Our LAWYERS

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Waseem Khokhar is the Managing Partner for KLME LLP, with close to 25 years of legal experience gained across both the UK and the Gulf region. He is a qualified Solicitor (England & Wales) and a registered legal consultant with the Dubai Legal Affairs Department.

 Waseem’s key experience includes advising on major corporate and commercial transactions, working closely with major family groups and HNWs on a variety of matters, including corporatisation/ transformation, succession, restructuring, tax and family protocols. 

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Michael Hancock has extensive experience gained at Schlumberger (London and Singapore), Alcatel (Paris), Ooredoo (Doha), San Miguel (Manila), Loon/ Google (Dubai), and at White & Case, Paris and Salans (now Dentons), Paris and Istanbul. 

Today Michael mainly advises on commercial, corporate and M&A matters, mainly in the technology sector. 

Corporate and Commercial

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Priyasha Corrie is a corporate and commercial lawyer with over ten years of experience in the Middle East and India region acting for multinational companies, regional conglomerates, small and medium enterprises, and start-ups across a broad spectrum of matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, complex joint ventures, corporate restructurings, corporate financings, employment, anti-bribery and corruption, and general corporate advisory. 

Real Estate & Hospitality 

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Emad has over 21 years of hospitality, real estate, tax, and corporate finance experience. He has successfully negotiated, handled and led complex transactions totalling billions of dollars for residential, retail, and hospitality portfolios. 

Emad is particularly experienced in leading in-house legal teams, as well as advising the Board of Directors, playing a key role as part of the executive leadership team in supporting the strategic direction whilst ensuring strong corporate governance and compliance. Emad is bilingual in Arabic and English.

Infrastructure, Power and Utilities

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 Rahul Goswami is a Partner at KLME based in Dubai and focuses his practice on infrastructure, power and utilities including renewables, private public partnership and transportation projects. 

He has advised project developers, lenders, government entities and contractors on some of the well-known utility, petrochemical, metro and airport projects in the Middle East region.

Banking & Finance 

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 Kamal is a Partner at KLME Law LLP with over 22 years of banking, finance, corporate and commercial law experience in the MENA region. An England & Wales qualified barrister, he advises businesses and private clients in protecting their interests and mitigating legal risk while expanding their operations in the Middle East and beyond. As the bestselling author of "UAE Business Essentials," the leading guide to operating a successful enterprise in the UAE, Kamal has been recognized by the UAE Federal Government for "Exceptional & Specialized Talents."

Prior to joining KLME, Kamal was a Partner at Davidson & Co. heading its Banking and Corporate division. He has also served as Head of Legal at Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) and its Regional Senior Legal Counsel for Africa, Middle East and Pakistan based out of the Dubai International Financial Centre. With a solution-oriented focus Kamal counsels a wide range of clients from diverse industries and with distinct legal requirements.

Corporate and Commercial 

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Harish Som is an accomplished Corporate, Commercial and Business Lawyer with rich global experience of over 22 years in Middle East and Asia Pacific in advising MNCs and Big Corporates as their General Counsel and Board Member including on big ticket transactions in M&A, JVs, Corporate Restructuring, ESG, Risk & Compliance. 

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Ayman Alkhalidi is an experienced litigator based in Dubai who specialises in investigations and high-profile cross-border disputes. He advises on a broad range of commercial disputes ranging from partnership disputes to complex fraud investigations. He has over 10 years’ experience working in the UAE and is well versed with defending client rights successfully before the UAE Courts, at tribunals and in relation to the Enforcement of Arbitration Awards through the UAE courts.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration 

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  Dr Ihab Idris is a skilled lawyer and arbitrator based in the United Arab Emirates, with over 20 years of private practice and in-house experience, delivering legal advice on a range of practice areas covering family law, criminal and civil/commercial litigation with a particular focus on high-profile clients. 

Corporate and Commercial 

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 Alizeh has over twenty years of experience in both in-house and private practice. Alizeh is a specialist in corporate-commercial advisory, contract drafting and negotiation, ethical compliance and corporate governance. Alizeh has experience establishing a legal and compliance function, introducing compliance and governance systems and policies, and implementing them across several countries in the MENA region. 

