contact us for more details in the context of you and your colleagues looking to market-specific funds to investors in the region.

We plan to update this guide every six months. To access the guide, please click here.

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