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Al Tamimi & Company

Corporate/M&A

Global Guide 2026 : Middle East-wide


Al Tamimi & Company

About

Provided by Al Tamimi & Company

Al Tamimi & Company offers access to a brilliant range of M&A specialist lawyers, all of them practicing in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This deep specialist expertise and broad regional footprint arms us with capabilities to lead transactional negotiation, to conduct timely and credible due diligence reviews, to execute any restructuring rapidly and to handle regulatory issues and close deals in MENA countries.

We have handled many of the most significant and high-value M&A deals in the MENA region. In regional cross-border transactions, we offer an unsurpassed combination of specialist legal skills attuned to MENA’s legal systems, and a network of lawyers practicing in nine countries in the region.

Our deal capabilities extend across all key work streams in the M&A legal process, including deal negotiation and transaction documents, due diligence and disclosure carve-outs, pre-closing restructuring, regulatory approvals and deal closings for both share and asset transactions.

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Corporate/M&A - Middle East-wide

Band 4

Band 4


What the Team is Known For
Al Tamimi is a well-regarded regional law firm with an expansive Middle East footprint. Clients benefit from the depth of resources across its many offices throughout the GCC, as well as in Egypt, Jordan and Iraq; the firm is regularly cited as a first choice for local law advice in many of these jurisdictions. Its lawyers often act for prominent domestic and international companies on major M&A transactions, in addition to assisting with joint ventures and corporate structuring and licensing matters.
Notable practitioners

Dubai-based Andrew Tarbuck is a key contact person.

Members

Provided by Al Tamimi & Company

  • Philip Kotsis

  • Ahmed Jaafir

  • Samer Qudah

  • Abdullah Mutawi

  • Alex Saleh

  • Rad El Treki

  • Andrew Tarbuck

  • Khaled Saqqaf

  • Frank Lucente

  • Foutoun Hajjar

  • Mariam El Alaily

  • Nawal Abdel Hadi

  • Ammad Mohammad Saleh

  • Francis Patalong

  • Julie Bassi

  • Abdelrahman Sherif

  • Ali Almuqwishi

  • Lulwa Al Hammad

  • Stavros Marcou

  • Clare Heaney

  • Kareem Zuriekat

  • Alyzeh Zahid

  • Willem Steenkamp

  • Mohammed Norri

  • Zeina Al Nabih

  • Kais Zayadin

  • Anna Robinson

  • Arif Mawany

  • Ahmed Al Barwani

  • Asad Ahmad

  • Chabel Sabeh

  • Izabella Szadkowska

  • James MacCallum

  • Sultan Akbar

  • Yafa Abourah

  • Elisabeth Shawky

  • Zeinab Shohdy

  • Bassem Abdelrahman

  • Christina Sochacki

  • Richard Catling

  • Bandar Al Hamidani

  • Nasser Alohaly

  • Emad Fikry

  • Christopher Webb

  • Jiwon Ha

  • Ahmed Adib

  • Adam Powell

  • Haydar Jawad

  • Hesham Al Homoud

  • Alex Ghazi

  • Grahame Nelson

  • Hugo Cugnet

  • Ingy Darwish

  • Alanood Alhaib

  • Pedro Castro

  • Ahmed Al Fass

  • Carla Saliba

  • Ehab Taha

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