Alyzeh Zahid

Alyzeh Zahid is Of Counsel in the Corporate team at Al Tamimi & Company, based in Dubai International Financial Centre, focusing on Mergers and Acquisitions. She has over a decade advising on complex corporate work across the Middle East and internationally.

Her practice spans local and cross-border M&A, capital markets and IPOs (onshore and on overseas exchanges), shareholder and joint venture arrangements, group restructurings, and ongoing counsel to boards. She acts for public companies, private groups, sovereign-linked entities and regional family businesses across mainland UAE, the DIFC and ADGM.

Her recent experience includes leading the carve-out of the Salik business and advising on Salik Company PJSC’s IPO on the DFM as part of the Dubai Government privatisation programme; advising Yalla Group Limited on its IPO and listing on the New York Stock Exchange; advising Priora Management Holding on the acquisition of Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa; advising Queens Gambit Growth Capital on a US$1.5 billion business combination with SWVL, the largest Middle East-based ‘unicorn’ to go public on NASDAQ; advising on the investment by Softbank Group into Kitopi; advising Dar Al Arkan Real Estate Development on its acquisition of a majority stake in Compass Project Investments; guiding Gulf Medical’s sale of Al Zahra Hospital in Sharjah for AED 2.06 billion, the largest healthcare acquisition in five years in the Arabian Gulf; advising Aster DM Healthcare on its listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange as foreign counsel; advising Anglo American on the sale of its Tarmac business in the UAE, Qatar and Oman; and advising Meraas Holding on the IPO of Dubai Parks & Resorts PJSC.

She also advises top-tier companies on private sector acquisitions across the pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, education, leisure and retail industries, and advises regional high-net-worth individuals and family businesses on family business restructuring and succession planning.

Alyzeh also writes on governance and regulation in the region, most recently on Directors’ Duties During Geopolitical Instability (May 2026). Her practice area is corporate / mergers and acquisitions. She holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Bristol (2007), an LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law from University College London (2009), and was called to the Bar as a Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn (2010). She was admitted to the Karachi Bar Association in 2009, the Sindh High Court Bar Association in 2011 and the Sindh Bar Council in 2011. She speaks English, Hindi and Urdu.