Lawyers in United Arab Emirates

Leah Weldon-Evans

Leah Weldon-Evans practices in our Financial Markets team based in Dubai. Having been in the region for over a decade, she has extensive expertise in debt capital markets and Islamic finance. Leah has a deep understanding of AAOIFI standards and Higher Shari'ah Authority requirements. She is a market-leader for sukuk structuring solutions. Her vast industry experience includes advising on conventional and Islamic debt capital markets, regulatory capital transactions and liability management exercises for sovereigns, government-related entities, supranationals, public and private companies and financial institutions. Prior to joining Simmons & Simmons, Leah worked in one of the world's largest international financial institutions, as the lead lawyer for sukuk and regional debt capital markets.

Simmons & Simmons Middle East LLP

Lee Irvine

Lee is a partner in the Financial Markets group in our Dubai office. He has extensive experience in advising financial institutions and public and private companies on all aspects of conventional and Islamic debt capital markets, equity capital markets and liability management.

Simmons & Simmons Middle East LLP

Leen Zebian

Middle East and Partners Law Firm

Leonie Sellers

Leonie is a dual qualified lawyer specialising in international arbitration, with a particular focus on contentious construction, energy, and infrastructure projects. Based in the Middle East for over 10 years, Leonie has acted for and advised both local and international companies on a range of complex construction and infrastructure disputes and has extensive experience in advancing and defending claims under the ICC, LCIA, DIAC, ADCCAC and UNCITRAL rules, as well as in the enforcement of arbitral awards in the local courts. In addition to her experience in construction disputes, Leonie has broad experience in non-contentious construction, infrastructure, and energy related matters. In addition to her years spent in private practice, Leonie has also spent time as in-house counsel for a leading developer of water and power projects, and most recently as a seconded interim general counsel for a multinational conglomerate. Leonie has been described in Legal 500 EMEA as showcasing a “solid mastery of construction and commercial law” (Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and International Litigation, 2022) and as “excellent, with a strong work ethic, excellent with clients, good on detail and not afraid to be firm with experts and opponents when the occasion calls for it. An excellent lawyer and a star for the future: one to watch” (Construction, 2021).

Fenwick Elliott LLP

Lorna Dean

Associate

Addleshaw Goddard

Louisa Lynch

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Louise Vun

Partner

White & Case LLP

Lowri Llwyd

Partner - Head of Corporate UAE

Addleshaw Goddard

Lucas Pitts

Partner

Addleshaw Goddard

Lucy Melville

Managing Associate

Addleshaw Goddard

Luke Aylett

Partner

Addleshaw Goddard

Luke Garrett

Legal Director

HFW

Luke Johnson

Managing Associate

Addleshaw Goddard

Luke Robottom

Partner

Ashurst LLP

Lynn Ammar

Lynn is a Partner in the Corporate M&A practice, based in the UAE. She has a broad corporate practice, specializing in high-profile M&A and private equity transactions across a diverse range of sectors including technology, healthcare, consumer products, as well as energy and renewables. She regularly advises leading corporate and public sector clients, including major sovereign wealth funds, on complex projects involving both strategic and financial investors. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Lynn was a partner at another top tier international law firm, where she spent 12 years in the firm’s Abu Dhabi and Paris offices. Lynn is a New York qualified lawyer and is fluent in English, Arabic and French.

Clifford Chance

MOHAMED ELSAID

IP consultant and legal counsel

Audiri Vox

Macky O’Sullivan

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Madeleine Mendy

Partner - Head of Family Law Department Areas of Practice: > Divorce and Matrimonial matter in English Law and Sharia Law > Child Protection Process

Bin Sevan Advocates & Legal Consultants

Mahmood Al Mashhadani

Senior Associate

Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants

Mahmoud Ahmed

Legal Director

Fichte & Co.

Mahmoud El Gharabawy

Mahmoud El Gharabawy is a Partner in the Corporate practice at Hadef & Partners. Mahmoud has over 18 years of experience in the legal field acquired in both Egypt and the UAE, during which he focuses mainly on corporate, commercial, capital markets, M&A and finance transactions. He has advised various local and international clients on transaction documents and deals involving private and public companies. He has extensive experience in corporate, merger and acquisitions and capital markets, including restructuring, IPOs, private placement, bonds/sukuk issuance, tender offers and rights issue. Mahmoud obtained his law degree from Alexandria University in 2005, and subsequently an LLM in International Commercial & Business Law from Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana University in 2010. He is member of the Egyptian Bar Association since his graduation on 2005 and is currently admitted before the Egyptian Courts of Appeal.

Hadef & Partners

Mahmoud El-Sayed

Managing Associate

Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP

Mahmoud Hegazy

Mahmoud is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and M&A practice in Abu Dhabi. Mahmoud has over 19 years of experience in the legal field acquired in both Egypt and the UAE. He is regularly involved in corporate structuring and reorganizations matters. Mahmoud has also worked on several transactions for leading and international companies in relation to due diligence reports, as well as negotiating and drafting transactional documentation. Prior to joining Hadef & Partners, Mahmoud worked for a regional law firm. He also worked in the legal department of one of the region’s largest property development companies, based in Dubai. Mahmoud obtained his law degree from Cairo University in 2005. He is a member of the Egyptian Bar Association and admitted before the Egyptian Court of Supreme. Mahmoud is fluent in Arabic and English.

Hadef & Partners

Mahmoud Mostafa

Associate – Courts

Abdulla Alawadi Associates