ASA Consultants was established in Bahrain in 1994 by Abdulla A. Saudi, the Founding President & Chief Executive of Arab Banking Corporation. ASA Consultants, an independent advisory firm licensed by the Bahrain Monetary Agency, with offices in Bahrain and Libya, provides a range of corporate finance, institutional investment and M & A services to regional and international financial institutions, governments and corporations. The majority of the transactions in which ASA Consultants is involved remain undisclosed; however, some of the publicised deals of the past few years have included the privatisation of Mr Berlusconi’s Italian television network Mediaset, the re-capitalisation of Banca di Roma (now Capitalia) in Italy, the acquisition of Credit Libanais in Beirut and the capital restructuring of the Housing Bank for Trade & Finance in Jordan. More recently, ASA Consultants acted on behalf of ABN-Amro Bank with regard to the sale of their Bahrain banking operations to BankMuscat.The executive team of ASA Consultants is uniquely positioned to combine its relationships and insights in the Arab world with its international financial markets expertise.