About
Dr. Karen Seif heads the International Arbitration team at Habib Al Mulla & Partners, handling high-stakes disputes across multiple sectors and representing clients in arbitrations under DIAC, ICC, LCIA, AAA-ICDR, UNCITRAL, and arbitrate-ad rules. She is a registered practitioner in the ADGM and DIFC Courts, serves as an arbitrator on the DIAC panel, and holds faculty positions at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (and previously NYU Abu Dhabi). She also served as a judicial fellow in the U.S. Federal Courts (Northern District of California).
Practice areas
ArbitrationInternational Litigation
Office
Expertise
Commercial ArbitrationConstruction ArbitrationShareholder DisputesIP RightsCross-border Litigation
Education
- Doctor of Juridical Science (JSD), University of California at Berkeley (2022)
- LL.M., University of California at Berkeley (2015)
- LL.M., International Dispute Resolution and Economic Law (with Merit), (2015)
- License and Master’s (with Honors), Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2012)
Languages
EnglishFrenchArabic