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Hazel Shakur Quinn

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Work Department

Corporate, Development Zoning and Planning, Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), Real Estate Joint Ventures, Partnerships and Other Co-Ownerships, Real Estate Leasing Occupation and Operation

Position

Hazel Shakur Quinn is a senior legal consultant based in Dentons’ Dubai office and is a member of the Real Estate practice.

Hazel has 22 years’ experience providing clients with strategic and practical solutions on complex real estate matters in the UK, UAE and the wider Middle East. Over the last decade, she has become the go-to-expert and trusted advisor on Middle East real estate matters to leading sovereign wealth funds, family offices, technology companies, major developers and investors on a wide range of real estate matters.

Hazel has first-hand experience of running a real estate company which makes her a unique and commercially focused legal expert in the real estate market. She co-founded one of the largest chartered surveying consultancies in the Middle East.

During her time in the Middle East, Hazel has led a number of “trophy asset” deals and “first-of-their- kind” transactions. She has been ranked as a leading real estate expert in Chambers Global, which states that “Hazel has impressed clients by being very knowledgeable, calm and incisive”. She is known for her high-quality drafting and is recognized as a tough negotiator. Sources elaborate to say “she’s very practical and commercial, delivers a good service and provides very good drafting in plain English”. Businesses choose to work with Hazel for her superior industry knowledge and her strategic and commercial approach to getting deals done, with one business referring to her as the “real estate strategy whisperer”.

During her career, Hazel has held senior positions on global diversity and inclusion boards. She has won recognition from the legal industry for her empowerment of women initiatives in the Middle East.

Hazel is regularly invited to speak at real estate industry conferences and events.

Career

• Masdar (a Mubadala company): Advising on the asset management and restructuring of one of its commercial office portfolios and subsequently advising on the structure and establishment of its multi-million US$ “Green REIT” in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. This was the first sustainable green REIT to be established in the UAE.*
• A Dubai-based private investor: Advising the multi-million US$ acquisition and finance of U-Bora Tower, Business Bay, Dubai – a 57-storey commercial office let to more than 80 tenants and subject to a double-layered strata scheme. By deal value, it was the single largest investment asset deal to be registered at the Dubai Land Department at the time.*
• The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC): Advising on the legal structuring of its giga luxury real estate and hospitality developments on an archipelago of islands in the Red Sea (including Sheybarah Island and Shurayrah Island) and the associated suite of documentation relating to its proposed jointly-owned property schemes.*
• Aldar Properties: Advising on the restructuring of its master community declarations and subordinate jointly-owned property suite of documentation across 12 of its residential schemes and new developments, as well as advising on the launch of several new residential projects.*
• Abu Dhabi Business Hub: Advising on the corporate disposal of the majority of its logistics business and subsequent joint venture with Aldar which marked a landmark transaction in the UAE logistics sector in 2022.*
• Various corporate occupiers: Advising various occupiers including Apple Inc., Knight Frank, Deliveroo and The Executive Centre on leading lease negotiations of their respective commercial and retail space in the UAE.*

Languages

English

Memberships

Solicitor, Law Society of Scotland, 2002

Education

BPP University, 2007, Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test, (English Law)

University of Dundee, 2000, Diploma in Legal Practice, (Distinction)

University of Dundee, 1999, Bachelor of Laws