Khadija Hussain

Khadija Hussain is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Team at Al Tamimi & Company’s Dubai office, focusing on Corporate Law. She has worked on multiple structuring transactions with extensive advisory on design and implementation.

She specialises in free zone structuring work: design, incorporation and transfer of domicile in respect of numerous free zones such as the Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, Dubai World Trade Centre, Jebel Ali Free Zone, and mainland entities. She has also advised clients in relation to foreign investment and the beneficial ownership regime in the UAE.

Since joining Al Tamimi, Khadija has assisted in advising on corporate and regulatory compliance, due diligence on corporate entities, commercial agreements, share purchase agreements, memoranda and articles of association and their amendments, change of directors and officers of companies, and has undertaken administrative procedures to implement changes in corporate forms and reorganisation.

Her recent experience includes assisting Lulu Group in restructuring their entities; Wanbao Mining (Hong Kong) Limited, a Chinese mining company, regarding the design and implementation of a partnership with Managem group concerning mining projects in Africa; Saudi German Hospital in relation to restructuring of UAE entities; Amana Group on the optimal regional holding structure; GEMS Education in restructuring their group entities in UAE for shareholders’ exit through a private placement; a multinational entity on the re-domiciliation of foreign corporate entities and a foundation to the DIFC; and an international global conglomerate in the IT and consumer goods sectors on a business carve-out implementation.

She also formed part of the team advising a prominent Emirati family on a trust structure implementation, a leading Dubai healthcare services provider on policy and procedures to obtain Dubai Health Authority approvals, and a regional conglomerate and operator of one of the largest retail chains in the UAE on procedures for obtaining a liquor licence.

She holds a Bachelor of Law from Government Law College (2013). She was admitted as an Advocate in Maharashtra and Goa, India, in 2014 and is a licensed Legal Consultant with the Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department. She speaks English, Hindi and Gujarati.