Sakher Alaqaileh

Sakher Alaqaileh is a Legal Director and a member of the Transport and Insurance team based in Dubai. His primary practice area is Maritime Law, and he is highly involved in shipping, maritime and insurance matters.

His experience as a marine and insurance lawyer is focused on litigation and dispute resolution. He has represented prominent insurance and insurance-related companies, major P&I Clubs, vessel owners, freight forwarders and marine agents in litigation matters from inception through trial, including before courts and insurance and marine experts.

He advises on insurance liability, cargo claims, marine debts and insurance claims, and acts for numerous shipping and aviation companies and insurance, broker and underwriter companies in litigation concerning cargo claims, personal injury claims and aircraft damage claims, as well as supporting the seizure and arrest of regionally based assets. This requires the preparation of pre-litigation advice, reviewing and filing powers of attorney, statements, petitions, motions, notices and pleadings, analysing legal claims and litigation, and developing strategies for successful outcomes.

He takes part in due diligence exercises on major insurance and insurance-related companies, which involve reviewing their corporate documents, insurance policies and agreements, and advises on complex matters related to commercial agreements, criminal actions, corporate insurance and shipping. He also advises clients on the full range of ship finance, including enforcement of mortgages over vessels.

In addition, he has experience in financial and banking-related issues and a profound knowledge of banking laws and regulations, with vast experience in maritime and banking litigation and dispute advisory services. His main duties have included representing prominent financiers and banks in contentious financing disputes such as debt recovery, as well as representing financial services institutions in many foreclosure and Islamic finance (including Islamic leasing arrangements, i.e. Ijarah) enforcement procedures. He also provides legal advice to banks on banking matters including foreclosure, Islamic finance issues (i.e. Murabaha and Ijarah) and day-to-day operations.

He holds an MA in Commercial Law and Maritime Law from Hertfordshire University (2009) and a BA in Law from the University of Jordan (2007). He was admitted to the Jordan Bar Association in 2011 and speaks Arabic and English.