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About

The firm: Al Tamimi & Company is the largest law firm in the Middle East with 17 offices across nine countries. Established in 1989, we are a full service commercial firm combining knowledge, experience and expertise to ensure our clients have access to the best legal solutions that are commercially sound and cost effective.

Our clients are at the centre of everything that we do – their business is our business.
Our strength comes from our clients’ trust that we will provide them the quality of service that they deserve. Therefore, we make it our business to find creative and commercial legal solutions whilst focusing on making the law work for them. Over the years, we have acted for a wide variety of clients, including: government bodies; government or semi-government owned entities; local, regional and international companies; banks and financial institutions; along with both international and regional law firms.

We’re not like everyone else.
As a firm, we have the ability to practice local law in each of the nine jurisdictions where we have a presence. This means that each of our licensed litigators have rights of audience before local courts. We are proud of this unique strength, which truly sets us apart from the competition.

Doing Business in the Middle East?
So are we! Our regional footprint means that wherever our clients are doing business in the region, we are there to support them. Our expansion has been strategic and client driven. Our values define who we are and what is important to us. As a firm, we have grown based on a set of core values, which are integral to all that we do.

Areas of practice: As the Middle East’s largest law firm Al Tamimi & Company has vast experience acting for clients across many jurisdictions in the region. Through our full service offering we are able to provide legal advice with a one-stop-shop for all your legal requirements. We offer specialist legal advice in the following practice areas: arbitration; aviation; automotive; banking and finance; capital markets; commercial; construction and infrastructure; corporate services; education; employment and incentives; Expo 2020; family business and private wealth; financial crime; FMCG; healthcare; hotels and leisure; mergers and acquisitions; projects; rail; regulatory; shipping; sports and events management; transport and logistics.

Languages

  • Afrikaans
  • Arabic
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Hakka)
  • Hindi
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Armenian
  • Malay
  • Mandarin
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
  • Tagalog
  • Bahasa
  • Urdu
  • Tamil
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Bengali
  • Cantonese
  • Danish
  • English
  • Farsi
  • French

Memberships

  • Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)
  • Australian Business Group
  • International Council for Commercial Arbitration
  • ABA (American Bar Association)
  • British Business Group
  • Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Employment Lawyers Association
  • Energy Institute
  • International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI)
  • GCC Commercial Arbitration Centre

Staffing Figures

  • 370 Number of lawyers worldwide