Ali is a highly sought after junior in the fields of commercial litigation, international arbitration (both commercial and investor-state), and public international law. He has experience well beyond his years of call, including cross-examining various witnesses over the course of three days in a $50m ICSID arbitration. He regularly acts in high-profile and high-value cases, including a number of cases featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases. His practice spans a number of jurisdictions, including Russia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

Alongside his general commercial practice, Ali is a leading junior in the field of sanctions. He has acted in high-profile sanctions litigation, and regularly advises clients on the UK and EU regimes, including de-listing applications, issues of ownership and control, licence applications, compliance, enforcement, and the effect of sanctions on commercial contracts.

Call: 2018

Arabic - fluent German - basic Spanish- basic

Harvard Law School, LLM, Frank Knox Fellow – Dean’s Scholar Prize in multiple subjects, including for his paper “Markets, Hegemony and Dominance: Dismantling the Cabal with Antitrust”

BPTC (Outstanding)

University of Cambridge, Law (First Class), 7th in year, with prizes in three papers: Constitutional, EU law,  and EU Environmental Law (scoring the highest mark in the Faculty’s history in the latter)