Akbar Ali

Akbar Ali is an Associate with the Dispute Resolution team of Al Tamimi & Company, Dubai, focusing on Arbitration and Mediation. He has over 20 years of overall experience with the firm and specialises in international commercial arbitration.

Akbar is a practising Solicitor of England & Wales with the right to practise law in Dubai, and has been a registered Legal Consultant with the Dubai Legal Affairs Department (DLAD) since 2018.

He has extensive experience in corporate, commercial, construction and real estate dispute resolution through domestic and international commercial arbitration under the rules of DIAC, ICC, LCIA, LMAA, QICCA and UNCITRAL ad hoc proceedings, with substantive civil and common law applications seated in Dubai, DIFC, Qatar, Bahrain and London.

His recent experience includes representing a client in an LCIA arbitration concerning a hotel management and shareholder’s dispute involving US$140 million in dispute under English law seated in Dubai; a DIAC arbitration involving the sale and purchase of multiple units and real estate project finance with AED 150 million in dispute under UAE law; a construction arbitration under the rules of QICCA seated in Qatar involving supply, delivery and installation of stone works with QAR 20 million in dispute under Qatari law; an ICC arbitration with a Singapore seat involving fraudulent transfer of funds and non-payment of freight with US$2.5 million in dispute under English law; and a DIAC arbitration seated in Dubai involving the sale and purchase of over 150 apartments in a Dubai real estate project with AED 90 million in dispute under UAE law.

He holds an MSc in Law, Business and Management (with LPC) from The University of Law, London (2022), an LL.M in International Business Law from Queen Mary University of London (2017), and a Graduate Diploma in Law & Practice from CILEX Law School, London (2015). He was admitted as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 2022, as a Legal Consultant in Dubai in 2018, and as a Legal Executive (FCILEX) in England & Wales in 2018. He speaks English, Hindi and Malayalam.