Izabella Szadkowska

The 2025 Healthcare Odyssey

Welcome to the first edition of Law Update for 2025. As we begin this exciting year, we are pleased to turn our attention to one of the most dynamic sectors in the UAE and the broader GCC region – healthcare. Over the past several years, the region has seen unprecedented growth in this sector, driven by legislative advancements, technological innovations, and the increasing focus on sustainability and AI. As such, healthcare is set to be one of the most important sectors in the coming decade.

In this issue, we explore key themes that are significantly shaping the future of healthcare in the UAE, such as recent changes in foreign ownership laws. These reforms present a major opportunity for foreign investors, opening up new avenues for international collaborations and improving the overall healthcare infrastructure. The changes in ownership laws are an important milestone, and we provide an analysis of what this means for the industry and the various players involved.

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Izabella Szadkowska

Partner

Biography

Izabella is a Partner in the Corporate Structuring team and specialises in corporate and commercial work, particularly in foreign investment regime, cross-border corporate and regulatory structure design and implementation, capital restructuring work and trust structures advice and assistance.

Izabella’s areas of practice also include economic substance, ultimate/ real beneficial ownership assessment and advice, business formation and corporate services under law of the Dubai International Financial Centre. Her expertise also extends to providing day-to-day legal advice on matters of corporate commercial nature to corporate clients, particularly family businesses, as well as M&A transactions assistance and equity capital markets.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi, Izabella trained at Linklaters LLP and practiced at Clifford Chance LLP and White & Case LLP. She combines private practice and in-house experience, having acted as Head of Group Legal Department for a major UAE conglomerate, Al Rostamani Group.

Recent Experience

Kalyan Jewellers India Limited as lead Partner in relation to its listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India and their subsequent IPO, across the GCC.
Kanoo Group in the sale of certain travel business assets, across the GCC, to American Express Global Business Travel.
TPG Rise Fund in relation to its USD1bn acquisition of Abraaj healthcare fund.
VistaJet in relation to Rhone Capital transaction valuing VistaJet’s equity on a post-money basis in excess of USD2bn.
Aster DM Healthcare as lead Partner in relation to its listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Securities Exchange in India and their subsequent IPO, including complex cross-border restructuring across the GCC.
Gulf Medical Projects Company on the sale of the Al Zahra Hospital Group in the Northern Emirates of the UAE for USD572m.
First Reserve, Inc. in relation to its acquisition of Metallum (EUR670m).
Anglo American in relation to the sale of its Tarmac business in the UAE, Qatar and Oman (transaction value worldwide: GBP885m).