Nooree Moola

Nooree heads Gibson Dunn’s disputes team in the UAE and specialises in international arbitration and complex commercial litigation, regulatory investigations and complex advisory matters. She has been instructed on multiple landmark commercial disputes before the DIFC Court, creating new law in the process. Nooree also sits as an arbitrator in DIAC, LCIA and DIFC-LCIA proceedings. She recently led an extensive reform of the ADGM Court Rules, Regulations and Practice Directions, which will be published in early 2025. She is also a member of the DIFC Court Rules Drafting Subcommittee, reflecting her deep involvement in the UAE’s local court communities. Nooree also secured a US$ 1.65 billion award in a DIFC-seated arbitration, the highest value damages award to have been awarded in the DIFC to date.

Nooree regularly represents clients in relation to shareholder disputes, investment disputes, M&A disputes, infrastructure and energy disputes, and matters involving fraud, anti-corruption and white-collar crime. Nooree acts in arbitrations under all of the major institutional rules. She has broad experience, including domestic and transnational litigation at the interlocutory, trial and appellate levels in the DIFC, ADGM, England & Wales and Australia.

She has also acted on multiple campaigns for the enforcement of ultra-high-value arbitral awards across jurisdictions, against sovereign and private entities, where she enforced the highest-value arbitral award to have been enforced in the DIFC (worth US$ 2.4 billion). She has acted for a broad range of clients including international oil companies, multinational corporations, banks, investment firms and sovereign governments.