Hiba Allam

Hiba Allam

Senior Consultant, Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF (Dubai, UAE)

Areas of expertise

Corporate, Islamic Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions and Financial Services

Education
  • PhD Law (Hons), Paris II Pantheon-Assas University, Paris, France

  • DEA, Comparative Business Law (Hons), Harvard Law School, Boston, USA

  • Masters' Degree, Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France

Memberships
  • Admitted as Solicitor in England and Wales

Biography
  • Hiba worked FWU Global Takaful Solutions from 2012 to 2019, leading all legal aspects of conventional and Shari'a compliant financing transactions. She has experience as a lawyer in several international law firms: Vinson & Elkins, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feed, DLA Piper and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

  • Hiba has experience in leading international and regional Mergers & Acquisitions and financing transactions, conventional as well as Sharia compliant. She has strong legal credentials, both in Civil Law and Common Law and speaks Arabic, English, French and German.