Dipali Maldonado

Senior Counsel

Biography

Dipali Maldonado is a Senior Counsel in the Private Client Services team at Al Tamimi & Company and has been ranked Band 1 in Chambers & Partners Private Wealth law for 4 years in a row. Dipali has also been shortlisted for the Wealth Management Lawyer of the Year in the Women in Business Law Awards 2023-EMEA and her team has won multiple awards, most recently the 9^th Annual Wealth Briefing MENA Awards for exceptional “Legal advice provision for UHNW individuals, families or wealth managers”. She is a regular speaker at international conferences relating to private wealth, succession and estate planning in the MENA region, newspaper, radio & podcast contributor and has published a number of articles and chapters for the international legal and business community. Dipali is also an active member of Al Tamimi and Company’s India Desk given her large NRI client base.

Dipali is a UAE and English qualified lawyer with over 18 years of experience and launched the Private Client Service practice at Al Tamimi & Company as she saw a gap in the MENA legal market where firms tend not to have a bespoke private client offering, despite the private wealth that resides in the region. As such, Al Tamimi’s Private Client Services department is unique in the regional legal landscape.

Dipali has extensive experience in advising family businesses, high profile and high net worth individuals and family offices on all aspects of their businesses; both local and international, contentious and non-contentious. Her practice is varied and ranges from advising on global asset acquisition and protection, estate and succession planning, structuring and maintaining investment transactions both within the Middle East and outside the region, family and inheritance disputes, personal status related matters, including inheritance, divorce (cross border and local) and settlement agreement, custody of children, alimony, pre-nuptial & post-nuptial agreements and wills & probate. Dipali is fiercely passionate and loyal in finding creative, efficient and effective legal solutions for her clients resulting in her being a trusted adviser in addition to being a senior legal counsel.

Having been raised in a diplomatic environment, Dipali has a high level of cross-cultural competence in addition to her legal expertise, which family businesses, family offices and high net worth individuals operating in the increasingly globalized world of today find invaluable when traversing varying legal landscapes.