Lawyers in United Arab Emirates

Ali Alraeesi

Partner

Alsuwaidi & Company

Ali Awad

Partner

Al Tamimi & Company

Ali Bachrouch

Partner, Head of Corporate - Northern Emirates

Al Tamimi & Company

Ali Dakhlallah

Partner and Head of Banking and Financial Disputes

Habib Al Mulla & Partners

Ali Paeivand

Junior Associate - Courts

Abdulla Alawadi Associates

Alia Al Mulla

Partner and Head of Commercial Disputes (and Family Business Restructuring Division)

Habib Al Mulla & Partners

Alicia Ma

Alicia is a senior associate in our Intellectual Property team, based in Dubai (UAE).

Bird & Bird

Almiro Clere

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Alwyn Mathew

Alwyn Mathew is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial practice in Dentons' Abu Dhabi office. He has extensive and in-depth experience in private practice at leading law firms in the UAE and in advising clients on legal aspects in corporate structuring/restructuring, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, liquidations, winding up, deregistration and local corporate regulatory issues. Alwyn has more than 10 years' experience working as a corporate and commercial lawyer, eight of which were spent in the UAE. His experience covers a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including advice on general corporate and commercial matters with a focus on mergers and acquisitions from both buy-side and sell-side. He has advised on sales and acquisitions in a wide range of sectors including medical, financial services, infrastructure, FMCG, insurance, and oil and gas. Alwyn has also advised underwriters on UAE law aspects in relation to the listing of a social media networking app that was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He regularly advises on shareholder disputes and corporate governance matters. Alwyn has previous projects and banking and finance experience in the UAE which involved advising a number of IPPs and IWPPs in the infrastructure sector. He has advised them on a variety of aspects including lender-related advice, procurer-related concerns, shareholder disputes, board-related matters and potential conflicts with operators, as well as with day-to-day matters. Alwyn's previous banking experience included working on high-profile insolvency and restructuring cases in the UAE. He also regularly advised entities practicing or seeking to practice licensed financial activities (being regulated by the Securities and Commodities Authority) in the UAE. Alwyn advises on regulatory matters and banking documentation, and provides legal opinions on a variety of financing matters (including project finance transactions), as well as valuable transactional and advisory services to a number of IWPP and IPP project clients. Alwyn works with teams in both the Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices.

Dentons

Alya Khair

Alya Khair is an associate in the Corporate and Commercial practice in Dentons' Dubai office. Her practice focuses on corporate restructurings, acquisitions, corporate governance and compliance matters in the United Arab Emirates and wider Middle East.

Dentons

Amal Alameri

Advocate

Alsuwaidi & Company

Amer Jamoukha

Senior Counsel

AMERELLER

Amer Obeid

Managing Partner

Obeid & Medawar Law Firm LLP

Amir Ali

Baker McKenzie LLP

Amir Alkhaja

Managing Partner

Habib Al Mulla & Partners

Ammar Haykal

Partner, Head of Office - Northern Emirates

Al Tamimi & Company

Ana Severova

Partner

Devine & Severova

Anastasia Dergacheva

Anastasia Dergacheva counsels major international companies in the telecommunications, media and entertainment, and technology industries. Anastasia’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and technology transfer transactions, as well as licensing, outsourcing, and professional services deals. For more information, view Anastasia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/adergacheva

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Anders Nilsson

Anders is the managing partner for the UAE and head of our corporate and aviation practices in the Middle East.

Bird & Bird

Andrea Tithecott

Partner, Head of Regulatory Practice, Healthcare & Life Sciences

Al Tamimi & Company

Andrew Carter

Partner

Addleshaw Goddard

Andrew Clarke

Andrew Clarke is a counsel in the Energy, Transport and Infrastructure practice in Dentons' Dubai office, having previously worked in Tokyo for a number of years. He has more than 15 years of experience working with a wide range of private sector and government clients on global projects including, in recent years, with a practice based on advising Japanese utilities and trading houses on their global energy investments. His experience spans a range of different sectors including energy transition, renewable energy, power, water, infrastructure, oil and gas, and nuclear. Andrew is regularly ranked by Legal500 in the "Japan, Projects and Energy: International firms and joint ventures" category.

Dentons

Andrew Fawcett

Partner

Al Tamimi & Company

Andrew Gallagher

Andrew Gallagher is an associate in Dentons' Banking and Finance practice in Dubai, with experience in general finance and derivatives. He works on a range of finance matters, including acquisition finance, project finance and general corporate lending. On the derivatives side, Andrew is particularly experienced with finance-linked hedging but also covers a range of product areas such as FX and interest rate swaps and options under the ISDA Master Agreement, stock lending under the Global Master Securities Lending Agreement and repurchase transactions under the Global Master Repurchase Agreement.

Dentons