Lawyers in United Arab Emirates

Mary Rose Aguilar

Associate

Audiri Vox

Maryam Hosseini Bonilla

Senior Counsel

AMERELLER

Masood Afridi

Partner

Afridi & Angell Legal Consultants

Matt Hartsuyker

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Matthew Page

Partner

Habib Al Mulla & Partners

Matthew Williams

Partner

Addleshaw Goddard

Matthias Ng

Matthias is a Supervising Associate in our Middle East financial markets and financial services regulatory practices. He has a broad experience advising a variety of financial institutions on DIFC, ADGM and “Onshore UAE” regulatory issues, including banking, market infrastructure and payments related matters. Given the growth of the region's virtual asset sector, he has also assisted a range of virtual asset service providers, such as exchanges, brokers and wallet providers, with navigating the complex virtual asset regulatory space in the UAE and across the GCC. Matthias previously worked in London where he specialised in US, EU and UK sanctions compliance, particularly in relation to Russia and Belarus. He also has a background in EU and UK financial services regulation and completed a six-month secondment with Deutsche Bank’s debt capital markets team.

Simmons & Simmons Middle East LLP

Mayssa Abboud

Senior Associate

Obeid & Medawar Law Firm LLP

Mazin El Amin

Managing Associate

Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP

Meera Shinh

Solicitor (England & Wales)

TWS Legal Consultants

Meghan Devine

Meghan Devine is a senior associate in the Middle East Construction and Dispute Resolution practice. She is a Scottish qualified solicitor and notary public and is a registered practitioner in the DIFC and ADGM courts. Meghan has a broad practice which spans the Middle East. She advises clients on negotiating and drafting contracts, risk management, dispute avoidance and dispute resolution across a number of sectors, including transport infrastructure, hotels and banking. Meghan has particular experience advising on complex, multi-billion US dollar international construction, engineering and infrastructure projects across the region. She regularly acts in arbitrations (both ad hoc and under the major institutional rules) and has experience advising clients on litigation in the DIFC and QFC courts. Meghan also regularly acts as project counsel on large projects across the region, ranging from luxury hotels to major infrastructure projects. Clients have praised her for her pragmatic and commercial approach to mitigating and resolving disputes during the construction phase. Meghan is the only lawyer in the region who sits on the Firm's award-winning Responsible Business team. She focuses on promoting and growing our activities in the region in the environmental, I&D, wellbeing, and pro bono and community spaces. She has developed a reputation for promoting women in the construction and dispute resolution sector in the region and is regularly instructed on pro bono mandates, particularly in relation to the protection of the environment and the promotion of gender equality.

Dentons

Mehtab Kassam

Managing Associate

Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP

Melissa Forbes-Miranda

Partner

Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP

Melissa Mallon

Melissa Mallon is an associate in the Middle East Construction and Dispute Resolution practice. Melissa has experience working on a range of contentious and non-contentious construction matters, including assisting clients with negotiating and drafting contracts, as well as advising clients on claims relating to defective design and/or workmanship, delay and disruption, loss and expense, payment disputes, service level performance obligations and contract interpretation. Her experience spans a range of different sectors including construction, infrastructure and utilities. Melissa has represented clients under all the major arbitration rules including the DIFC-LCIA, DIAC and UNCITRAL, and ad hoc arbitrations. Prior to joining Dentons, Melissa worked as a paralegal at a regional law firm in Dubai where she gained valuable legal skills and knowledge in both construction and infrastructure, and international arbitration practices.

Dentons

Melissa Murray

Melissa is the Head of Country for the UAE, the Head of Intellectual Property for the Middle East, and the global co-head of Franchising for Bird & Bird.

Bird & Bird

Melwyn Dsouza

Partner

MIO & Partners

Menelaus Kouzoupis

Partner

Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP

Mevan Bandara

Partner

Afridi & Angell Legal Consultants

Michael Farchakh

Michael is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution and Engineering & Construction practices in Dubai. Prior to joining Hadef & Partners, Michael practiced with a number of international law firms in Paris, Dubai and Beirut. He has experience working on commercial arbitration and litigation matters throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle-East, particularly in the construction and oil & gas industries. Michael has also advised on issues of public international law and international investment law. Michael holds an LL.B. from the Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth and graduate degrees from the Washington University School of Law, the Sorbonne School of Law and the University of Paris East. He is admitted to the Beirut, New York, and United States Supreme Court Bars and is also a registered legal practitioner with the DIFC Courts. Michael is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

Hadef & Partners

Michael Kortbawi

Partner

BSA LAW

Michael Savva

Watson Farley & Williams

Michael Turrini

Partner

White & Case LLP

Micheal Taylor

Mike Taylor’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public takeovers, and equity capital markets transactions. He has advised on some of the highest profile and innovative M&A and ECM transactions in the Middle East, in particular in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. He has notable experience in the healthcare, infrastructure, real estate, and telecoms sectors.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Mira Abed Al Khalek

Middle East and Partners Law Firm