THOMAS WIGLEY is the Resident Managing Partner in Trowers & Hamlins’ Oman office and joined the firm in 2004. Tom specialises in the energy sector and leads the firm’s Energy and Natural Resources team. He specifically works on power generation and transmission, water and infrastructure development projects, along with oil and gas work.
Mathilde advises French and international groups on a wide range of employment issues in France: she partners with clients on the implementation of businesses in France; she assists with matters of collective negotiations with the works council and the unions on various matters (working time, compensation, change of collective bargaining agreement, etc.); she specializes in restructuring operations in France, specifically related to site closures, site transfers and redundancy plans; she is experienced in complex employment-related litigation.
Babita Ambekar has over twenty years of experience in Asia Pacific having worked in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. She regularly handles multi-jurisdictional assignments across Asia in relation to employment matters and has advised on aspects relating to the hiring of contract staff, restructuring-related layoffs, employment disputes, termination and dismissals, employment policies and procedures and employee share option plans.
Babita has been recognised by clients as a “seasoned, mature and capable lawyer [who is] dependable, effective and quick to respond”. She is conversant in a number of Asian languages and has on-the-ground experience in Singapore, India, Japan, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Taiwan, Korea, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Ingrid is a solicitor the London employment team at DWF Law advising on a range of contentious and non-contentious matters. She regularly advises clients on various employment issues including contracts, policies and procedures, redundancy processes, TUPE in the context of business transfers and outsourcing and grievance and disciplinary issues. Ingrid also has expertise in advising on projects involving corporate restructuring, reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions.
Ingrid graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a First Class Honours degree in Law. Ingrid was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2014 and has dual qualification as a solicitor and practising certificates in both England and Northern Ireland. Ingrid sits as a committee member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) international committee. Ingrid is regularly instructed by US clients who are establishing or have an existing presence in the UK.
Principal Practice Areas: Civil, Criminal, Environmental, Labour and Commercial.
Eleanor has joined the firm in April 2018 as a Solicitor. She is a French-Australian solicitor, holding a BA/LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Masters in International Relations from the esteemed Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
Eleanor was admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia) in 2013, having already acted as a trainee at Minter Ellison (Melbourne, Australia), a volunteer legal adviser at Fitzroy Legal Service (Melbourne, Australia), an intern on the Karadzic trial at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague, Netherlands) and a paralegal at Dentons Paris (formerly Salans & Associates) in their international arbitration group.
After admission she became a Judge’s Associate in Australia for both Civil and Criminal jurisdictions, before moving back to Paris in 2015 to work as a consultant for UNESCO.
She brings to Zu’bi & Partners both international and local experience, in public and private sectors, in international law, labour law, commercial arbitration, criminal law, legal research, drafting legal agreements, drafting judgments, partnerships, policy research, diplomacy, project development and strategy.
Principal Practice Areas: Corporate & Commercial, Litigation
Noor joined Zu’bi and Partners in 2014 and holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from SOAS, University of London. She has experience in liquidation procedures, bond and sukuk issuances, medical device legislation, civil aviation law, commercial companies’ law, copyright law, Central Bank of Bahrain law, labour law and telecommunications law. Noor has contributed articles to Oxford Business Group’s The Report, The World Bank’s Doing Business series and Clifford Chance’s MENA Women and Work report, The Oath and LexisNexis.
Most recently, Noor has contributed to the Bahrain section of Herbert Smith Freehills’ Middle East Anti-Bribery and Corruption Regulations Legal Guide for 2018 and the Bahrain section of The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law Report for 2018.
Recent Assignments
Talal He also serves on the Board of Middle East Payment Services (MEPS) in Amman, Jordan and on the advisory board of the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy. He also co-founded Jibrel Network, a blockchain development company based in Zug, Switzerland. Prior to crypto,Talal worked in financial and supply chain consulting services at PwC as well as managing a private investment fund in Saudi Arabia. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (Economics Minor) from Purdue University, IN, USA.
Mathieu has acquired a wide range of experiences in the field of commercial law, primarily in France and Qatar. In addition to assisting our clients with establishing their businesses in Qatar, Mathieu also has extensive experience with corporate restructuring, joint ventures, and a wide range of corporate business transactions, including but not limited to International Commercial Arbitration. As Director of International Affairs at Al Sulaiti Law Firm, with more than fourteen years of experience in the legal field, he is a valuable asset to the Al Sulaiti Law Firm. He is able to enhance the firm’s existing collaborative business relationships and activities, ensuring that clients are provided with the highest quality legal assistance as part of the firms growing international footprint.
As well as his work with Al Sulaiti Law Firm, Mathieu R. Faupin has worked in the corporate sector in the United States and has taught law at Université Reims-Champagne-Ardenne and international relations at USC-Los Angeles. In July 2013, Mathieu was elected president of the Union des Français de l’Etranger (UFE), a Qatari association representing the French community.
Nadyn has international experience on a wide range of projects and other forms of structured finance, including project transactions in Kuwait and in the region. Her experience includes international mergers and acquisitions, cross-border joint ventures, and project finance and development. Nadyn has been involved in a number of high profile cases including the Investment Dar debt restructuring, which has been ranked by the International Financial Law Review as one of the most important top 100 deals in 2015, and Adeem Investment and Wealth Management restructuring which was awarded the ‘Restructuring Deal of the Year’ by the International Financial Law Review in 2017.
Nadyn has been ranked as the ‘Next Generation Partner’ and is recommended by Legal 500 for banking and finance in Kuwait for three consecutive years.
With over 16 years in specialist international recruitment, Jon is an expert in global retained search through to specialist regional campaigns. Jon’s expertise lies in senior/executive level recruitment across most industries/sectors, having partnered with a broad spectrum of FTSE 100 & FTSE 250 organizations. Jon heads up Key Accounts for the Middle East, and also manages a team recruiting for the following divisions – Sales, Marketing, Digital, Retail, Human Resources, Legal, Property & Construction, Oil & Gas, Technology & Strategy.