Al Tamimi & Company

Corporate Commercial

Partner

Suhail is an experienced corporate lawyer with expertise in cross border M&A in the Middle East region and with a focus in the technology (including fintech and digital payments) and infrastructure sectors. He also advises extensively on shareholders’ agreements, fund-raising and start up investments, corporate governance and regulatory matters.

Suhail has been based in Dubai since 2008. He has worked on transactions across the Middle East region and in the wider South Asia and Africa region often structuring investment activity via UAE registered holding entities.

His expertise includes foreign direct investment and assisting multi-national companies to expand their footprint across the region. Over this time in the Middle East, he has advised the region’s leading fintech companies, government entities, private equity investors and family offices in relation to a wide range of M&A deals and investment activity.

Suhail is recommended as an expert UAE-based lawyer by legal directories Legal 500 EMEA and IFLR 1000. He is also recognised for doing “an exceptional job on joint ventures, especially cross-border work” – Chambers Global 2018. He has a broad knowledge of English Law, DIFC Law and Local Law in Dubai, which is critical for anyone operating here.” – Chambers Global 2017.

English, Bengali and Urdu

2000 – Solicitor, England & Wales

1997 – LLB (Hons), The University of Birmingham