Al Tamimi & Company promotes seven new partners
Seven new partners have been promoted at Al Tamimi & Company as of January 2025, these are Abubaker Jeeballah, Ali Awad, Dipali Maldonado, Haydar Jawad, Hussain Almatrood, Khushboo Shahdadpuri, Sabrina Saxena.
The profiles
Before joining Al Tamimi & Company, Abubaker Jeeballah worked as a legal consultant at Osama al-Qahtani Law Firm in Riyadh from 2014 to 2019, when he joined his current firm. He also has experience in drafting laws and regulations in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, he has experience in corporate/commercial matters, regulatory, litigation, arbitration, construction dispute resolution, and banking law matters.
Al Awad has been with Al Tamimi & Company since 2002. With extensive experience in banking and finance, Ali has advised on financial activities and licenses. He has set up financial institutions regulated by the UAE Central Bank and the Securities and Commodities Authority. He has also assisted with regulatory mandates and examinations. Ali Awad has worked on structuring, negotiating, and executing complex financing transactions and security creations. Ali Awad has also assisted in drafting, amending, and enforcing constitutional documents of various companies. He has advised government and semi-government authorities on financial products. He has attended general meetings of different types of companies.
Practicing at Al Tamimi & Company since Dipali Maldonado has been practicing at Al Tamimi & Company for the past 13 years. She is an active member of Al Tamimi and Company’s India Desk. Dipali Maldonado is a UAE and English-qualified lawyer with over 18 years of experience and launched the private client service practice at Al Tamimi & Company. Consequently, she has extensive experience in advising family businesses, high profile and high net worth individuals and family offices on all aspects of their businesses; both local and international, contentious and non-contentious.
Haydar Jawad joined Al Tamimi & Company in 2011. Haydar Jawad is a company’s registration agent licensed by the Ministry of Trade since 2015. He has a Certificate for successful completion of the Business Association Capacity Building Workshop, The Center for International Private Enterprise – U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a Certificate for participating as a judge in the 2014 Iraq National Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition held by Iraq USAID Access to Justice Program and International Law Students Association.
Hussain Almatrood is a US-trained lawyer working in the litigation department at Al Tamimi & Company (DIFC office) since 2012. He is involved in Arabic and English matters appearing before UAE Courts, DIFC Courts, and arbitration proceedings, and he is also a member of the Michigan State Bar. He advises on litigation matters relating to real estate, commercial, and civil disputes. Furthermore, he deals with various criminal and estate planning issues. His experience includes claims before all levels of the Dubai Courts, the DIFC Courts, special committees and courts of other Emirates, and international litigation disputes.
Khushboo Shahdadpuri is an arbitration lawyer at Al Tamimi & Company, where she has been employed for the last 7 years. Her main focus is on infrastructure, construction, and energy projects in the Middle East. Khushboo Shahdadpuri’s practice focuses on international dispute resolution. She has particular experience in construction, infrastructure, energy (renewables in particular), oil & gas, corporate and real estate development disputes. Her experience includes international arbitration matters under the rules of the ICC, SIAC, DIAC, LCIA, LMAA, QICCA, JAMS, SCC, as well as ad-hoc arbitration proceedings under the Uncitral rules and applications before the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Sabrina Saxena has been employed as a lawyer at Al Tamimi & Company since 2021, after two years at Clyde & Co. as an associate. Sabrina Saxena advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters in the UAE, onshore, and within various free zones, including the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). She regularly advises foreign and local companies on all aspects of employment law in the UAE and Oman.
