Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP

Employment, Pensions, Private Wealth, Immigration, Contentious Trusts and Corporate Tax

Jordan is a Partner within the Private Wealth team in our Dubai office. He fulfils a trusted advisor role to many prominent families based in the GCC and beyond.

Jordan's practice focusses on global mobility, cross-border tax and succession planning, family governance, and real estate, supporting clients from a local and GCC perspective as well as internationally. He has been advising clients based in the Middle East for almost a decade and his experience allows him to take account of local complexities when advising his clients.

During that time, Jordan has been at the forefront of the legislative changes behind the UAE positioning itself as a private wealth hub, allowing him to advise on local tax issues, ADGM and DIFC Trust and Foundation structures, as well as local Wills.

Jordan is also a qualified member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and often contributes to articles and provides know-how sessions to families, private banks and other private wealth practitioners on an array of topical wealth, succession and tax planning issues.

For three successive years Jordan was acknowledged as the sole "Associate to Watch" in the Chambers and Partners High-Net-Worth Guide for Private Wealth Law within the UAE and is now personally ranked as a Band 2 lawyer, clearly demonstrating his reputation as one of the standout private wealth lawyers within the region.