Rachel Morgan

Rachel Morgan is Of Counsel in the Employment & Incentives practice at Al Tamimi & Company, based in Dubai, focusing on Employment Law. She advises local and international clients on the full range of transactional, advisory and contentious employment matters in the UAE, onshore and within the various free zones, including the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).

Rachel is an England and Wales qualified solicitor with over 13 years’ experience in private practice, combining technical excellence with calm, pragmatic and solutions-focused advice.

She has significant transactional experience, having advised on numerous complex cross-border matters including carve-outs, acquisitions and disposals spanning multiple jurisdictions, as well as post-closing advice including workforce integration, incentivisation and management changes. She has extensive expertise supporting clients through complex and sensitive workplace investigations, spanning grievances and whistleblowing reports on serious misconduct, discrimination and harassment issues, acting both as an adviser and an external independent investigator. Her broader advisory and contentious experience encompasses senior executive appointments and exits, enforcement of restrictive covenants, advice on bonus and incentive structures, and UK tribunal and High Court proceedings.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi & Company, Rachel spent over a decade in a leading employment law team at a Magic Circle firm in London. She has also undertaken a number of secondments to in-house legal and HR teams of a variety of financial services firms.

Her recent experience includes advising a multinational company in administration on employee transfer and end of service gratuity issues arising from the sale of parts of its business; advising an international consultancy firm on a settlement agreement following allegations of disability discrimination constructive dismissal; and advising an international financial services firm on establishing an entity in the UAE, including draft employment contracts and consultancy arrangements. Previously, she advised Unilever on the separation of its ice cream business involving carve-out arrangements in over 50 jurisdictions, and Tate & Lyle on its US$1.8 billion acquisition of CP Kelco.

Rachel holds a Legal Practice Course from BPP Law School (2010) and an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of East Anglia (2009). She was admitted as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 2013 and speaks English.