Who we serve
Our clients are founders and principals, family offices, lenders and the borrowers they finance, and the advisors who introduce them. Most arrive by referral, and most stay.
ABOUT DILMUN PARTNERS
A partner-led firm,
formed where the Gulf begins.
Dilmun Partners is a partner-led corporate services firm with offices in Bahrain and the Dubai International Financial Centre, and a representative office in London. We form, license and keep companies, funds and holding structures for principals who intend them to last.
How we work
Every matter is owned by a partner, answered within one working day, and documented to the standard the receiving institution expects. We form to specification, a lender's, a regulator's, a bank's, because a structure built correctly the first time does not have to be rebuilt.
The boundary
We are a corporate services firm. We do not arrange capital, advise on financial products, or manage investments; regulated activities in any structure we build are performed by the licensed institutions in the chain. The boundary is deliberate. It is what allows us to stand entirely on the client's side of the table.
Registration and standing
DILMUN PARTNERS is registered in the Kingdom of Bahrain, Commercial Registration 79910-1, with its registered office in Manama, operates in the DIFC through licensed corporate-services arrangements, and maintains a representative and correspondence office in London, through which engagements with clients outside the Gulf commence before moving to Bahrain or the DIFC for contracting and performance. Our Bahrain record can be sighted on the Ministry of Industry and Commerce registry under our exact registered name.
One firm, three addresses. For clients outside the Gulf, every engagement begins in London and is completed in Bahrain or the DIFC.
LONDON
Correspondence, first conversations, client meetings
MANAMA
Contracting, performance, the file
DUBAI (DIFC)
Contracting, performance, the file
Ownership
Dilmun Partners is the corporate services brand of Dilmun, a New York-based family office with Gulf origins. The family's investment history is publicly documented: in 2018 it acquired a 40 per cent interest in LJ Partnership, the London firm that became Alvarium Investments and, from January 2023, part of AlTi Global, listed on NASDAQ.
"We are measured in speech, exact in documents, and reachable in two languages."