Paula Villegas Guevara

Paula Villegas Guevara is a Senior Associate at Habib Al Mulla, based in the United Arab Emirates. She is a corporate/commercial lawyer with over 10 years of experience, and her practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions.

Her practice includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts, shareholders agreements, share purchase agreements, licensing agreements, corporate structuring and restructuring, and onshore and offshore business set-up.

She has advised members of UAE ruling families on the corporate restructuring of UAE entities, including the conversion of the legal type of existing entities and the incorporation of new entities.

She holds a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain (2012), and completed exchange programmes at Sogang University in South Korea (2011), Bocconi University in Milan (2010/2011) and HEC Montreal (2009/2010).

She was admitted to the Bar Association of Lucena (Spain) in 2012 and registered with the Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department in 2017. She speaks Spanish and English.