Mahmoud Abuwasel
Managing Partner and Head of Corporate & Tax Disputes, WASEL&WASEL (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Corporate; Commercial; TMT
Master's Degree, General Management with Constitutional Law, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Juris Doctor, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Master's Degree, Islamic Law, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
Bachelor's Degree, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada
Vice President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Young Lawyers Committee National Representative (UAE) - International Bar Association (since 2017)
Co-Chair Programming & Development (International) - Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs
Mahmoud Abuwasel is a Harvard graduate practitioner with experience in North America and the MENA region, and has represented leading HNW investors and multinationals across the globe in multi-billion-dollar litigation and arbitral proceedings, and is regularly published and interviewed in leading news outlets.
Mahmoud is the Managing Partner of Wasel & Wasel, a precedent-setting, global disputes practice, with a Middle East focus. The firm is recognized as one of the regional law firms of the year 2020 by the Middle East Legal Awards, and as a leading law firm by market regulators.
Clients describe him as “being a quick thinker”, “an outstanding gentleman”, “a great professional lawyer”, “a master at his game”, and an “unstoppable force”.