Midya Omar

Midya Omar is a Senior Tax Advisor at Al Tamimi & Company, based in Dubai International Financial Centre, focusing on Tax Advisory Law. With over 11 years of experience, she has developed extensive expertise in international and corporate tax matters, with a particular focus on corporate structuring for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs), family businesses and multinational groups.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi, Midya worked for a prestigious tax consulting firm in Dubai and Sweden, focusing on corporate taxation and private client services including regional and cross-border tax matters such as establishing business, transparency, restructuring of ownership, setting up family offices, succession planning using trusts or foundations, and asset protection.

Her recent experience includes assisting a well-known UAE family business in restructuring its ownership and consolidating assets to ensure compliance with UAE Corporate Tax and VAT regulations while facilitating a smooth succession to the next generation, including advising on a tax-efficient structure using a UAE foundation and an underlying holding entity and securing tax-transparent treatment from the Federal Tax Authority; advising high-profile U.S. clients on establishing bespoke succession and wealth-holding structures in the UAE using UAE-based foundations; providing advisory services to a prominent Saudi Arabian family on international and cross-border tax matters, including compliance with global transparency standards such as FATCA and CRS; advising a leading family business on the redomiciliation of its family office from Switzerland to the DIFC; advising a high-net-worth UAE family on structuring international assets in Europe and the US to achieve tax efficiency and minimise UAE tax, inheritance tax exposure in France, the UK and the US; and providing strategic tax advisory services to a renowned multinational group on restructuring its investments across the UK, Africa and Asia using the UAE as a central holding jurisdiction.

She also provides tax services to an international oil and gas group from a UAE corporate tax perspective, considering the impact of BEPS Pillar 2, including pre-exit reorganisation, profit repatriation planning, tax residency considerations, permanent establishment risk mitigation, deemed disposals and regulatory compliance. She has advised an international shipping group on the redomiciliation of its holding structure to the UAE, and completed a secondment at a multinational investment bank reviewing internal policies related to client onboarding, focusing on tax compliance and global tax transparency requirements.

She holds a Master of Law (LLM) from Uppsala University (2014) and a Bachelor of Science from Uppsala University and Sungkyunkwan University (2013). Her practice areas are tax, and family business and private client. She speaks English, Swedish and Kurdish.