Three corridors. Three regulatory regimes. One method.

Sovereign wealth funds and state holding companies have become among the most active direct investors in the world, and US deployment is now their priority channel. The transactions that close are the ones designed from day one to survive American national-security and investment-screening review — not the ones that try to argue their way through it afterward.

Cohen Waldman & Associates advises both sides of the corridor on how to architect a relationship that holds up under scrutiny: the inbound-investment posture, the governance and information-rights structure, the third-country exposure mapping, and the documentation a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States review will demand. We help clients anticipate and navigate CFIUS, sanctions, export-control, and outbound-investment regimes — and bring the right registered partners in when a mandate requires regulated execution.

Gulf capital is the most credible long-duration partner for African resource and infrastructure projects today, and African sovereigns and development-finance institutions need counterparties who can structure for both commercial return and political durability. The opportunity is real; the discipline required to capture it is the discipline whose absence destroyed the previous generation of intermediaries.

Cohen Waldman & Associates helps clients navigate the FCPA and equivalent anti-bribery regimes that define this corridor, with forensic counterparty diligence, transparent payment and procurement structures, and a hard refusal to work through opaque intermediaries or shell vehicles. We advise on project structuring, off-take and feedstock arrangements, market-entry vehicles, and the governance documentation that lets a global compliance team approve the relationship.

The commercial corridor between Gulf capital and Greater China is one of the most consequential of the next decade, and it remains under-served by advisors who can sit credibly with both sides. CW&A advises on the conventional commercial stack — energy and resource flows, port and logistics infrastructure, industrial and consumer joint ventures, market-entry structures — with principals positioned in both the Gulf and Greater China to convene the right counterparties in person.

The Firm respects the boundaries that govern sensitive sectors. US outbound-investment law restricts US persons from certain investments into Chinese covered technologies — semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum, high-performance computing, and hypersonics — and from directing others into them. Work in those covered sectors is led by the Firm's non-US-person principals where the law permits, and routed to independent counsel where it does not. The commercial corridor is large, and the Firm is built to do it cleanly.