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Watson Farley & Williams Offices
Office 1702, Level 17, Index Tower, West Entrance
Dubai International Financial Centre
PO Box 506896
United Arab Emirates
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Charlotte Bijlani
Work Department
PARTNER IN THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION GROUP AND HEAD OF THE FIRM’S DUBAI OFFICE
Position
Charlotte is an experienced dispute resolution lawyer with full rights of audience before both the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) courts and the higher courts of England and Wales.
Charlotte’s practice extends to litigation, international arbitration, expert determination and mediation, as well as advisory work on litigation risk and avoidance.
She regularly acts for employers, contractors and funders in construction and engineering disputes across the Middle East, as well as major corporates, developers, investors, financial institutions and high net worth individuals in all types of contentious matters both regionally and in the UK.
Charlotte is recognised as a leading dispute resolution and international arbitration lawyer in the UAE by The Legal 500 EMEA describing her as a “superb litigator”, an “outstanding operator”, “strategically-minded” and says that she provides “an unrivalled combination of dedication and shrewdness”.
Lawyer Rankings
United Arab Emirates > Dispute resolution: arbitration and international litigation
Watson Farley & Williams has expertise across a range of cases. Transport and energy disputes form the cornerstone of the practice, while the team has also seen an uptick in tech-related cases that include data and cybercrime issues. Charlotte Bijlani is ‘a lawyer who gets work done on time but with high quality’ and is particularly renowned for her international arbitration work. Soraya Corm-Bakhos has been kept busy handling energy and transport disputes and Thomas Whitfield has been highly active in aviation cases.