Mehrul Arora

Mehrul Arora is an Associate in the Banking and Finance department at Al Tamimi & Company, with a primary focus on Banking and Finance Law. She has experience across a wide range of areas within the field, with a strong focus on corporate lending, aircraft finance, trade finance and security creation in the UAE and the DIFC.

She has advised corporate clients and financial institutions on marketing, offering and providing financial products and services to customers in the DIFC and the UAE. She also has particular expertise in advising financial institutions on the UAE Central Bank's consumer protection regulation and standards.

Her recent experience includes advising Apollo Global Management, Inc. on a USD 400 million deal to acquire an 11.1% minority stake in ALDAR Investment Properties, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi-listed Aldar Properties PJSC; acting for SMBC Aviation Capital Limited as UAE counsel in connection with the asset sale and leaseback of several Airbus A320-200 aircraft; and acting as counsel for Saudi National Bank, United Arab Emirates on a consumer protection project to ensure compliance with the UAE Central Bank's consumer protection regulation and standards.

She also drafts security documents under UAE, DIFC and ADGM laws, and capacity, authority and enforceability legal opinions in relation to financing transactions under those laws. She holds a B.A. LLB (Hons) from Uttaranchal University (2020) and was admitted as an Advocate to the Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana, India in 2021. She speaks English and Hindi.