Anand Singh

Anand Singh is a Legal Director with over 11 years of experience advising stakeholders of the insurance industry on various contentious and non-contentious matters. His primary practice area is Insurance Law, with particular expertise in transactional and regulatory advisory for the insurance sector.

His clients range from public stock companies, insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, financial services companies, fintech and other startups across multiple jurisdictions. He started his career in India and is part of the India Group at Al Tamimi.

He is ranked as a Notable Practitioner in Chambers and Partners for Fintech Practice and Insurance & Reinsurance, and is consistently recognised as one of the go-to lawyers for India-related work by India Business Law Journal. He is regularly featured in magazines and newspapers in the UAE on insurance-related publications.

His recent experience includes acting as lead counsel for the buyer on the acquisition of a UAE insurance company, involving negotiating the term sheet, due diligence for the target, transactional support, negotiating the SPA, structuring of the holding group, licensing and approvals from the regulators, until the rebranding of the entity, and post-transaction advice on the corporate governance framework under UAE laws and setting up of the internal committees of the insurance company.

He is acting for a global financial services consultancy on its acquisition of an insurance brokerage in the UAE, including identifying the target, regulatory due diligence, drafting of the sale documents, negotiation and licensing and registrations following the acquisition and rebranding. He has also advised a number of insurance stakeholders on the applicability and implementation of the Electronic Insurance Regulation, including making applications and getting approvals from the UAE Central Bank.

Other matters include advising a number of IPMI providers on their market entry across the Middle East, product strategy, compliance requirements, distribution arrangements and fronting arrangements with local cedants; acting as counsel to a number of third-party administrators (TPAs) based in the UAE to assist them with their day-to-day arrangements, including regulatory advice, vendor agreements, hospital agreements, payer agreements and government contracts; and advising a Cyprus-based startup insurance entity on the regulatory requirements and structures in the DIFC, assisting with end-to-end licensing with the DFSA as a Category 4 entity and set-up in the DIFC, and post set-up support.

He holds a BBA.LLB (Hons) from the Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Dehradun, India (2005–10). He was admitted to the India Bar Examination in 2011 and in England & Wales in 2023. He speaks Hindi and English.