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General Counsel: Middle East - Global Market Leaders
Individual Editorial
Samer Abdelhaq is a highly regarded lawyer who is General Counsel at the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance. He has been the organisation's top lawyer since 2020, having joined it from Amazon, where he was the multinational giant's Middle East general counsel. He has a wealth of expertise in the financial services arena, having also been a private practice lawyer at A&O Shearman and Simmons & Simmons.
Strengths
Samer is a good lawyer and a great GC.
Samer is incredibly eloquent, well-skilled and brilliant to work with. He is also very pragmatic.
Samer Abdelhaq is very knowledgeable and has a very good banking background.