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Rebecca Kelly

22/02/2023
by Tanya Jain

Rebecca is a Partner, Head of Litigation & Regulatory Middle East, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Dubai, UAE).

Representing both the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and international entities regionally and internationally, Rebecca Kelly, managing partner of the Dubai office, counsels clients on arbitration, litigation, corporate and regulatory compliance, regulatory investigations, occupational safety and health, and white collar crime issues. Her clients include companies involved in the construction, infrastructure, finance, industrial, technology, transport, general trading, education, healthcare, and pharmaceutical sectors. Rebecca is a member of the firm’s crisis management practice and has been based in the UAE since 2005. She is a Solicitor of the High Court of Australia and a Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Law Society of England and Wales.

Rebecca Kelly

22/02/202322/02/2023
by Tanya Jain

Head of Litigation & Regulatory Middle East, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Dubai, UAE)

Rebecca is a member of the firm’s crisis management practice and has been based in the UAE since 2005. She is a Solicitor of the High Court of Australia and a Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Law Society of England and Wales.

Miranda Fisher

26/01/202326/01/2023
by Tanya Jain

Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Miranda Fisher has been a specialist family lawyer for over 20 years. She is Head of the Charles Russell Speechlys Family Law practice and focuses primarily on international clients from across the Middle East, United States of America and East/Western Europe. She is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL). She is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers and the Legal 500, and as one of the Spear’s 500 Top Flight family lawyers in the UK. She won Family Lawyer of the Year at the Spear’s Awards in 2018.

Miranda is experienced in international family law cases involving financial issues and the relocation of/arrangements for children, applications to the English Court for financial settlement following divorce proceedings overseas, and jurisdiction disputes. Her financial cases often involve trusts, inherited wealth, family businesses, offshore asset structures, and the protection of family wealth through pre/post nuptial agreements.

Chambers UK comments that Miranda Fisher is held in high esteem for her specialism in high net worth cases involving the Middle East. One source says Fisher is “incredibly bright; she knows her law, but more importantly she has an incredibly nice manner and can make anyone feel at ease very quickly.”

Nima Moshggoo

23/01/202323/01/2023
by Tanya Jain

Associate, Al Tamimi & Co

Nima has 9 years of experience advising on general corporate matters in the United States and the United Arab Emirates. He has particular expertise in matters related to estate planning and trust structures, in particular wills-related matters, for non-Muslim clients at DIFC.

Nima also specializes on US Immigration laws and regulations.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi he was working for an immigration law firm in New York City for over 3 years and before that he was working for a general practice law firm in Dubai advising and attending clients in corporate matters as a whole, as well as all aspects of DIFC Wills and Probate. Nima also assisted the firm in representing clients in arbitration and litigation matters before DIFC courts. Nima is a Will practitioner on the DIFC Wills Draftsmen Register.

Izabella Szadkowska

23/01/202323/01/2023
by Tanya Jain

Partner, Al Tamimi & Co

Izabella is a Partner in the Corporate Structuring team and specialises in corporate and commercial work, particularly in foreign investment regime, cross-border corporate and regulatory structure design and implementation, capital restructuring work and trust structures advice and assistance.

Izabella’s areas of practice also include economic substance, ultimate/ real beneficial ownership assessment and advice, business formation and corporate services under law of the Dubai International Financial Centre. Her expertise also extends to providing day-to-day legal advice on matters of corporate commercial nature to corporate clients, particularly family businesses, as well as M&A transactions assistance and equity capital markets.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi, Izabella trained at Linklaters LLP and practiced at Clifford Chance LLP and White & Case LLP. She combines private practice and in-house experience, having acted as Head of Group Legal Department for a major UAE conglomerate, Al Rostamani Group.

Chatura Randeniya

09/01/2023
by Tanya Jain

Partner, Afridi & Angell

Chatura is a partner in the dispute resolution practice of Afridi & Angell. He is experienced in both institutional (i.e. DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ADCCAC, ICC) and ad hoc arbitrations seated in civil and common law jurisdictions. In addition to representing clients in arbitration, he also sits as an arbitrator.

In litigation, Chatura works with local advocates on matters before the UAE Federal Courts, including the Federal Supreme Court in matters of national security.

