Lawyers in United Arab Emirates

Adil Shafi

Partner

Anjarwalla Collins & Haidermota (AC&H)

Adjou Ait Ben Idir

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Adnan Doha

Baker McKenzie LLP

Adrian Chadwick

Adrian is a Commercial Dispute Resolution specialist. He has substantial experience handling a wide range of general commercial disputes through litigation, arbitration, or alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Adrian was admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in 1987. In addition, he was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong (1990), as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Australian Capital Territory (1993) and as a Barrister of the High Court of Australia (1993). He has worked in several jurisdictions namely England (1985-89 and 1995-2008), Hong Kong (1989 – 1995) and Dubai, UAE (February 2008 to date). He regularly represents his clients as Counsel in arbitrations governed by various institutional rules including DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ICC, and LMAA. He has also been appointed as a Sole Arbitrator by DIAC for several arbitration matters. He is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). Adrian is registered as a Legal Practitioner of the DIFC Courts with full rights of advocacy and has appeared many times as an Advocate before these Courts and before the Special Tribunal relating to Dubai World and its subsidiaries. He is a current member of the DIFC Courts’ Rules Committee and a former Chair and Deputy Chair of that Committee. He is a lecturer for the DIFC Academy of Law and handled the leading case heard by the DIFC Court on forum non conveniens. He also regularly works with our UAE Advocates in connection with a wide range of disputes before the UAE Courts where the governing law of the dispute is UAE Law as applied in the Emirate of Dubai. Adrian is licensed to advise on UAE Law by the Dubai Government’s Legal Affairs Department. Adrian has developed particular experience handling multi-jurisdiction enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards including directly through the UAE Courts or through the DIFC Court as a conduit court for enforcement in onshore Dubai. He has appeared as an expert witness before Courts and Arbitration Tribunals including, before the Sudanese Courts on enforcement of foreign court judgments in England. For a considerable part of his legal career Adrian specialised in handling shipping and international trade matters in London (with Waterson Hicks, a boutique specialist shipping and international trade practice) and in Hong Kong (with Clyde & Co) and this remains an important part of his workload. He handles both contentious and non-contentious shipping work. As well as dealing with charterparty and bill of lading disputes he has considerable experience of shipping finance, newbuilding and vessel repair and ship sale/purchase transactions.

Hadef & Partners

Adrianus Schoorl

DLA Piper

Aeeda Ibrahim

Senior Associate

Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants

Affan Nawaz Khan

Associate

Audiri Vox

Afif Ammoury

Senior Legal Consultant

HAS Law Firm

Afraa Alhashmi

Advocate

Alsuwaidi & Company

Ahmad Bin Hezeem

Senior Partner

BSA LAW

Ahmad Saleh

Partner, Head of Innovation, Patents & Industrial Property (3IP)

Al Tamimi & Company

Ahmad Sergieh

Ahmad is Head of the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on: corporate structuring and reorganisations such as domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and family wealth succession planning and structuring. Ahmad regularly acts for local and international public and private corporations in connection with their mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, reorganisations and spinoffs. He also played a key role in structuring major family succession and reorganisations for a number of local and expat families in the UAE and GCC. Prior to moving to Dubai, Ahmad practised in the areas of corporate, commercial law and tax for a leading Canadian law firm and the largest institutional investor in Canada. Fluent in English, Arabic and French, Ahmad completed his LLB and a Graduate Degree in Taxation and Commercial Law from Canada.

Hadef & Partners

Ahmad Zaza

Partner

Al Tamimi & Company

Ahmed Al Kotby

Partner

ADG Legal

Ahmed Allouz

Partner, Co-Head of Dispute Resolution

Al Tamimi & Company

Ahmed Brik

Senior Associate

MIO & Partners

Ahmed Butt

Ahmed Butt is a partner in the Middle East Banking and Finance practice. He leads Dentons’ Banking Regulation and Financial Institutions Regulatory practice in the Middle East and also has banking transactional expertise. He has more than 20 years of experience advising on regulatory matters in the financial services sector, including new market entry licensing applications and upgrades, innovative product regulatory analysis (including fintech), cross-border promotion, regulatory investigations and legislative enhancement projects. In addition, Ahmed has a wealth of experience as lead counsel on banking and finance transactions (including conventional and Islamic finance) and structuring banking products. Ahmed focuses primarily on the Saudi Arabia, mainland UAE, DIFC, ADGM and Qatar markets. He is recognized in Legal 500 for Financial Services Regulation (UAE) and has been ranked in Legal 500 (2015-2023) as a Leading Partner for Banking and Finance (Saudi Arabia).

Dentons

Ahmed El Sayed

Global Advocacy and Legal Counsel

Ahmed Eldemerdash

Ahmed is a qualified senior associate in our Dispute Resolution department. He has 25 years of experience advising on a wide and varied range of complex, national and cross-border disputes, including raising and defending civil, banking, commercial, employment, construction, property and corporate claims. His wide-ranging experience has been heavily focused on banking disputes involving bankruptcy, loan recovery, mortgages, and other commercial matters. Ahmed also has extensive experience with high-value employment matters, including defending high-profile companies against major international claims. Ahmed’s experience also includes advising high-profile governmental entities up to the Supreme Court stage, including multiple government and government-owned energy companies. Ahmed has also successfully resolved disputes through miscellaneous means, including settlement agreements and various alternative dispute resolution methods. Ahmed graduated from Zagazig University in Egypt in 2000 with a LLB and was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association and is registered as a lawyer before the Egyptian Cassation Court.

Hadef & Partners

Ahmed Farouk

Senior Associate

Abdulla Alawadi Associates

Ahmed Galadari

Managing Partner Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants

Ahmed Ghazaly

Senior Legal Consultant

Bin Sevan Advocates & Legal Consultants

Ahmed Maali

Ahmed is a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution team in Abu Dhabi. He has 14 years of experience in handling various types of complex commercial and criminal disputes before the UAE Courts. He advises clients on disputes arising out of defaults under facility agreements, enforcement of pledges, tenancy agreements and payment plan contracts. He has extensive experience of handling matters involving disputes between shareholders, enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards before various UAE Courts. This includes disputes involving nullification of arbitral awards and matters requiring enforcement of execution orders in relation to bounced cheques. He also assists clients on various high value claims and matters involving bankruptcy and restructuring arrangements for UAE and international financial institutions. He has been representing clients on obtaining attachment orders and payment orders from the UAE Courts, in addition to handling multi-jurisdictional disputes for international and local clients involving fraud, breach of trust, asset tracing, asset recovery, and obtaining international arrest orders through the local Interpol office in Abu Dhabi. Ahmed obtained his Bachelor of Law from Zagazig University and registered lawyer with the Egyptian bar association. He is fluent in Arabic and English.

Hadef & Partners

Ahmed Mohammed Adel Mohammed Atieh

Founder & Partner at Middle East & Partners - UAE

Middle East and Partners Law Firm