Alan heads Hadef & Partner’s Banking & Finance practice in Dubai. He has extensive experience in advising clients on legal aspects in banking, Islamic finance, project finance, UAE debt capital markets, private public initiatives and privatisation. His clients include developers, sponsors, banks, government institutions and private entities.

 

Over the past 20 years, Alan has practised throughout the Middle East including in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Cairo. He has been involved in one way or another since 1999, in all of the UAE’s water and power and sewage infrastructure projects. Alan and his team have been involved in the UAE’s groundbreaking PPPs, infrastructure funds and bank restructuring transactions.

 

Prior to working in the Middle East, Alan worked at Linklaters in London undertaking major institutional commercial property development and funding work.

 

He holds a MA (Hons) from the University of Dundee, completed Part I and II Law Society Exams, and is admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.