• UK qualified Solicitor and a Part I and Part II DIFC Courts Registered Practitioner with over 10 years' experience in dealing with issues relating to the laws of England and Wales, the laws of the DIFC and UAE Federal laws.
• Advise and act for local and international companies, as well as charitable organisations, in complex litigation, and have extensive experience as a litigator in the UK, DIFC, and ADGM Courts.
• Broad commercial and financial dispute practice, with a specialist focus on agreements arising out of property, finance, banking, insurance and shareholder disputes, as well as wider fraud.
• Main areas of expertise are construction and financial mis-selling disputes with regulatory aspects before the DIFC Courts, where I have acted for clients in some of the most high profile and complex regulatory claims in Dubai, brought by the DFSA, before the FMT.
• Manage a team who have surpassed all financial targets for 2022, and have a track record of winning cases in the DIFC Courts and international Arbitrations, and achieving successful results against top tier competitor law firms.
• Substantial experience before Arbitral Tribunals and the Courts of offshore jurisdictions, in particular the DIFC, ADGM and DWT Courts, and provide assistance to our Litigation Team in Dubai Court cases.
• Deal with issues as to applicable law, jurisdiction and cross border enforcement, which includes the handling of multi-jurisdiction enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards.
• Represent clients in arbitrations governed by various institutional rules including the LCIA, DIAC, UNCITRAL and the ICC, and have represented several high net worth individuals in employment claims before the DIFC Courts and in Employment Tribunal cases in the UK.
• Previously at Clyde & Co LLP, I handled large loss claims for international blue-chip clients in multi-party and cross-jurisdictional disputes before the Commercial Court and Chancery Division of the High Court.
Areas of Expertise:
• Corporate and Commercial Disputes
• Civil Fraud
• Construction Disputes
• Banking Disputes
• Intellectual Property Disputes
• Maritime Disputes
• Property Disputes
• Professional Negligence
• Regulatory Disputes
• Shareholder Disputes
