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Lumina Partners seals a strategic alliance with Tahaluf Al Emarat at Make it in the Emirates

Signed on 4 May in Abu Dhabi, an alliance that opens new perspectives for French companies across the GCC

On 4 May 2026, on the sidelines of Make it in the Emirates 2026 in Abu Dhabi, Lumina Partners and Tahaluf Al Emarat Technical Solutions formalised a strategic partnership.

The agreement was signed by His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Musabbeh Al Kaabi, and by Hamza Salah-Mars, founder and CEO of Lumina Partners and Trustee Member of CCI France UAE.

An alliance between two firms with complementary profiles

Lumina Partners is a boutique strategic consultancy founded in Dubai.

The firm supports GCC organisations in unlocking the value of their digital capital, through six lines of expertise:

• digital strategy,
• transformation and performance,
• M&A advisory,
• innovation and artificial intelligence,
• human dynamics and cultural transformation,
• sustainability.

Lumina combines a deeply Emirati identity with the methodological rigour forged through close to two decades of transformations conducted in France and across Europe.

Tahaluf Al Emarat Technical Solutions is one of the leading Emirati players in technological solutions applied to digital and industrial transformation.

Its proximity to the national ecosystem, its technical execution capabilities, and the stature of its leadership make it a strategic partner of choice for organisations seeking to anchor their transformation in the reality of the Emirati market.

A single end-to-end partner

Concretely, the alliance enables both firms to offer, across the GCC, what they describe as a single end-to-end partner.

From strategic framing at the highest executive level to technology delivery operated locally, including the governance of execution itself.

For clients, this translates into a single chain of accountability, two signatures, and full alignment between thinking and action.

A concrete opportunity for French companies in the GCC

For French companies operating in the Emirates or seeking to expand there, the challenge is rarely the quality of the strategy or the relevance of the offering.

The challenge is local anchorage. Understanding the right counterparts, navigating the right ecosystems, speaking the language of national decision-makers, delivering on time with the right teams.

This is precisely the bridge this partnership is designed to offer.

A firm led by a founder of francophone culture and European methodology, allied with a national Emirati champion, represents for the CCI France UAE community a concrete combination of capabilities directly available for matters of digital transformation, commercial structuring, or regional expansion.

"For CCI France UAE members, this alliance is above all a tool at the service of their ambitions," says Hamza Salah-Mars. "Our community has always known how to forge bridges where others saw borders. This signature is, on its modest scale, one of those bridges."

To take this further

Lumina Partners remains available to CCI France UAE members who wish to explore how this partnership could serve their objectives.

Conversations can be initiated at upcoming CCI events, or directly through the usual channels.