Mahmood Hussain

Practice Areas

•Dispute Resolution and International Commercial Arbitrations

•Civil and Commercial Litigation

•Corporate Governance

Career

Dr. Mahmoud Hussain is the Founding Partner at Mahmoud Hussain Advocates & Legal Consultancy and has over 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors. In his role as a litigator at Dubai Courts, Dr. Mahmoud has achieved many favorable judgments in several high-profile cases.

Dr. Mahmoud through his niche practice of being an arguing Counsel before the Honorable Judges at UAE Courts, has set up a benchmark for effective representation involving complex legal issues. Dr. Mahmoud has acted as an arbitrator in more than 50 International Arbitration proceedings under the ICC, LCIA, ADCCAC and DIAC rules. He has frequently provided expert legal opinion on a UAE Laws on matters before High Courts of Justice, UK Queens Bench Division, DIFC, Paris Courts of Appeal, Hamm Court of Appeal and other International Courts and Arbitral Tribunals. He has the right of audience before the Dubai Courts, Federal Courts, DIFC and ADGM.

Professional Memberships

Chairperson of the steering committee of the International Chamber of Commerce United Arab Emirates (ICC UAE) Commission on Arbitration & ADR for the term 2023-2025

International Compliance Association (MICA), UK - Fellow

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) - Fellow of the Institute

United Arab Emirates International Chamber of Commerce (ICC-UAE) - Member

United Arab Emirates International Chamber of Commerce (ICC-UAE) – Member of Commission on Arbitration and ADR

Member of ICC Commission in Arbitration and ADR

International Compliance Association (MICA), UK – Member

Registered Member of Qatar International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA)

Member of Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)

ADR Center International Accreditation for Mediators and IMI International Certification for Qualified Mediators

Publications

M. Hussein; N. Ridwan Simpson (2022, forthcoming) "Environmental Law and Public Policy in Islam: Whether the Preservation of the Environment Constitutes as Part of the UAE's Public Policy and the Issue of Arbitrability of Environmental Disputes"

(TDM, ISSN 1875-4120) October 2022, www.transnational-dispute-management.com

Contributed and co-authored the book, “A Guide to Arbitration in the UAE”, published by International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on January, 2020.

Personal

He is also an adjunct professor at the University of East Anglia where his taught program is Law and Practice of Sharia Arbitration.

Adjunct Professor at Pantheon-Assas University Paris II

Member of the Advisory Board at Panthéon-Assas University Paris II, Dubai

Member of the Advisory Board at The British University in Dubai