Mahmoud Abuwasel

Mahmoud Abuwasel

Managing Partner and Head of Corporate & Tax Disputes, WASEL&WASEL (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Areas of expertise

Corporate; Commercial; TMT

Education
  • 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

Memberships
  • 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

Biography

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”.