About

‘A lawyer who knows how to find answers’, Anwar El Khatib has been widely acclaimed throughout a prestigious 20-year legal career across in-house and private practice. During his previous role at real estate finance provider, Tamweel, he established a ground-breaking process for enabling Sharia-compliant documents to be enforceable in conventional Courts between 2009 and 2010. A year earlier, when he joined Tamweel at the height of the global crisis, he established its entire legal function from scratch, with minimal resources. Leading all legal, compliance and administration at Oman Insurance Company, he has expanded the function and restricted the outsourcing of work to litigation and specialist areas. Outside counsel should be more ‘commercially inclined’ and ‘solutions-oriented’, he suggests. El Khatib’s previous roles have included interior specialist depa’s group legal director and company secretary and partner at Souhaid, Sayssa and Khatib.