Jafar Khan joined Mott MacDonald in mid-2015 after a successful private practice career based in Melbourne, London and Dubai, an experience that he believes ‘shaped me into the lawyer I...

Chief legal officer for Gemstone Real Estate Development since 2014 as well as a divisional chief legal officer of the real estate sector for the Al Rajhi family, Aasma Khan’s...

Walid Ali Khalil joined the Kuwait-based, US$1bn market capitalisation Mezzan Holding Co in 2006 as senior legal assistant, and has proved an indispensable resource for the company’s in-house legal function...

As general counsel of one of Dubai’s leading private equity and investment firms, Ali Khalaf has enjoyed an extremely diverse range of projects as part of his regular workload. He...

A perennial high-flyer, as well as a trailblazer for Pakistani women looking to emulate her success in the competitive legal and business world, Fauzia Kehar’s extremely impressive career – achieved,...

In terms of project work, Sari Kanaan says that recently his efforts as senior legal counsel for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey for AkzoNobel have mainly been concerned with...

Among the foremost aviation leasing companies in the world, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise boasts a fleet of hundreds of aircraft worth billions of dollars. Lesley Jones has acted as chief legal...

Michelle Johnson joined Air Berlin shortly after its initial public offering in 2006, beginning her extremely successful in-house career within the low-cost airline sector. Here, she says, ‘I led and...

Shaun Johnson credits his time in private practice with Ashurst (formerly Blake Dawson) in Australia and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as having been instrumental in his later success as an in-house...

With a project development track record which includes major programmes in Southeast Asia and Europe in the infrastructure, energy, healthcare, and logistics sectors, Alcazar Capital is among the most noteworthy...