Bin Sevan Advocates & Legal Consultants — United Arab Emirates

About

The firm: Bin Sevan Advocates and Legal Consultancy is a full-service boutique law firm based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The firm’s special focus is real estate and construction law, and it boasts gold standard expertise when it comes to providing advice and representation in domestic and international arbitration, and civil and criminal litigation matters. Illustrating this is the fact the firm’s clientele are 25 of the UAE’s major real estate developers, who between them handle projects worth a combined $40bn. When it comes to real estate, the monetary value of the matters entrusted to Bin Sevan Advocates in litigation and arbitration easily exceeds $1bn. Bin Sevan Advocates emphasises the fact that it provides legal services and a depth of expertise in all areas of legal practice. The firm is particularly highly reputed internationally for providing a wide array of corporate and consultancy services, contract drafting and negotiations for foreign direct investments, equity, securities, finance and banking commercial matters (especially in the Middle East and South-East Asia). A key reason the firm enjoys the reputation it does among its clients, peers and the wider business community in the region is its thorough familiarity with the way local and regional markets operate, allowing it to provide (above all) bespoke, tailor-made solutions. These results are always commercially sound, innovative, pragmatic and practical. Bin Sevan Advocates & Legal Consultancy team members possess rights of audience and representation at all levels of UAE courts and tribunals. Comprising distinguished and experienced advocates and legal consultants, each with extensive experience in the firm’s practice areas, the team is a force to be reckoned with. The durable relationships the firm has with its clientele are evidence of the fact that client servicing excellence is another hallmark of Bin Sevan. Accessibility, transparency and integrity facilitate a deep and objective understanding of each client’s particular needs, and hence the design and execution of solid and bespoke solutions. Everything the firm does originates from a sound underlying philosophy: a philosophy that focuses on results as the over-arching guiding principle when serving its distinguished clientele. ### Areas of practice Retainers: annual retainer service – based on the client’s specific needs when it comes to legal services and representation. Project basis: a complete range of legal professional services, including due diligence, contract drafting and legal advice, business set-ups and consultancy, as well as advice on all areas of UAE and international law. Dispute resolution service: negotiations of amicable settlements; litigation advocacy and legal representation in the UAE courts and tribunals; advocacy and legal representation in domestic and international commercial arbitration. Arbitration awards ratification and enforcement: legal representation in domestic and foreign commercial arbitration awards ratification and enforcement in UAE courts. Enforcement of UAE court judgments: legal representation in enforcement of UAE court judgment matters. ### Languages - Arabic - English - Hindi - Romanian - Russian - Spanish - Urdu - Filipino/Tagalog - French

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Lawyers in this office

Ahmed Ghazaly

Senior Legal Consultant · Litigation

Firas Alchoufi

Managing Partner- Areas of Practice: Real Estate, Construction Law, Arbitration · Real Estate

Ghazi Ibrahim Binsaifan

Founder - Areas of Practice: Criminal, Employment, Family Law · Criminal Law

Madeleine Mendy

Partner - Head of Family Law Department Areas of Practice: > Divorce and Matrimonial matter in English Law and Sharia Law > Child Protection Process · Family Law

Othmane Saadani

Partner - Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Department · International Arbitration

Raed Kanj

Partner - Head of Litigation · Litigation

Ramadan Nagy

Mr. Ramadan Nagy is a Senior Legal Consultant at Bin Sevan Advocates & Legal Consultants · Litigation

Rita Kaufmann

Partner - Head of Corporate · Corporate / M&A

Safwan Mounzer

Safwan is an accomplished litigator having an extensive experience in all phases of litigation and, over the course of his career, has successfully represented a diverse clientele in a broad range of complex family law, labour, real estate litigation, construction and criminal law. · Litigation

Zeina Mouannes

Partner - Corporate · Corporate / M&A