Susan Hagerty Le May
Chairperson/Founder
Former Banker at Lehman Brothers & Merill Lynch-GCC Emerging Markets Focus
What We Offer
Advising
IAA is a leading advisor to prominent private equity firms, buyouts, venture capital companies, hedge funds, fund of funds, traditional and emerging managers, and industry-specific businesses.
Strategy
Many IAA clients desire increased market share and a defined presence in niche geographic areas. Access to private and public sector leaders and specialists in targeted regions allows IAA clients to tap into resources and intelligence that they would normally find unavailable.
Benefits
The benefits of IAA services can minimize costs by expediting the delivery of capital raising, transcend traditional cultural, bureaucratic, and gate-keeping barriers to entry and accelerate institutions’ endeavors to expand their cross-border, global reach.
Experience
IAA offers over 100 years of collective experience in global business, private equity and emerging markets along with deep relationships with over 400 Institutional Investors in the Gulf States and Latin America.
Founded in 1990, International Alliance Associates, (IAA) is a US-based specialized boutique private equity placement agent and cross-border strategic advisory firm with US offices in New York. Our core businesses focus on raising capital for socially and environmentally responsible investments and facilitating accelerated market entry as a strategic partner to companies attempting to penetrate the “barriers to entry” in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Latin America, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
IAA provides customized solutions to companies seeking assistance in identifying the most appropriate local partners in the GCC countries. One hundred years of cumulative experience providing strategic, fundraising and advisory services to diverse entities, including Fortune 500 companies. Specializing in advising and structuring strategic alignments, IAA also provides access to many of the GCC and Latin America’s most important investors and business partners. IAA is recognized as a leading provider of deal-making expertise, global financial marketing, new market-entry advisory, turnkey project management, strategic management consultancy and other corporate advisory services. IAA has unparalleled local intelligence and a broad network of long-term, trusted relationships with over four hundred key investors, including royal families, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, merchant banks, private banks, foundations, family offices, private equity firms throughout the GCC countries and Latin America.
IAA has a formidable record of placing hundreds of millions of dollars in private equity, hedge fund, insurance and real estate investments in these regions. Our innovative, cost-effective solutions provide clients with a competitive edge and enhance their operational effectiveness, trans-cultural congruence and experience. Our local market knowledge, navigational expertise and strategic partnerships are winning solutions for scaling businesses into the GCC countries, minimizing years of potential “downtime” and costly errors. Since 1996, IAA has successfully represented General Partners (GPs) in raising several billion USD, with excellent distribution capabilities throughout the GCC Countries. We offer ancillary services to GPs including investor relations, vetting potential strategic partners and investors throughout the final diligence and closing process.
The methodology applied by IAA reflects professional excellence, industry expertise and client commitment. The nature of every transaction is highly complex and unique. As such, IAA is engaged in analyzing client objectives and making recommendations, where needed, in order to improve the potential for success.
Meet Our Team
Dr. Mark Munoz
Strategic Advisor
Expert in emerging-frontier corporate strategy
Dr. Jack McMullen
Strategic Advisor
Harvard Law-MBA Professor in Business Strategy and Technology
Dr. Andrew McDonnell
Health Care Head
IAA Health Care Head Neuroradiologist, Teleradiology and Traditional Radiology
Abdullah AlSubyani
Strategic Advisor
Refining, petrochemicals, plastics, venture capital
Kamal Kabli
Strategic Partner
Expert in:
Multinational Strategic Partnership; M&A; Equity & Debt Financing.
Global Solution Provider for:
Renewable Energy; Smart Systems for Public Safety-& Security; Industrial Complexes; Oil & Gas; Social & Developmental Housing; Medical Innovations; Transportation.
Regions:
GCC; Middle East; Africa.
Christa Wang
Recruiter
Christa joined IAA in 2018. She has extensive background in customer service, staff training, development, goal setting and career planning; establishing and maintaining employee relations and highly value confidentiality. Additionally, she promotes and supports an ethical working environment.
Alex Young
Business Manager
Alex joined IAA in 2019. He is mainly responsible for conducting fundamental analysis for equity and commodity markets, primarily natural resource commodities, as well as extended projects in energy commodities and softs. Alex is specialized in comprehensive econometric studies with his skills in statistics and quantitative methods. The majority of Alex’s tasks are involved in economic modeling. He has proved to be a phenomenal asset to the firm.
Client Testimonials
Baring Private Equity Partners, Asia
Asian-oriented PE Firm and GCC Strategic Advisor
"We have had a very positive experience working with International Alliance Associates in introducing our private equity funds to investors in the Middle East."
Magnum
Hedge Fund of Funds Strategic Advisory
"Ms. Hagerty introduced Magnum to a number of financial institutions, banks, and brokerage firms in Latin America and the Middle East. She displayed an extensive level of knowledge and familiarity with complex financial investment structures and appeared to have excellent relationships with senior executives of many financial institutions."
China Digital Media Group
GCC Market Entry Advisor
"International Alliance Associates, LLC provides the equivalent of having a local strategic partner with connectivity that is unparalleled in terms of accessing/vetting appropriate investors/partners."
Octane Holding Ltd.
Hedge Fund of Funds GCC Market Entry and Positioning and Strategic Advisory Services
"Mrs. Hagerty and the firm LLC impressed us with her knowledge of the 'who is who' in these markets, covering the Banking sector as well as CFO level in general, the government and finally even ministerial levels."
Abdulhamid A Al-Mutawa & Partners Co.
M&A Advisory
"Ms. Hagerty is an extremely focused, strategic thinker and planner, has an excellent work ethic, and superb transcultural interpersonal skills. She clearly would be an asset to any organization and should be able to significantly contribute to any business development endeavors in this region."
Amhurst Capital Partners
VC Fund of Funds, Strategic Advisor
"Leveraging her career-long experience in the region, Ms. Hagerty was very effective in connecting us to the appropriate investor audience. She demonstrated exceptional expertise on the region's distinct business culture and has very extensive business relationships with numerous key business leaders."
Contact Us
Find us at the office
57 West 57th Street Suite 400
New York, NY 10019
Give us a call!
S. Hagerty
+1 (212) 319-4389