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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.

Ton van Doremalen

03/06/2022
by Benjamin Filaferro

Partner, Head of Tax, Middle East | DLA Piper

Ton advises both local and international clients in relation to operating their businesses, cross-border investments and activities in a tax efficient and compliant manner.

Ton’s practice encompasses advice on cross-border tax structuring and tax advice relating to M&A transactions for clients such as Gulf-based corporates, sovereign wealth funds, private equity investors, high net worth individuals and family offices.

Ton also advises corporate clients from Europe, North America and Asia on their inbound Middle East inbound transactions and investments, projects and company set-ups.

From a local business perspective, Ton is involved in providing tax advice relating to the introduction of VAT in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

He has over 16 years of experience focusing on tax structuring involving jurisdictions such as the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the UK and the UAE.

William Reichert

20/05/2022
by Benjamin Filaferro

Partner and Head of Corporate, Middle East at Charles Russell Speechlys

William has more than 20 years of experience advising on matters ranging from seed series investments for start-ups, to complex, multi-billion dollar matters across numerous jurisdictions. His experience includes advising on M&A, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital transactions, restructurings and compliance matters.

William’s client base is very diverse and includes local and international clients across a broad range of industry sectors with a particular focus on technology, healthcare, retail, energy and real estate. He is regularly invited to speak at industry and legal events related to these sectors and various other areas.

Prior to moving to the Middle East in 2015, William was based in Moscow, Russia for ten years where he was a founding partner and head of the office of a major international firm. During his tenure in Russia, William advised on some of the largest and most complex M&A, joint venture and private equity investments and transactions in the Russian market. His international experience also includes work in Brussels, Belgium and Paris, France.

William is a dual-qualified lawyer admitted in Minnesota, USA and as a Solicitor, England and Wales. He speaks English, Russian, French and Spanish.

Adam Wolstenholme

05/04/202205/04/2022
by Benjamin Filaferro

Managing Associate, Simmons & Simmons

Adam specialises in advising clients on complex international, cross-border and sensitive areas of law, with a particular emphasis on financial crime and financial services regulatory matters.

Adam is a managing associate in the Financial Markets practice group based in Dubai. Adam joined us in February 2020 having worked in the region for the preceding three years. He has gained a strong background in the local and regional framework and practicalities that are vital to understanding the international and domestic sensitivities in the Middle East. He provides current and pragmatic advice on the region’s anti-money laundering legislation, boycott provisions, anti-bribery legislation, and sanctions regimes.

Prior to working in the Middle East, he was a barrister in London where his practice entailed both defence and prosecution work, with a special emphasis on financial crime matters, including advisory and representation instructions on the proceeds of crime, money laundering, bribery and extradition. During his work at the self-employed bar, he was also seconded to the Financial Conduct Authority in London, whereby he was able to amass practical experience of complex regulatory investigations.

Nina Fischer

05/04/2022
by Benjamin Filaferro

Supervising Associate, Simmons & Simmons

Nina is a Supervising Associate in the firm’s Middle East financial markets and financial services regulatory practices. She has experience advising leading asset managers on the provision of cross-border financial services across the GCC as well as advising on general DIFC regulatory matters. Nina is also part of the firm’s FinTech practice and advises on the application of the regulatory framework in the nascent FinTech space.

Nina’s previous experience includes advising on a range of transactional and behavioural antitrust cases. This includes advising on multi-jurisdictional merger control requirements in global merger and acquisition transactions and antitrust investigations by the European Commission and the UK regulator. Nina also assisted in advising on transactions and regulatory requirements in the areas of debt capital markets and structured finance. She previously worked in London and Hong Kong.

Most recently Nina spent a year on secondment at an international payment services provider in London advising on a range of regulatory and antitrust matters. In particular, she advised different lines of business on their compliance with payment services regulation.