Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy is an English Of Counsel and DIFC-registered advocate at Al Tamimi & Company, based in Dubai International Financial Centre, focusing on Arbitration and Mediation. He has over a decade of experience acting in complex international disputes.

Daniel is part of Al Tamimi’s Advocacy Unit, providing specialist advocacy services to the firm’s dispute resolution clients. He acts as counsel in court litigation and commercial and international investment arbitration.

He has represented clients in disputes in a range of international jurisdictions, including at all levels of the English Courts including the UK Supreme Court, the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts, and the Qatar International Court. He has appeared before various arbitral institutions and has extensive experience of LCIA, ICC, AAA and ICSID arbitrations, as well as acting in expert determination and mediation.

He has acted for and against states, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family businesses and multinational companies from across the world. His disputes have involved a range of applicable laws and many different sectors and activities including banking, cryptocurrency, construction, mining, share purchase transactions, charities, hotels, fashion and art.

His recent experience includes acting for a cryptocurrency business in seeking a worldwide freezing injunction in relation to a US$450 million fraud in the DIFC Courts; acting for one of the largest family businesses in the MENA region in a family wealth dispute in an LCIA arbitration; acting for an Indian public company in a construction contractual dispute relating to projects in Oman in an ICC arbitration; acting for a financial advisory business in the GCC in disputes with Qatari investors before the Qatar International Court; acting for a respondent African state in successfully defending an ICSID claim relating to alleged expropriation of mining concessions; and acting for an Abu Dhabi investment fund in a fraud claim in the English High Court concerning a share purchase.

He holds an MA in Jurisprudence (First Class) and a BCL from Christ Church, University of Oxford. He was admitted as a Barrister of England & Wales in 2011 and as a Part II Registered Advocate of the DIFC Court, Dubai, in 2025. He speaks English.