Samir Ghonam

Level Up: Unlocking Financial Potential In The Middle East

Welcome to this edition of Law Update, where we focus on the ever-evolving landscape of financial services regulation across the region. As the financial markets in the region continue to grow and diversify, this issue provides timely insights into the key regulatory developments shaping banking, investment, insolvency, and emerging technologies.

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Samir Ghonam

Senior Counsel

Biography

Samir is a Senior Counsel in the Regional White Collar Crime practice. He is based in Al Tamimi & Company’s Abu Dhabi Office.

Samir has been practising for over 17 years and has been involved in a broad range of litigation cases.

Samir has worked for a number of prestigious law firms in UAE. He has excellent ability to deal with public authorities in UAE and a great experience in managing conflicts. He has the necessary skills to handle individually complex legal cases. He has represented over 1000 corporate and individual clients before courts at all levels in of law: civil, commercial, criminal, labour, family, real estate, administrative, rental cases rental cases. He handles litigation cases at all stages, from initiation to execution.

Samir skilled at maximising expert meetings to the benefit of his clients. He focuses on, and has a wide experience, in Financial Crimes. This includes, but is not limited to, forgery of official and non-official documents, cybercrimes, theft, breach of trust, commercial and non-commercial fraud, infringement of trademarks, bribery and embezzlement of public and private funds.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi & Company, Samir managed his own law firm in Egypt for 12 years. With sound knowledge litigation, he is a well-respected lawyer, recognized by his peers. Samir speaks in different public events. He is a lecturer and an arbitrator in both commercial and civil disputes, possessing multiple other skills.

He is a lecturer at Advocacy Institute in ARE, guiding trainee lawyers, them in the preparation for qualification and training them for their future legal profession. Samir has been a previous member of the Syndicate Committee of Lawyers in ARE and a candidate for a leadership member of the General Bar Association in ARE in 2010.

Recent Experience

Acted for lot of domestic and international companies and individuals, in all manner of financial crimes and related matters, such as:
Corporate fraud.
Forgery and/or (cloning) of Visa card and Master cards.
Breach of trust (embezzlement) from (Banks, Companies and Individuals).
Bribery.
Cyber-crimes.
Assisted clients with internal investigations into violations of criminal and commercial laws.
Assisted local, regional and international corporate clients on corruption issues.
Acted for clients on anti-money laundering issues.