Nazanin Maghsoudlou

Nazanin Maghsoudlou is Of Counsel at Al Tamimi & Company, based in Dubai International Financial Centre, focusing on Corporate Law. She has extensive experience advising domestic and multi-national corporations across various sectors, both listed and unlisted.

Since joining Al Tamimi, she has represented clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters including due diligence mandates, structuring and restructuring of businesses, advice on optimal acquisition structures, preparation of transaction documents for share acquisitions of corporate entities, and has been involved with dissolution and liquidation, M&A, joint ventures, incorporation and transfer of incorporation under the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

Nazanin has hands-on experience in diverse jurisdictions such as the UK, the UAE and Iran, bridging gaps between cultures and legal systems through her understanding of common law, codified law and sharia law. She is a specialist on Iranian law, regularly advising clients on the full suite of corporate matters, including Iran sanctions, the implications of JCPOA and OFAC prohibited exports, imports, transshipment and trade-related transactions.

Her recent experience includes assisting on legal due diligence mandates for acquisitions for major regional groups, including a leading healthcare group with more than 323 healthcare establishments across 9 countries; advising one of the largest education companies in the region on the restructuring of its regional group in the UAE and drafting the relevant commercial agreements; advising a major worldwide player in the telecommunications industry on corporate governance and corporate structuring following the acquisition of several regional groups; and advising a major aviation company on its commercial agreements with the UAE Government.

Nazanin also has a substantial legal pedigree in civil litigation in the UK, having conducted cases in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in London. While practising in the UK, she spearheaded all phases of the high-profile Supreme Court case R (on the application of Dalvinder Gujra) v CPS [2012] UKSC 52, from hearing in the High Court to successful Supreme Court petitioning and hearing, and was later interviewed on BBC Radio 4 in relation to this case.

She is a full Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and a member of the Energy Institute, the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Legal Action Group. She holds a Work Based Learning qualification from the University of Nottingham (2012), a Legal Practice Course from the University of Law (2010), and an LLB Law (Hons) from Greenwich University (2007). She was admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales in 2012 and speaks English and Farsi (Persian).