Al Tamimi & Company

Corporate Commercial

Partner

Willem is a Partner in the Corporate Commercial group and has over 18 years of transactional and commercial advisory experience. He has practiced in the UAE for over 15 years and is ranked in Who’s Who Legal for his franchising experience. He regularly acts for local and international blue-chip clients, both listed and unlisted, on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious corporate and commercial matters.

Willem’s areas of expertise are commercial and business advisory, franchising, distribution, arrangements, consultancy arrangements, introduction and commission arrangements, warehousing and logistics arrangements, terms and conditions of procurement and sale, manufacturing and supply arrangements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements as well as multi-sector services arrangements.

Willem’s particular strength is his ability to negotiate and draft complex commercial and transactional agreements, including full suite franchise agreements, and providing pragmatic and strategic advice on all matters related to direct and indirect corporate expansion into the UAE, in general, and the Emirate of Dubai, in particular.

Afrikaans and English

2005 – Member of the Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope and the Cape Town Bar

2005 – LLB Bachelor of Law Degree, University of South Africa

1996 – B.Com (Law) Bachelor of Commerce Degree, University of Stellenbosch