Tech, Media & Telecoms 

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Carolina Gerding is an experienced lawyer in telecommunications regulatory issues, intellectual property and a variety of corporate and commercial matters gained working in law firms such as Baker McKenzie (Buenos Aires), Johnson and Pump (Riyadh), boutique consulting firm Hyde & Associates (Paris) and The Arab Network for Human Rights Institutions (Doha). She speaks fluent English, French and Spanish.

Tech, Media & Telecoms 

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 Bertrand is a seasoned general counsel and U.S.-qualified lawyer with over 30 years of diverse legal and compliance experience across the U.S., Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. He has a proven track record of building and leading professional legal teams and serving as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives. Bertrand specializes in providing strategic, commercially focused legal advice, with expertise spanning telecommunications and internet law, cloud-based technology, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, smart contracts, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, distribution and agency agreements, litigation management, compliance, and data privacy. 

Blockchain and Digital Assets

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 Irina Heaver is a leading cryptocurrency and blockchain lawyer based in Dubai and Switzerland representing clients worldwide. She is highly regarded internationally for her extensive experience and deep technical knowledge of blockchain, smart contracts and cryptocurrency matters. Irina advises across the value chain in the blockchain space, including multinational companies and protocol developers, issuers of security tokens, DeFi and NFT projects, blockchain infrastructure projects, such as tokenisation platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges and payment providers, funds investing in cryptocurrency and blockchain ventures.

Litigation and Arbitration 

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 Sahar Khan, Called-to-the-Bar of England & Wales in 2021 at Gray's Inn, holds a BCL from Oxford. With five years of experience in UK commercial, employment, and criminal litigation, she has advised on cross-jurisdictional wills and trusts disputes, represented a BVI company in UK investment-related tax disputes, and contributed to a significant case before the International Court of Arbitration. 

Corporate and Commercial 

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Rachad is a senior lawyer with over 10 years of experience working in the legal services industry across the MENA region. His practice focuses on contract law, corporate and arbitration. Rachad has worked for several law firms in Lebanon, France, and Qatar. He has a Master’s degree in Corporate Finance Law from the University of Westminster. 

Corporate and Commerical 

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Brinda is a corporate commercial lawyer specialising in public and private cross-border M&A transactions, IPO’s, and DIFC transactions, including setting up and restructuring regulated and nonregulated entities, holding companies and offshore and onshore companies.

She advises clients on day-to-day corporate compliance and general corporate matters. 

Corporate and Commercial

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Sakshi Jaiswal is a lawyer with over four years of experience in commercial litigation and commercial contracts across a wide spectrum of industries.

 During her practice in India, Sakshi has been actively involved in a number international arbitrations involving government contracts and has assisted several clients with their media-related documents. 

Corporate and Commercial 

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Mugeera is an Indian qualified lawyer with a strong legal support background in commercial and intellectual property law. 

Mugeera also has experience of providing legal assistance to international stakeholders based out of Dubai, Malaysia, the UK and the USA.

Banking & Finance

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 Abbas is a Pakistani qualified lawyer and licensed Advocate of the High Court in Pakistan. His experience has focused mainly on civil litigation, including a wide variety of matters ranging from large real estate disputes to corporate advice, copyright infringement, human and animal rights issues, filing constitutional petitions and challenging the framework of certain statutes and the Pakistani Constitution. 

Banking & Finance

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 Ali is a licensed lawyer in Pakistan with a robust background in Business Law, Commercial Negotiations, Labor and Employment Law, Consumer Law, Copyright Law, and Company Law. He brings extensive experience in assisting senior partners with dispute resolution and advising start-ups and SMEs on mitigating legal risks and expanding operations in the Middle East and beyond.

Tech, Media and Telecoms

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Tech, Media & Telecoms 

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Nicole offers paralegal support in relation to various corporate legal agreements. She also assists with translation, editing, proofreading, formatting, and cross-reference reviews. Nicole is proficient in assisting lawyers with case management, M&A transactions, due diligence, and client billing.