Michael Hilton

Practice Areas

Michael is Freshfields' Regional Managing Partner for MENA, having previously headed up our Abu Dhabi office. He specialises in cross-border private and public M&A and joint ventures, with a focus on financial sponsor work. In recent years he has advised on many of the major outbound investments from the region and has been involved in most of the highest-profile transactions in Abu Dhabi.

With more than 20 years of experience Michael's practice spans a number of sectors including energy and natural resources, infrastructure, financial services, telecoms and tech. His clients include large government-owned institutions and corporates such as ADNOC, ENOC, DP World, Saudi Telecom Company and OSN, various financial institutions, a number of global financial investors and the region's most prominent sovereign wealth funds.