Shiraz Khan

Shiraz Khan is a Partner and Head of Taxation at Al Tamimi & Company, based in the Dubai International Financial Centre. He is a UK-qualified lawyer with over 23 years of international tax experience. His practice focuses on Tax Law.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi & Company, Shiraz was the global head of tax at a leading multinational, where he was responsible for the tax affairs in over 100 countries. He has also worked for a top international law firm in the UK and Big 4 firms in both the UK and the Middle East.

Shiraz specialises in advising on international tax structuring and tax aspects of cross-border M&A, private equity, structured finance, Islamic finance and real estate transactions. He has in-depth knowledge and expertise across all taxes, including corporate tax, withholding taxes and VAT, in a wide range of industry sectors.

He has particular expertise in advising multinational corporations on structuring their investments and operations into the region, and financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, real estate investment companies, family offices and private equity groups based in the region on their international investments. He regularly speaks at conferences and seminars on international tax issues and has been involved in advising governments on the drafting of tax laws.

His recent experience includes structuring investments totalling USD1.5 billion across Europe and the United States for a global real estate fund, advising a private equity firm on a EUR2 billion pan-European acquisition of a large engineering group, providing tax due diligence and structuring support for a Gulf bank's acquisition of a banking group in 13 countries across the Middle East and Asia, advising a sovereign wealth fund on various debt and equity investments into the United States, and providing tax advice to a Shariah-compliant bank in connection with the issue of a USD750 million ijara-backed sukuk.

He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from King's College and completed his Professional Bar Qualification at the Inns of Court School of Law, UK. He speaks English.