What We Do
We are an independently owned firm offering specialist advisory services to private clients and businesses from the Middle East seeking one stop, bespoke and seamless service solutions in the UK.
We pride ourselves in offering a unique hands-on service in assisting individuals and companies based in the Middle East, to include; asset optimisation,
easy to follow relocation guidance to the UK, taxation and inheritance regulations, new business start ups, investment appraisals and business valuations, and entry business opportunities into the UK market.
Equally, our expertise and contacts offer European companies assistance and guidance when seeking entry opportunities into new markets in the Middle East..
MEET business model has expanded considerably in the last few years by working on complex and challenging projects for both its individual and corporate clients. The geographical client base now includes numerous projects in Canada, UK, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia.
Recently, our Chartered Director and Fellow of the Institue of Directors was appointed to advise three separate boards of directors. The main role is to formulate the business strategic direction, implement best practices in good governance, and analyse and appraise investment decisions
A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR
Mr. Walid Imam
Managing Director
MBA, BSc (Eng.), CDir, FIoD
Walid is a Chartered Director and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, who has worked extensively in the Middle East and the UK. He has vast experience in management consultancy, financial analysis and investment solutions. He provides proactive, bespoke advice in an easy to understand way, no matter how complex the enquiry. Walid has built up a number of links with specialised UK firms to maximize advice for his Middle Eastern clients in the areas of taxation and accounting compliance, immigration visa stages leading to naturalisation, asset preservation and new business startups.
Dr Andrew Douglas
BA (Hon), M.Phil, Ph.D.
Andrew is a strategic thinker with extensive business experience spanning many decades. He heads several successful businesses and is an innovative investor.
Mr Yasar Ajlouni
Project Management Consultant
BSC (Eng.), MSc (Eng.) PMP, PMOC, MSP, ACX Master, CIM
Yasar has over 16 years of process led management consultancy experience with projects of different sectors to include Dubai Electricity & Water Authority, Fine Nuqul Group MENA region, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, and Kasih Food Production Company in Jordan, and many others. His core competencies are strategy development and implementation, change management, PMO and project management and re-engineering program development. Yasar delivers his projects in a systematic methodology that is easy to understand and is inclusive of all concerned stakeholders. Due to the experience gained over the years with different sectors in the Middle East, Yasar represented Jordan in 2021 at the world’s most prestigious award for the top 8 PMO leaders (Asia Pacific).
Mrs. Sahar Faraj
Sales & Marketing Director
Sahar has extensive sales experience and has a large bank of clients gained throughout her networking skills. She has focused her energy on making a bridge between the Middle East and the UK, offering a hands-on experience for clients wishing to move to the UK from various Arab countries. She is fluent in Arabic, Spanish and English.
Mr. Haitham Abusabha
Digital Development Consultant & Data Scientist
BSc. Business Computing
Haitham is Computer Scientist specialising in digital business development and transformation. With extensive knowledge in web development, automation of cloud process and delivering insights through data, he stands as the bridge to provide the guidance and development needs for businesses stepping into the digital information age.
Mr. Samit Gupta
Association of Chartered Accountants, Director MBA, FCCA
Samit Gupta, is a qualified accountant, who has over 30 years of experience of accounting and tax service. Samit is a Chartered Accountant, FCCA, who is registered with the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA) under number 0310897 and a member since 31st Dec 2001. For more info, please click on the link
Mr Saqib Khan
Legal Director (Solicitor and Officer of the Supreme Court of England & Wales)
LLB (Hons) Warwick, LPC (College of Law), PSC (College of Law)
KhanMather Solicitors are an award winning firm of solicitors and are the perfect choice as the approved legal advisors to Middle East & European Trading Ltd. Saqib is the Managing Director of KhanMather and drives his firm’s strategic vision and manages client relations, by giving a ‘Rolls-Royce’ service, to his individual and business clients. KhanMather carries out various areas of work including Residential Property Services, Immigration, Employment and HR Advice, Litigation Services, Contractual and Commercial Law Advice and GDPR and Data Protection Services.
Saqib is recognised as an excellent Solicitor and Officer of the Supreme Court of England & Wales and KhanMather is also featured as a ‘Recommended Law Firm’ by the independent organisation the ‘Legal 500’. Additionally, Saqib is also legally qualified in other jurisdictions as he is similarly able to practise as a Solicitor and Officer in the Courts of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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THE SELECTED CASE STUDIES SHOW HOW MEƎT HAVE AN EXTENSIVE TOOLBOX, WHICH OFFERS EASY TO FOLLOW AND LOGICAL SOLUTIONS TO ISSUES THAT VARY IN MAGNITUDE AND COMPLEXITY.
testimonials
"The investment appraisals carried out by your company plus subsequent analysis were all very valuable in helping the Board decide upon opening three more branches in our restaurant group "
- Mr Wadah Daoudi
CEO of Kababji Group - Amman, Jordan
"Thank you so much for the series of meetings you have had with Walid at such short notice. It is our good fortune that Walid was able to meet you on our behalf and get so much accomplished in so little time. Walid`s ideas are a major help in helping me formulate a strategy in preserving my family's wealth."
- Private Jordanian Client Written
to Laura Hutchinson of Forbes Dawson (Taxation)
"MEƎT is simply on a class of its own!"
- Raed Al-Askari
CEO di telecom
- Private client in London
" Walid, I know the quality of the advice you will be giving me and I know the amount of work you will put into it before you give it. I will be consulting you extensively from time to time, and I know that I will get the best advice possible for it. I am finding through your expertise a way through a maze of options and appropriate guidance that I would not get elsewhere."
-Mr Rami Abdel-Wahab - Summer 2021
CEO of Electrostatic Coating ltd - Midlands-UK.
" I was honored knowing you and I did feel that you are a very decent man and very cooperative. You helped me a lot in my first step towards living in the UK and I hope we can do more at the level of a win-win business relationship. I know that you are very organized, trustworthy, well experienced, and reliable and I want to build our business relations on that."
- Mr M Metwaly
CEO of MEPICO- Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
"We extend our gratitude to you for totally completing our formalities from all angles. We did not appreciate the extent of the difficulties when we first started. However, with your guidance and the ability to tie up loose ends, small or large, you managed to get us a positive outcome in relation to the taxation regulations, immigration rules, and employment and inheritance directives.
We will continue to use your expertise for years to come."
Private client in London
"So heartening to see how a seemingly hopeless initial search yielded a tailor-made and optimal solution. You have a talent for solving problems Walid."
-Private Client
- (Levant Area)
"I have worked closely with Walid on projects in the past. He is thorough, professional and dedicated to finding the best solution for his clients. Walid is a safe pair of hands; and much more besides. Someone you want on your side."
- Dr Andrew Douglas
Chairman of Newhall Group Ltd
"MEƎT have exceeded all expectations, through their expertise in finding solutions to complex issues and offering a maze of options. Their know-how in tax policies and accounting regulations, business development and investment strategy and guidance, could not be gotten elsewhere, all offered under the same roof."
- Business Investor and Entrepreneur
- Greater Manchester