Mohamed Gaber Abdelsabour

Mohamed Gaber Abdelsabour is a dual-qualified Legal Director with over 15 years of experience working in three jurisdictions in the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on Commercial Litigation.

He has extensive international and regional experience managing high-profile, multi-jurisdictional, complex civil and commercial litigation and dispute resolution. He also has experience in domestic arbitrations and in reviewing and drafting civil and commercial agreements, as well as in corporate structuring and corporate and commercial matters.

Before joining Al Tamimi & Company, Mohamed was a legal manager for a public listed company, where he managed a legal department of seven team members who were recognised and listed in The Legal 500 GC Power list: Middle East Teams.

His recent experience includes advising on the enforcement of international arbitral awards in the UAE and securing a favourable order from the UAE Federal Court for enforcing an international arbitral award worth USD 2.4 billion; advising and representing a renowned oil and gas company in a successful appeal before the UAE Supreme Court to set aside a judgment of more than AED 1.055 billion; acting for a national bank in enforcing mortgage deeds worth more than AED 1.5 billion; and managing a dispute for a leading regional energy company involving international holders of a disputed USD 700 million sukuk.

He also advised an investment company on a shareholders’ dispute in a landmark real-estate project in Dubai, represented a construction company on creditors’ claims restructuring declared by the subcontractor Drake & Scull, and advised an American multinational investment bank on the liquidation of equity plan securities under UAE laws.

Mohamed holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Administrative Law (2008) and a Bachelor of Law (2006) from Alexandria University. He was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association in 2007, to the Appeal Court of Egypt in 2015, and as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales in 2019. He speaks Arabic and English.