Our Team
Mohammed is a highly accomplished lawyer, a former senior executive with the Damac group and Drake and Scull International PJSC especialising in Real estate and Construction disputes, having worked extensively with UAE Courts. His clients impressively include Oracle, , Lafarge, Amazon, Hills & Fort Construction, Arabian Construction Company and Tamweel etc.
He is the attending lecturer with the Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI) and Innovation Experts Real Estate Institute IE and was recently involved In complex legal issues relating to corporate and executed works in relation to the Souq Al Bahar.
Mohamed is certified arbitrator and mediator at DIAC, and UAESAC.
International and private clients in the region have described him as “…a truly consummate lawyer with a unique understanding of the UAE courts and process…saved the company a fortune” (Oracle Limited).
Mohamed Ghanem
Chairman
OBAID KHADIM BIN TOUQ AL MARRI
Senior Partner (Emirates Office)
Obaid Bin Touq is an Emirati Entrepreneur and listed in Forbes Middle East. He has earned his License in Law and Police Sciences in 2007, Master of Science in Service Leadership and Innovation from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2012.
Obaid appointed as chairman of Drake & Scull PJSC where he assisted in restructuring of entire business, negotiations with banks, resolving thousands of labour problems.
We know the essential target of business, To develop more and make it productive.
The senior partner and the founder of Amal Alsubaei Advocates and Legal Consultants, a fully licensed advocate before both Dubai and federal courts with more than 15 years of experience in litigation and dispute resolution in the UAE, other GCC countries and is one of the region’s most respected litigators. After her graduation in law school she worked for many years as in-house legal advisor for Standard Chartered Bank (Dubai), Mashreq bank (Dubai) and Commercial Bank of Dubai (Dubai).
Through her years of legal practice she has acquired vast experience in the local laws and court practices.
Practice Areas: Litigation, Criminal, Commercial and Real Estate.
Amal Alsubaei speaks Arabic and English fluently.
Amal Alsubaei
Local Counsel (Emirates Office)
Nigel Truscott
Senior Partner (UK Office)
Nigel is a solicitor of England and Wales and he acted as General Counsel for Emerald Palace Group Vice, the developer of Kempinski and Raffles the Palm and as Vice President Legal of the Damac group, he specializes in dispute resolution and arbitration. Combined with his non-contentious commercial experience he has worked on a range of significant (US$ million/billion) international projects since 1990. He has been based in Dubai over 22 years and is a regular contributor to key publications such as Gulf Business, Construction News, Business 24 and the Lloyds Insurance Market.
He is a founding committee member of the UAE branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) registered arbitrator.
Legal 500 has described his ability to ‘provide real help navigating the legal landscape of the UAE’ and Chambers Global Legal directory has recognized his ‘strong reputation for really knowing his stuff‘ and praised his client handling skills as ‘highly affable and sensible’ and being ‘a highly sought after construction specialist’ and in 2013 ‘Head of arbitration Nigel Truscott has ‘a supportive approach’.
Emad Elsisi, Counselor and lawyer in cassation hold a master’s degree in criminal sciences and many awards and certificates of appreciation from Cairo University, such as the award of Dr. Abdel Moneim El Badrawy and Dr. Ramzy Seif.
The main partner at Al-Ghanim and Al-Sisi Law Firm and Legal Consultations has experience in litigation, disputes, contracts, and negotiations for more than 26 years, during which he conducted many negotiations, edited and drafted contracts and agreements, and handled cases and legal advice.
El-Sisi worked as Legal Counsel for a number of giant companies, such as Emaar Properties, Damac Group, Emirates National Bank of Dubai, Commercial International Bank, Arabtec Construction, Misr Afro Egypt Contracting Branch, and legal advisor to Trobi 1 Company, which owns Nubian Hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh.
During his work as a senior lawyer at Al Shalakany Law Firm and Legal Consultations for 11 years, he provided legal advice and defended dozens of local and international companies.
Emad ELsisi
Partner (Cairo office)
Shaimaa Shalan
Sport Arbitrator& Mediator UAESAC (UAE SPORTS ARBITRATION CENTER)
Shaimaa Shalan, Sport Arbitrator& Mediator UAESAC (UAE SPORTS ARBITRATION CENTER).Certified International Legal Consultant-GLC)/UK, Professional Master’s in Legal Sciences from Nevada University. Shaimaa holds as well bachelor of pharmaceutical science with over than 15 years in drugs cases and sport’s doping.
Shaimaa is expert in sport laws and sport arbitration procedures in Egypt, GCC, Switzerland and CAS.
Shaimaa is expert in settlement of Sports- related disputes and drafting and reviewing of sports related commercial contracts such as those relating to player transfers, broadcasting rights, sponsorship rights or staging of sporting events and the cases related to Sports Doping locally or internationally WADA (WORLD-ANTI DOPING AGENCY).
- Eslam Mezar is a Technology Lawyer, AI & Privacy Regulations Consultant, and he has more than 8 years of experience as an Egyptian Bar registered attorney.
- He is a Public Speaker who gave Speeches at Conferences in DIFC and workshops to the corporate like Saint-Gobain Egypt.
- Work on cross-border High profile cases on money laundering and human trafficking, starting in the Gulf and passing by the UK, US, and Switzerland.
- Member of the advisory committee that developed the digital transformation strategy for the Egyptian Bar Association and his role was centered around IT laws, Cybersecurity, Personal data protection and privacy.
- Legal/technical experience in data protection regulations, Anti-Cybercrime Laws, Investigations, and Digital Forensics.
- Hold a master’s degree In Cybercrime Investigations from The British University in Egypt, and the program was accredited by London South Bank University, The dissertation is titled “Artificial Intelligence Applications and their Impact on Data Privacy”.
- Hold a master’s degree in public and criminal law from Alexandria University.
Eslam Mezar
Senior Associate
Omar Kassem
Senior Associate
- Egyptian lawyer and legal advisor, He holds a master’s degree in law from the Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University
- Attorney and legal advisor for various private and public entities.
- A lawyer and legal advisor at the International Company for Tourist Resorts, which owns (the village of Greek Island, Ras Sudr).
- A lawyer and reviewer of mortgage contracts at Galfar Consulting and Engineering Services, affiliated with the Emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
- A lawyer in the office of Mr. Mahmoud Swailem (previously director of the office of bar association chairman H.E Rajai Attia).
- Attorney and legal advisor at Al-Qasim Law Firm and Legal Consultations.
- Eight years of experience as a lawyer
- He holds a training certificate in legal affairs and public relations at Petrobel Belaim.