Lawyers in United Arab Emirates

Nik Colbridge

Nik Colbridge is a partner in the Firms' Corporate practice and is based in Dubai. His practice focuses on international financing transactions principally within the capital markets. He represents corporate issuers and financial institutions in public and private international equity, securities offerings and joint ventures. Nik also advises on companies on restructurings (including redomiciliations) and continuing obligations within listing regimes. Nik has represented many issuers, including major companies from emerging and developing markets, and their financial advisors and underwriters, in RegS/Rule 144A IPOs, follow-on offerings, privatisations and London Stock Exchange listings. Nik is recognized by the Legal 500, Chambers and IFLR1000.

Dentons

Nikhil Ramdev

Principal Associate

MRP Advisory LLC

Nikolai Budnetskii

Of Counsel

ADG Legal

Nina Fischer

Nina is a Managing Associate in the firm’s Middle East financial markets and financial services regulatory practices. She has experience advising leading asset managers on the provision of cross-border financial services across the GCC as well as advising on general DIFC regulatory matters. Nina is also part of the firm’s FinTech practice and advises on the application of the regulatory framework in the nascent FinTech space. Nina’s previous experience includes advising on a range of transactional and behavioural antitrust cases. This includes advising on multi-jurisdictional merger control requirements in global merger and acquisition transactions and antitrust investigations by the European Commission and the UK regulator. Nina also assisted in advising on transactions and regulatory requirements in the areas of debt capital markets and structured finance. She previously worked in London and Hong Kong. Most recently Nina spent a year on secondment at an international payment services provider in London advising on a range of regulatory and antitrust matters. In particular, she advised different lines of business on their compliance with payment services regulation.

Simmons & Simmons Middle East LLP

Nisha Gupta

Nisha is an associate in Dentons' Abu Dhabi office and a member of the Projects practice. She has experience advising sponsors, lenders and developers on the structuring, development and financing of major energy, infrastructure and transport projects across the Middle East. Her practice covers a broad range of sectors, including renewable and conventional energy (solar, wind, waste-to-energy and cogeneration), district cooling, waste treatment, oil and gas, and social infrastructure.

Dentons

Nita Maru

Managing Partner & Solicitor

TWS Legal Consultants

Nour Souaiby

Associate

Obeid & Medawar Law Firm LLP

Obaid Basit

Associate

MIO & Partners

Oliver Simpson

Oliver is a Partner in Maples and Calder’s Corporate and Funds & Investment Management teams in the Maples Group’s Dubai office. He handles a broad range of Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands corporate work, including equity raisings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity transactions and fund investments. He frequently advises emerging and growth companies, entrepreneurs, sovereign wealth funds, hotel and resort owners and real estate developers. Oliver primarily advises clients in the UAE, across the Middle East and in North Africa.

Maples Group

Oliver Stevens

Partner - Head of Corporate Middle East

Addleshaw Goddard

Omar Abdulaziz Al Omar

Founding Partner

OGH Legal

Omar Al Heloo

Omar is a sought-after UAE advocate. He represents clients in courts of all levels, and handles complex domestic and cross-border commercial and civil disputes where his wealth of experience in the procedures of UAE courts and depth of knowledge of UAE laws is highly valued by the firm's clients. Omar acts as UAE local counsel in domestic and international litigation and arbitration, including working closely with Hadef & Partners’ Engineering & Construction team representing and acting for various construction industry members. As an UAE advocate, Omar has vast experience in advising corporates and individuals on business fraud-related matters and white-collar crimes both domestically and internationally. He has expertise in both criminal and civil mutual legal assistance and also extradition. Omar frequently delivers mandatory and accredited legal training sessions as part of the Dubai Legal Affairs Department’s CLPD programme. He is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), the Society of Construction Law (SCL) and the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) of which he is the national representative in the UAE. He graduated with honors from the College of Shari’a & Law of the UAE University and obtained his LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Leicester. Prior joining Hadef & Partners Omar trained with the Dubai Courts and the Dubai Public Prosecution.

Hadef & Partners

Omar AlSatari

Senior Legal Consultant

HAS Law Firm

Omar Obeidat

Partner, Head of Competition and Intellectual Property

Al Tamimi & Company

Omar Omar

Partner, Head of Transport & Insurance

Al Tamimi & Company

Orlando Vidal

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Osama Audi

Osama Audi leads Baker McKenzie’s Corporate practice in the UAE. He focuses on M&A, private equity, venture capital and investment funds matters. Recognized for his commercial-oriented approach to transactions and his work ethic, he represents sovereign wealth funds, private equity and venture capital funds, public and private technology and growth companies, family offices and multinationals. Osama is admitted to the New York Bar and has worked in New York, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Osama is ranked by Chambers Global 2024 as a leading individual for Corporate/M&A: Abu Dhabi based. Chambers Global 2024 identifies Osama as “an exceptionally bright, measured and effective M&A counsel” and further adds "he is responsive and commercially savvy". Moreover from 2018 to the most recent 2024 rankings, Osama has been and continues to be recognized by Legal500 and IFLR for his M&A, private equity and venture capital work. Most recently as a "Leading Individual" by Legal500 and "Highly Regarded" by IFLR. He is also recognized by Legal500 for his work in the oil & gas and real estate sectors and by IFLR for his work in the food & beverage sector. Osama advises clients on M&A and private equity transactions in the Middle East, Africa and South and Southeast Asia in sectors such as energy (with a focus on renewable energy) and infrastructure, oil & gas, technology and e-commerce, consumer goods and retail, healthcare and life-sciences, education, financial services, logistics and transport and real estate, hospitality and leisure. In addition, Osama regularly advises on transactions relating to technology and growth companies at all stages of their development and is recognized by Chambers Global 2024 for his Venture Capital & Emerging Companies work. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Osama was a partner in a US law firm's M&A and private equity practice and, before that, Osama worked in a Magic Circle law firm's Dubai and Riyadh offices. Osama received his JD from the Pennsylvania State University which he attended on a full-academic Deans Scholarship.

Baker McKenzie LLP

Othmane Saadani

Partner - Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Department

Bin Sevan Advocates & Legal Consultants

Owen Afriye

Owen advises clients on complex contracts, transactions and projects in the technology, digital and data space. Owen has specialist expertise navigating cross-border data matters involving emerging data privacy, cybersecurity and cloud computing regulations, and he has successfully led several market-leading organisations in regulated sectors with strategic compliance projects in this domain. He is also a regular author and contributor on data privacy matters for renowned publications such as DataGuidance and Thomson Reuters.

Simmons & Simmons Middle East LLP

Owen Richards

Partner

Addleshaw Goddard

Pabitra Dutta

Senior Associate

Fichte & Co.

Pallavi Agrawalla

Associate

MRP Advisory LLC

Pardeep Jagpal

Pardeep is a senior associate in the Dubai Commercial and Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) team, advising clients on a wide range of commercial agreements and projects. She has experience providing commercial and strategic advice to a number of organizations across a range of sectors, including technology, retail, and oil and gas, as well as, most recently, the public sector. She has worked on a variety of multinational commercial matters providing IT and commercial contract support to leading organizations. This work builds on her in-house experience working as Legal and Compliance Counsel for a tier 1 automotive supplier prior to joining Dentons.

Dentons

Patric Mc Gonigal

Global Advocacy and Legal Counsel