Lawyers in United Arab Emirates

Cameron Cuffe

Partner

Ashurst LLP

Carlo Pianese

Partner

Tribonian Law Advisors

Carolina Gamba Pereira

Associate

ADG Legal

Catherine Beckett

Catherine is a senior legal consultant in the UAE Corporate & Commercial team. She has experience in general corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, takeovers and corporate finance. Catherine has previously been recognised by Chambers Global, noting that she is an "excellent lawyer - she approaches things in a practical and commercial fashion and understands where [clients] are coming from".

Dentons

Catriona McDevitt

Catriona is a Partner and Head of our Banking & Finance practice. Catriona acts for both lenders and borrowers and advises on financial regulatory matters, project finance, investment grade syndicated financings, real estate and structured finance. Based in the UAE since 2007, Catriona has extensive regional expertise and brings a commercially driven, pragmatic approach when advising her clients. Catriona is highly sought after for her breadth of English law and UAE law banking expertise and regularly acts for international and regional clients in advising on financial regulatory and digital asset issues in the UAE. Catriona has published extensively on the continually evolving UAE financial regulatory landscape. Catriona also has in-depth in-house experience gained from her previous role as Head of Legal for Wholesale Banking at one of the largest banks in the UAE and is able to bring this combined private practice and in-house expertise, together with her English law and UAE law background, in providing a holistic view and “seeing both sides of the table” when advising clients on complex financings. Prior to coming to the UAE, Catriona worked in London at a magic circle law firm.

Hadef & Partners

Chakrapani Bodapati

Legal Director

Fichte & Co.

Charbel Fadel

Partner and Head of Corporate & Commercial Department

Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants

Charbel Moussa

Junior Associate

Obeid & Medawar Law Firm LLP

Charles Cockrell

Partner

HFW

Charles Laubach

Partner

Afridi & Angell Legal Consultants

Charlotte Bijlani

Charlotte is an experienced dispute resolution lawyer with full rights of audience before both the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) courts and the higher courts of England and Wales. Charlotte’s practice extends to litigation, international arbitration, expert determination and mediation, as well as advisory work on litigation risk and avoidance. She regularly acts for employers, contractors and funders in construction and engineering disputes across the Middle East, as well as major corporates, developers, investors, financial institutions and high net worth individuals in all types of contentious matters both regionally and in the UK. Charlotte is recognised as a leading dispute resolution and international arbitration lawyer in the UAE by The Legal 500 EMEA describing her as a “superb litigator”, an “outstanding operator”, “strategically-minded” and says that she provides “an unrivalled combination of dedication and shrewdness”.

Watson Farley & Williams

Charlotte Knight

Watson Farley & Williams

Chatura Randeniya

Partner

Afridi & Angell Legal Consultants

Chaya Gupta

Chaya is a senior associate in the Dubai office with experience advising on conventional and Islamic banking and finance transactions across the Middle East and in the United Kingdom. Chaya advises both borrowers and lenders on conventional and Islamic finance transactions across a variety of sectors, with clients based in both the MEA region and the United Kingdom, and has background experience in construction, corporate and M&A matters. Chaya takes a keen interest in pro bono work and is a strong supporter of diversity and inclusion in the Firm. She also sits on the management board of BVL (formerly, Big Voice London), a London-based legal youth and social mobility charity, which seeks to give young people from non-fee paying schools a voice in law and legal policy.

Baker McKenzie LLP

Chinar Zaidi

Managing Associate

Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP

Chirag Chhabra

Associate

HAS Law Firm

Chirag Mittal

Senior Associate

ADG Legal

Chris Bailey-Gibbs

Chris is a Partner and heads the Employment team in Dubai. He has 14 years’ experience advising clients in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters. He has expertise in resolving matters of strategic importance and supporting clients through every step, building lasting relationships. Chris has broad experience in many sectors including transport, retail, private equity, construction, manufacturing, food, energy and finance. His practice also covers HR advice, workplace investigations, business protection, restructuring programs and M&A. Prior to joining Hadef & Partners, Chris worked at an international law firm in the UK, working with a range of national and international clients. His practice often involves partnering with other disciplines, such as real estate, corporate, tax and regulatory.

Hadef & Partners

Chris Macbeth

Chris is a partner and co-head of our global sovereign wealth fund client group. He is a skilled M&A and private equity/funds lawyer who has established an exceptionally strong reputation among sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, and corporate clients, which have consistently turned to him for their most complex, highest profile matters in the Middle East and beyond. Chris has advised on investments in a variety of sectors, cross-border M&A and JVs and private equity and funds matters, including LP fund investments, co-investments, and direct investments (including VC deals and infrastructure investments), across a wide range of geographies (particularly the US, LatAm, Europe as well as almost all MENA countries). Chris joined the firm in 2006 and has been focused on deals for MENA clients and in the MENA region throughout the past two decades, initially from London and then from the UAE, having relocated to help found Cleary’s Abu Dhabi office (the hub of our MENA practice) in 2012.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Chris Walters

Partner, Head of Middle East Corporate, Dubai

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Christoph Keimer

Managing Partner in Dubai Partner at Dortmund and Hamburg offices

SCHLÜTER GRAF Legal Consultants

Christopher Cross

Partner, Dubai

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Christopher Gibson

Associate

ADG Legal

Christopher Gunson

Partner

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