ExclusiveAide to Dubai prince-pop singer Sheikh Ali Al Maktoum: ‘We are staying in Hong Kong but we are quiet with everything we do’
- ‘We want to be careful and we want to cement real businesses, which are happening at the moment … there are talks already,’ Amira Lobaton says
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A close aide of a Dubai prince who had pledged to open a US$500 million family office in Hong Kong has brushed aside questions about the sheikh’s parallel identity as a pop singer, insisting he was committed to his mega investment in the city.
Sheikh Ali Rashed Ali Saeed Al Maktoum and his team were in Hong Kong to “cement real businesses” and negotiations were proceeding in a “very quiet” way, Amira Lobaton told the Post.
Speaking exclusively to the Post, Lobaton, the head of business development of the prince’s private office, took pains to explain the office’s approach after delaying its inauguration ceremony to the end of May.
“We are doing things quietly as we are like that in the United Arab Emirates [UAE]. We are very quiet with everything that we are doing, especially that we are entering a new territory. This is not our territory,” she said.
“We want to be careful and we want to cement real businesses, which are happening at the moment. There are negotiations, there are talks already.”