Catherine Beckett > Dentons > DUBAI, United Arab Emirates > Lawyer Profile
Dentons Offices
LEVEL 18, BOULEVARD PLAZA 2
BURJ KHALIFA DISTRICT
P.O. BOX 1756
United Arab Emirates
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Catherine Beckett
Work Department
Corporate, Employment and Labor, Equity Capital Markets Health Care Infrastructure Joint Ventures
Position
Catherine is a senior legal consultant in the UAE Corporate & Commercial team. She has experience in general corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, takeovers and corporate finance. Catherine has previously been recognised by Chambers Global, noting that she is an “excellent lawyer – she approaches things in a practical and commercial fashion and understands where [clients] are coming from”.
Career
2013 – present: Corporate Partner at Dentons
2009 – 2013: Associate / Senior Associate at Dentons
2006 – 2009: Associate at CMS Cameron McKenna
Languages
English, French, German
Memberships
Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2006
Education
Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, 2003, LPC
University of Birmingham, 2002, LLB, FR Law with French
Lawyer Rankings
United Arab Emirates > Commercial, corporate and M&A
A ‘great team with unique and valuable insight on local practice and law’, Dentons is active in the full range of corporate deals in the region and acts for clients in a range of sectors, including energy, TMT, healthcare and real estate. Cross-border transactions are a key strength of the team and it is able to draw on the firm’s offices across the wider Middle East. The ‘superb‘ group head Iain Black stands out for his M&A and joint venture practice and David McGrory provides extensive counsel to clients engaged in the fintech, spacetech, renewables, aerospace and healthcare industries. Senior legal consultant Catherine Beckett and associate Kislay Kumar have also been active on an array of mandates. Ross Barfoot and Stephen McKenna were new arrivals in February 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Corporate finance (including Islamic lending)
- Capital markets
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: arbitration and international litigation
- Dispute resolution: compliance and investigations
- Employment
- Infrastructure and projects (including project finance)
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Real estate