Bilal is a Partner in our corporate team in Dubai. He has significant experience advising global financial institutions, governments and semi government enterprises, investment managers and private equity funds in the UAE, Europe, the Middle East and USA on wide range of corporate governance matters, general corporate and advisory work. He has experience in family wealth planning, initial public offerings, private placements transactions, joint ventures, corporate structuring and restructuring exercises.

Bilal holds LLM Degree in Law from the United Kingdom, he speaks Arabic and English and is a member of the Palestinian Bar Association.

Admissions

• Palestinian Bar Association

• Advised a major local investment manager on their US$250 million private equity fund.
• Advised Emirates NBD Asset Management Limited on their real estate investment trust.
• Advised and assisted Thoma Bravo, Warburg Pincus and other global private equity firms on the creation of their operations in the UAE.
• Acted on the liquidation of the UAE subsidiaries of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
• Acted on the IPO of Gulf Navigation, Emaar Development and others. 
• Advised Drake & Scull International PJSC on their restructuring under the Emergency Financial Crisis Chapter of the UAE Bankruptcy Law.