Stephany Malhame

Stephany Malhame is a bilingual Legal Director in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice of Al Tamimi & Company. Her primary practice area is Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, with a particular focus on restructuring, insolvency, and complex banking and finance disputes across the UAE and the wider region.

She advises financial institutions, corporates and stakeholders on contentious and non-contentious restructuring matters, including distressed debt enforcement, cross-border recovery strategies, shareholder disputes arising in insolvency contexts, and regulatory aspects of financial distress. Her practice spans multi-jurisdictional mandates involving the UAE, Qatar, Lebanon and other regional forums.

She has extensive experience acting in high-value commercial and banking litigation before the Dubai Courts and the Qatar Financial Centre Courts, as well as advising on insolvency-related disputes involving financial institutions and corporate entities. Her work frequently involves complex cross-border financing arrangements, capital markets exposure and restructuring scenarios requiring coordinated strategies across jurisdictions.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi & Company, she practised at a reputable regional law firm in Lebanon and Qatar and held legal roles within two leading multinational companies in the UAE. This combination of private practice and in-house experience enables her to provide commercially focused advice in distressed and restructuring situations.

Her recent experience includes advising corporations on corporate and commercial transactions and disputes including bankruptcy, liquidation, sponsorship, management, corporate governance, debt recovery and shareholder disputes; advising multinational banks on various banking queries and disputes including debt recovery, foreclosure and criminal (fraud and forgery) disputes; and advising international principals on high-profile commercial agency disputes before the Commercial Agencies Committee and UAE Courts.

She holds an LL.M. in Corporate and Commercial Law (with Merit) from the University of London (2015), a Postgraduate Diploma in Laws (with Merit) from the University of London (2013), a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (with Merit) from the University of London (2011) and an LL.B. in Civil Law (Hons) from Sagesse University (2009). She has been a member of the International Bar Association since 2017 and the Beirut Bar Association since 2011. She speaks Arabic, English and French.