Alan Sarhan is a business lawyer with broad experience in corporate and commercial law, mergers & acquisitions, engineering and construction law, international risk management, global trade and compliance, economic sanctions, and export control.
Alan Sarhan developed extensive experience as a corporate commercial lawyer at a national law firm having worked on a wide range of transactions in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, engineering/construction, infrastructure, public private partnerships, and media/entertainment, before joining the...
Alan Sarhan is a business lawyer with broad experience in corporate and commercial law, mergers & acquisitions, engineering and construction law, international risk management, global trade and compliance, economic sanctions, and export control.
Alan Sarhan developed extensive experience as a corporate commercial lawyer at a national law firm having worked on a wide range of transactions in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, engineering/construction, infrastructure, public private partnerships, and media/entertainment, before joining the in-house team at one of the largest multinational engineering & construction firms in the world. There he was on the M&A and infrastructure team before becoming the Legal Director of its Ethics & Compliance Department. In that role he acquired a significant amount of experience in compliance program development, crisis management, anti-corruption law, economic sanctions, government enforcement, internal investigations and corporate monitorships.
Alan also advises a broad range of domestic and international clients on compliance with modern slavery laws and how to best mitigate risks relating to human rights in their operations and supply chains, as well as advising them on corporate reporting obligations, including those under Canada’s new Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act.
In 2015, Alan co-founded the Canadian office of a boutique business integrity law firm where he specialized in international risk management and global compliance having worked on files in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. He has particular expertise with integrity rules of various international financial institutions, including the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the European Investment Bank.
