We operate through our own local teams across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Western Europe. Our teams combine deep local insight with global expertise to support our clients navigate complex political environments with confidence.
Our strategic partners extend our reach and on-the-ground capabilities across key global markets.
Our global footprint reflects our commitment to serving clients across key markets worldwide. With a strong presence in strategically important regions, we combine local expertise with a global perspective to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions. Through these trusted relationships, we deliver localized expertise, regional intelligence, and seamless support for clients operating across complex environments.
Our strategic partners extend our reach and on-the-ground capabilities across key global markets.
Our global footprint reflects our commitment to serving clients across key markets worldwide. With a strong presence in strategically important regions, we combine local expertise with a global perspective to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions. Through these trusted relationships, we deliver localized expertise, regional intelligence, and seamless support for clients operating across complex environments.
IFZA Business Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
NorthStar is headquartered in Dubai, the commercial crossroads connecting MENA, Asia, and the world. It's where our operations are anchored, our regional relationships are built, and our perspective is shaped.
We're one of the few political risk and communications consultancies to have grown from East to West—not the other way around. That distinction matters. It means we see emerging markets not as distant frontiers, but as home.
128 City Road, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 2NX
Our London presence extends NorthStar's reach into European markets and transatlantic corridors. From here, we support clients navigating emerging economies’ regulatory landscapes, engage Western investors eyeing opportunities in MENA and APAC, and maintain proximity to the City's financial ecosystem.
London complements Dubai—together, they position NorthStar at both ends of the trade and capital flows reshaping global commerce.
Opening in the next 6–8 months
Singapore anchors our presence across Asia-Pacific—the world's fastest-growing economic region. From this hub, we cover the political and regulatory dynamics shaping Southeast Asia, support clients entering ASEAN markets, and connect the dots between Gulf capital and Asian opportunity.
It's the third point in a triangle that spans emerging and developed markets alike.
CityScape 2025, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
UK-China Tech Summit, London, United Kingdom
AIM Summit 2025, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ADIPEC 2025, Abu Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Chatham House Summer Party 2025, London, United Kingdom
Politico AI and Tech Summit 2025, London, United Kingdom
Our strategic partners extend our reach and on-the-ground insight across key global markets. Through these trusted relationships, we deliver localized expertise, regional intelligence, and seamless support for clients operating across complex environments.
NorthStar partnered with a leading independent specialist (re)insurance broker placing around £3.7 billion in gross written premium to deliver a focused positioning session following their acquisition of a reinsurance brokerage in the Middle East. With a global team of more than 1,300 people, the firm turned to us to help them cut through the noise and identify the key dynamics shaping the region. We worked with them to define how they could position themselves ahead of the volatility, turning regional uncertainty into a competitive advantage.
NorthStar is supporting the region's leading private capital conference which brings together 600+ senior LPs, GPs and private equity decision-makers from 40+ countries at a prestigious DIFC venue in Dubai and generates more than 11,000 meetings each year with media relations and broader communications. We're helping them amplify the conversations that matter across the regional and international investment community, securing coverage and sharpening their narrative to land with the audiences that count.
An Indian auto parts manufacturer preparing for IPO listing needed a communications partner to sharpen its brand narrative and build investor-facing credibility across new international markets. NorthStar developed the company's positioning and messaging architecture, shaping how it tells its growth story to investors, analysts and media as it expands into Turkey and Morocco. The mandate has since deepened into full pre-IPO communications support, including investor narrative, leadership visibility and media engagement. The company now approaches its listing with a coherent brand platform, a clearly articulated investment thesis and the communications infrastructure to engage public market investors with confidence. It is set to list over the next few years, subject to SEBI approval, and NorthStar remains a retained advisor for its ongoing communications and investor positioning needs.
An inaugural cross-border investment forum required a comprehensive media and communications strategy to establish credibility, drive awareness, and position itself as a serious, institutional-grade event with over $1Tr in AUM represented in the room ahead of its launch in Zurich, Switzerland. NorthStar designed and executed an end-to-end communications strategy for the summit, including press release drafting, media narrative development, and stakeholder messaging. We shaped the event's public positioning, framing it not as a networking conference but as cross-border investment infrastructure. We delivered a polished, institutionally credible communications platform ahead of the launch, equipping the organising team with the narrative infrastructure and media materials needed to engage tier-one financial press and attract the right calibre of attendees and sponsors.
