Menas Associates
CRI acquired Menas Associates in June 2025.
Our partnership with Menas adds significant resources to our practice in MENA and beyond, in addition to a global network of experts strengthening our offering to law firms, corporates and financial services clients.
Corporate Intelligence
Menas has extensive expertise of conducting discreet due diligence investigations and background checks to reduce clients’ exposure to reputational and commercial risks that come from working with third-parties in emerging markets.
Political and Security Risk Assessments
Levering deep regional expertise and networks across MENA and emerging markets, Menas’ political and security risk assessments provide a coherent overview of the non-technical risks that may undermine clients’ business objectives.
Strategic Intelligence
Menas supports clients to gain a clear and contextualised picture of emerging markets and to better understand opaque governments and their decision-making apparatus through the analysis and assessment of intelligence relating to public policy, strategy and key decision makers and stakeholders.
Litigation and Arbitration Support
Arming lawyers and counsel with evidence, intelligence and expert witnesses to support legal strategy in litigation and arbitration cases, including in the context of judgement enforcements, asset tracing, disputes and investigations.
Publications
Menas produces a series of long running publications which aim to help existing and potential investors to track critical commercial developments, and to identify the risks and opportunities in complex and challenging markets.
About Menas
Established in 1978, Menas is a strategic, political, and integrity risk consultancy that provides intelligence for multinational companies operating across all emerging and frontier markets. In addition to its long-running political and security publications, Menas offers a complete suite of investigative services including corporate intelligence, political and security risk assessments, litigation and arbitration support, and strategic intelligence.
Visit Menas Associates website here.
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