About

In January 2015, Rasha Alsaeed joined global professional services firm company Aon as its general counsel for the Middle East with responsibility for all legal matters related to insurance, re-insurance, HR consultancy, fund saving and risk assessment. In a short space of time she has already made important changes, including drafting the organisation’s consulting, employment and servicing agreements, its memorandum of associations and sale and purchase agreements for transactions within the region. Alsaeed is in charge of Aon Middle East’s M&A activity, providing legal training across the company’s offices in the region, and she works closely with the compliance officer on anti-boycott and anti-bribery rules as well as FCPA. Aon is not the first significant in-house role Alsaeed has been in. She previously excelled as regional general counsel for Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, where she worked on numerous corporate and transactional representative matters and assisted in the process of drafting the UAE’s recent health insurance law. Other notable positions Alsaeed has held include being corporate partner at Al Saeedi Advocates and a lawyer at international law firm Baker Botts between 2006 and 2012. She obtained her Bachelor degree in law from the American University of Sharjah in 2005.