Shahameen Jehan Sheikh is an experienced corporate executive, investor, and investment advisor. She has represented governments and major international corporations from the Middle East, U.S., Asia, and Europe in large infrastructure projects and other investment matters, including transactions in the areas of financial services, energy, the environment, oil and gas, and privatization of state-owned entities.
Shahameen was the president of International Strategy Consultancy (ISC), a Middle East firm based in Dubai. She has worked with the international client groups of major international financial institutions, law firms, consulting firms, government organizations, and corporate houses. Shahameen also served as the chairwoman of Totalize PLC in the early 2000s.
After the Persian Gulf War, Shahameen and Robert J. Dwyer coordinated a multidisciplinary team of over 150 international and Kuwaiti/Middle East professionals who advised, prepared, and resolved over $100 billion of claims for the government of Kuwait against Iraq relating to the invasion and occupation of Kuwait. The claims were argued in Geneva, Switzerland, before the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), which was established for that purpose, and were settled in accordance with laws applicable to sovereign dispute resolution. In 2000, she moved to England to work on the protection and investment of UNCC public sector claims and awards proceeds. In 2004, she was part of the group that made a formal representation to the Kuwait Governing Council along with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
In 2007, a consortium headed by Shahameen was selected to lead the world’s largest environmental remediation design program for Kuwait in cooperation with Princeton University.
Shahameen formed Liquid Cap Company in 2014 in Dubai to serve as senior advisor to government and international clients. In November 2021, Shahameen was appointed Head of Middle East Cooperation by Boies Schiller Flexner. Her areas of discipline are project planning supervisory commission services, such as turn key governance, compliance, and oversight for government and corporate projects from concept to design through implementation; strategic business development and market strategies; deal identification and execution; private equity and institutional funds placement; and government relations and corporate access.