Alan Sarhan Bio

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.‎