Nawel Benaisa

Nawel Benaisa is a Senior Associate at Al Tamimi & Company, based in Abu Dhabi. Her practice focuses on Tax Law, advising on international and domestic tax matters.

Nawel has experience across international corporate transactions, investment structuring and private wealth planning. She acts for multinational groups, investment funds, corporates and private clients on matters involving corporate tax, cross-border tax treaties, the application of international tax principles and the implementation of new tax regimes.

She also advises high-net-worth individuals and family offices on cross-border asset structuring and the tax implications of long-term relocation. Her work includes both advisory and transactional matters, often involving multi-jurisdictional considerations and the interaction between domestic tax laws and international frameworks.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi & Company, Nawel worked at leading European and international law firms.

Her recent experience includes advising a GCC Ministry of Finance on the drafting and implementation of transformational tax legislation in the region; advising a government-linked investment entity on the Corporate Tax treatment of real estate investments; advising a publicly traded global energy trading group on the UAE Corporate Tax aspects of a regional restructuring, including Pillar Two exposure modelling under the GloBE rules; and assisting a UAE-based holding group on the re-domiciliation and consolidation of its international shipping operations.

She also advised a leading global energy and trading company on the UAE Corporate Tax structuring of its cross-border commodity, carbon and sulphur trading operations, and advised the principal of a prominent international business family on the UAE tax considerations of relocating to the region.

She holds a Bachelor of Law (2014) and a Master of Law (2017) from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and was admitted as a Qualified Lawyer and member of the Brussels Bar (Belgium) in 2018. She speaks English, French and Arabic (Moroccan dialect).