Chatura regularly acts for clients in high value disputes in construction, maritime and shipping, banking, and employment, as well as in complex disputes relating to commercial transactions. Most of his work has a strong cross-border element. He is a regular speaker at workshops and conferences on dispute resolution in the UAE and is a regular contributor to publications on arbitration and dispute resolution in the UAE.

He has been practising in the UAE since 2008, shortly after completing his postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School under a Fulbright Scholarship. Prior to joining Afridi & Angell in 2008, Chatura was in the private bar of Sri Lanka practicing in the Law Chambers of Dr Harsha Cabral, President’s Counsel. He was also a visiting lecturer in law at the Faculties of Law and Management at the University of Colombo.

Chatura is recommended and ranked as a practitioner in dispute resolution in Chambers Global and Legal 500 EMEA, and recognized as a leading practitioner in the MENA region by Asian Legal Business (a Thompson Reuters company).

Wafa Al-Shuaibi

29/11/2022
by Benjamin Filaferro

Senior Associate, Dentons

WAFA AL-SHUAIBI is a senior associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons’ Muscat office. She has over ten years of experience working on a wide range of litigation and dispute resolution matters, including advising clients on disputes, arbitrations and commercial issues. She is qualified to appear before the primary and appeal courts of Oman.

Her experience spreads across various sectors, including governments, financial institutions, construction, and telecoms. Wafa has delivered pro bono work with Outward Bound Oman. Wafa is bilingual and can draft and negotiate in Arabic and English.

Kerem Alev

29/11/2022
by Benjamin Filaferro

Senior Associate, S & A Law Firm

KEREM ALEV is a Senior Associate at S & A Law Firm. He is dual-qualified as a Barrister and a Solicitor in England & Wales, having first qualified as a Solicitor in 2013. He brings comprehensive and all-around experience in both dispute resolution and corporate transactions.

He has been an advocate in cases involving commercial, corporate and construction disputes. He has regularly attended Court as the advocate for multiple-day trials, made applications of all forms, including injunctions, and attendances at mediations and international arbitrations. He has also advised on corporate transactions and was previously retained as General Counsel to an international group. He led the group on its corporate actions, delisting requirements with the London Stock Exchange and restructuring.

Before moving to Oman to join S & A Law Firm, Kerem lived in London. He worked as a Barrister at a global law firm representing clients in commercial, insolvency and insurance (professional indemnity and public liability) disputes.

He is bilingual and fluent in both English and Turkish. He has been a non-executive Board Member of the British Turkish Lawyers Association since 2015.

Jamie Kellick

29/11/2022
by Benjamin Filaferro

Partner, Nasser Al Shamli, Advocates & Legal Consultants in association with Kennedys

JAMIE KELLICK is a commercial dispute resolution and regulatory specialist. Experienced in both contentious and non-contentious commercial and regulatory matters, Jamie’s practice encompasses the GCC market and broader region.

He has advised corporate clients in Oman, victims of cyber fraud, and represented them before the Special Economic Crimes Unit of the Royal Oman Police (ROP) when reporting such incidents and responding to their ongoing enquiries and provision of evidence obligations under relevant Omani legislation.

Jamie is currently advising corporate client instructions, assessing their compliance readiness for the Oman Personal Data Protection Law, which comes into force in February 2023.

Sara Khoja

19/08/202206/09/2022
by Tanya Jain

Partner, Employment, Clyde & Co (Dubai, UAE)

Sara joined the Clyde & Co Dubai office in January 2008 establishing the employment team. She is experienced in advising multinational clients and large regional conglomerates on their MEA regional employment issues (particularly in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), advising on multi-jurisdictional projects such as restructures, large scale implementation of new employment policies and frameworks as well as large corporate reorganisations and integration projects following a merger or acquisition.

She advises extensively on Saudisation and other workforce nationalisation initiatives and, regulatory compliance. Her practice also includes advising on employee mobility and operating corporate hubs in the context of MEA wide operations (including secondments into Africa).

Sara’s publications include UAE and KSA chapters for Kluwer International’s Labour and Employment Compliance Handbook and, Corporate Immigration (UAE Chapter). She provides extensive training for managers and HR personnel directly for clients and also through a number of training organisations such as CIPD and JSB.