Al Tamimi & Company, the largest law firm in the Middle East, has announced the promotion of eight new partners. This latest development takes the total number of partners at the firm to 76.
Dr. Ahmed Basrawi (Litigation, Jeddah), Ali Bachrouch (Corporate Structuring, Sharjah), Ahmad Ghoneim (Litigation, Abu Dhabi), Alex Ghazi (Corporate, Abu Dhabi), Mark Brown (Banking & Finance, Dubai), Roy Georgiades (Litigation, Qatar office in association with Adv. Mohammed S. Al Marri Advocates & Legal Consultants, Steve Bainbridge, (Corporate, Dubai) and Taiba Alsafar (Litigation, Dubai), will all join the partnership effective 1st of July 2019.
Dr. Ahmed Basrawi, Litigation, Jeddah: Dr. Basrawi has more than 16 years of legal experience and has been involved in drafting regulation, restructuring and privatization projects in KSA. He also has experience in establishing Saudi Arabian, GCC and international companies (through SAGIA) and the drafting of commercial contracts and advice memoranda and has advised clients on a wide range of property and corporate commercial matters from due diligence through project execution. Dr. Basrawi was also a lecturer in Litigation and Commercial Law at the University of Jeddah.
Ali Bachrouch, Corporate Structuring, Sharjah: Ali currently leads the Corporate Structuring team in Northern Emirates, UAE. He joined the firm in 2007. He has for many years practiced and published in the field of Business Law, IT, Environment, Healthcare, Energy, Contracting and Natural Resources, with focus on drafting and negotiating contracts and other legal documents and advising on corporate structuring issues with specialization in advising on the regulatory issues governing the business agreements and structuring of projects involving entities form public sector. Ali has previously practiced in the well-known law practice of Prof. Edward Eid in Lebanon and acted as a project manager of the government-supported research project at QUB-UK for building the TitaniQ Corpus. Ali has lectured on Law and IT at various universities in the UK and Lebanon.