Lawyers in United Arab Emirates

Mahmoud Shahawy

Associate

SCHLÜTER GRAF Legal Consultants

Mahnoor Latif

Mahnoor Latif is an associate in the Banking and Finance practice, based in Dentons’ Dubai office. She advises on cross-border transactions across the UAE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with experience in corporate finance, project finance, Islamic finance, and general banking and finance matters. Mahnoor advises clients throughout the full lifecycle of transactions, including structuring and regulatory considerations, drafting and negotiating finance and security documentation, liaising with counterparties and local counsel, coordinating conditions precedent and post-completion requirements, and handling security registrations. Her work spans a broad range of international and regional matters.

Dentons

Malek Al Rifai

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Malvika Arora

Associate

MRP Advisory LLC

Mamoon Khan

Partner

Al Tamimi & Company

Manek Palekar

Principal partner

MIO & Partners

Manik Verma

Partner

Fichte & Co.

Manish Narayan

Partner

Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants

Manuela Belmontes

Manuela is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate and Finance teams in the Maples Group's Dubai office. Manuela's main areas of practice are international capital markets and finance (principally aircraft finance, Islamic finance, structured finance and banking). She has worked on a number of notable sukuk transactions and other Islamic compliant financings, conventional debt offerings and debt issuance programmes as well as bespoke securitisations for clients based in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Manuela regularly advises on aircraft finance transactions for aircraft carriers and leasing companies in the Middle East. Manuela also has broad experience in the establishment and maintenance of a variety of Cayman Islands investment structures and funds, and regularly advises on general corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and joint venture arrangements.

Maples Group

Marc Abdessater

Junior Associate

Abdulla Alawadi Associates

Marc Hamilton

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Marcin Zawadzki

Local Partner, Capital Solutions and Structured Private Credit

White & Case LLP

Marco De Leo

Marco De Leo specialises in corporate law with focus on the establishment/break-up of joint ventures, mergers, demergers and capital transactions, extraordinary financing transactions and acquisitions. He manages a comprehensive portfolio of clients, which comprises foreign and local players including large multi-national companies and family conglomerates. He takes the lead in coordinating all matters managed from the Dubai office and involves other firm’s offices and law firms in Africa and the Middle East to provide exceptional service standards for both local and cross-border matters. He is managing partner of BonelliErede Middle East LLP and member of the Luxury and Shipping, Transport & Logistics Focus Teams.

BonelliErede

Marcus Booth

Partner

White & Case LLP

Maria Lezala

Maria is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Dubai, having practiced in the UAE for over 8 years. She has a wide ranging experience of general commercial litigation in the South African Courts, local UAE Courts, DIFC Courts, the ADGM Courts and in arbitration matters under the rules of the major arbitral institutions such the LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC and the ICC. Maria has recently been appointed by DIAC as an arbitrator in an ongoing arbitration case. Maria has acted for major international corporations, airlines, banks and high net worth individuals, on a variety of complex, high value disputes (often with multi-jurisdictional implications), including but not limited to: real estate disputes, insurance disputes, shareholder disputes, commercial agency disputes, information technology disputes, trade finance disputes and disputes between hotel owners and hotel operators. Maria also regularly advises on: (i) multi-jurisdictional enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards through the UAE Courts and through the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts in the UAE and (ii) asset recovery, such as asset tracing and recovery of assets.

Hadef & Partners

Mariam Sabet

Partner

Al Tamimi & Company

Mark Brown

Partner, Head of Projects

Al Tamimi & Company

Mark Lakin

Partner

Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP

Mark Russell

Mark is a leading energy and chemicals sector specialist with over 20 years’ experience of advising clients on some of the world’s most innovative, complex, sensitive and sizeable projects and transactions. With industry leading expertise in no- and low-carbon products and projects, as well as across the entire conventional energy and chemicals value chain, in both developed and emerging markets, his practice spans all areas of transactional activity in the energy sector, including project development and financing, joint venturing and M&A, commercial contracts and energy and commodities trading.

Linklaters

Marlene Tayah

Marlene Tayah is a Junior Associate at Obeid & Medawar Law Firm LLP.

Obeid & Medawar Law Firm LLP

Marta Almeida

DLA Piper

Martin Hunt

Partner

King & Spalding

Marwa Al Mashgouni

Associate

ADG Legal

Marwan Abdel Hamid

Marwan is a Partner in the corporate team in Dubai. He is regularly involved in complex corporate structuring and reorganisations matters as well as advising a number of local and expat families in the UAE and GCC. Marwan currently advises on a range of corporate structuring, family wealth planning, advisory and regulatory matters as well as Capital Markets and Initial Public Offering transactions. Marwan holds a Masters in International and European Business Law from Paris 1 University – Panthéon-Sorbonne in which he was also enrolled for his bachelor degree. Marwan has completed a Post Graduate Program in International and Comparative Law from Indiana University.

Hadef & Partners