Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan holds the title of Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and is the eldest son of UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ¹. He is the nephew of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE National Security Adviser and a full brother of the UAE President ¹.

The available record treats Khaled bin Mohamed primarily through his SCFEA-resolution role as L'IMAD chair rather than through prior portfolio history; it does not enumerate his earlier Abu Dhabi Executive Council, Department of Energy, or Office of Strategic Affairs assignments, and any pre-2026 institutional affiliations therefore fall outside the verified evidence in this dossier ¹.

The chairmanship of ADQ (Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding) was transferred from Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in January 2026 by resolution of the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs (SCFEA), per UAE state media, AGBI, and Global Finance Magazine ¹. The same SCFEA resolution simultaneously consolidated ADQ's portfolio into the newly formed L'IMAD Holding Company under Khaled bin Mohamed's chairmanship ¹.

Tahnoon did not exit the broader Abu Dhabi sovereign-investment system in connection with the transfer; he retained his chair positions at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), MGX Fund Management Limited, G42, International Holding Company, Royal Group, First Abu Dhabi Bank, and the AI and Advanced Technology Council ¹. The transfer is therefore best read as a portfolio split rather than a removal, with the ADQ-successor consolidation moving to the next generation while the portfolio Tahnoon retains remained intact ¹.

Per UAE state media and Gulf-region press, L'IMAD Holding Company was created by SCFEA resolution in January 2026 to consolidate ADQ's approximately $263 billion in assets under management, 25 investment companies and platforms, and more than 250 subsidiaries into a single sovereign-investment holding entity ¹. The post-consolidation total assets under management figure is reported at approximately $300 billion ¹.

The record names Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as L'IMAD chair and Jassem Mohamed Bu Ataba Al Zaabi as managing director and chief executive officer ¹. The cross-pillar interlock with Mubadala is documented separately: Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Mubadala's managing director and group chief executive officer, sits on the L'IMAD Holding board, providing direct governance overlap between the new third pillar and the established Mubadala pillar ¹.

Subsidiary-level disclosure of which specific ADQ portfolio companies, platforms, or downstream investments rolled into L'IMAD is not present in the record; the consolidation is documented at the holding-entity level rather than at the operating-asset level ¹.

The Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs oversees three sovereign-investment pillars: ADIA, Mubadala, and L'IMAD ². This recasts an earlier two-pillar reading in which Mubadala was identified as the cross-network unifying sponsor, with L'IMAD now standing as a separate third pillar carrying the consolidated ADQ-successor portfolio ².

Two horizontal scaffolding layers operate across the three pillars: a regulatory layer represented by Mohamed Ali Al Shorafa Al Hammadi, who chairs the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) and serves as Vice Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM); and a US-listing layer represented by Essa Kazim, identified as a Nasdaq director through Borse Dubai ². On this reading, L'IMAD activity at the operating-company level can in principle move through the same regulatory and listing infrastructure as the ADIA and Mubadala pillars ².

The documentary record treats the L'IMAD consolidation under Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the structural mechanism by which the expanded three-pillar SCFEA model becomes operative, attributing the bridging effect to durable institutional roles rather than to individual chair positions — institutional bridges that outlast individual principals ². On the same reading, Sultan bin Sulayem resigned from DP World on February 13, 2026, after the Department of Justice Epstein release, the first observed visible loss for the Tahnoon network on Epstein-related exposure, with the Nasdaq-via-Borse-Dubai access seat passing to Essa Kazim ².

For this investigation, the implication is that the ADQ-to-L'IMAD transfer compartmentalizes the next-generation portfolio under Khaled bin Mohamed while leaving the portfolio Tahnoon retains — including MGX, identified as having deployed $2 billion of WLFI USD1 to Binance in May 2025, and the Aryam Investment 1 stake in World Liberty Financial — formally outside the L'IMAD perimeter ². The separation is structural rather than dispositive: it does not by itself answer whether L'IMAD-perimeter assets participate in the same flows, and whether any consolidated ADQ subsidiaries had pre-existing exposure to the WLFI, MGX, or Tahnoon-network transactions documented elsewhere in the investigation remains unresolved in the available record ².