Hadeer Ahmed

Hadeer Ahmed is an Associate in the Transport and Insurance practice at Al Tamimi & Company, based in the firm’s Dubai office, focusing on Maritime Law. She joined the team in July 2024 and has nine years of experience in the Middle East, specialising in dispute resolution with a strong focus on maritime, insurance, commercial and civil litigation.

She advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters, regularly acting on complex charterparty disputes, marine claims, vessel arrests and international trade matters. She has significant experience representing clients before UAE courts and is well-versed in local litigation strategy and procedure.

Her background also includes corporate and transactional work, including insolvency, restructuring and M&A, gained from roles at leading regional and international law firms. Her practice area is shipping, aviation and logistics, and her sector is transport and logistics.

Her recent experience includes advising on and handling charterparty disputes, ship arrests, international trade issues and related maritime claims; representing clients in complex, high-value litigation before UAE courts; assisting a client in securing and recovering overdue debt exceeding AED 300 million; drafting and negotiating a series of sale and resale agreements, including complex multi-jurisdictional guarantee structures involving the UAE, Egypt and KSA, collectively valued at over AED 100 million; representing a client in a high-stakes maritime dispute concerning off-specification marine fuel supplied by a UAE-based supplier, involving civil counterclaims and parallel criminal proceedings; collaborating with a Swiss law firm to initiate legal proceedings in Switzerland against the counterparty’s head office, seeking US$27 million in damages for the wrongful arrest of the client’s vessel; and assisting a client in an insurance-related dispute arising from the wrongful arrest of their vessel.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Master of Law (LLM), and is registered with the Egyptian Bar Association. She speaks English and Arabic.