Surabhi Singhi

Surabhi Singhi is a Partner in the Corporate Group at Bird & Bird, based in Dubai, where she leads M&A transactions and delivers sophisticated employment law advice to clients. Her practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions.

With over 16 years of experience since qualifying in 2009, she serves as a trusted adviser to multinational corporations, private equity funds, family offices and leading global and regional corporates headquartered in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

She has advised clients across diverse sectors throughout the UAE and GCC, with particular focus in life sciences and healthcare, technology, media and telecommunications, and retail and consumer. She co-chairs the firm's Women-in-Tech initiative for the Middle East.

Her corporate practice encompasses complex regional and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, corporate restructurings, IPOs, business establishment and sophisticated regulatory matters. She has successfully led multiple high-profile, market-defining transactions, guiding clients through intricate deal structures across the Middle East.

Her employment law practice is distinguished by its strategic, business-focused approach. She advises extensively on employment matters affecting UAE companies, from day-to-day HR challenges to complex multi-jurisdictional projects, including sensitive, contentious and investigation matters, employment integration strategies for corporate transactions, and employee mobility including secondments into the UAE.

She regularly speaks on M&A transactions, employment and doing business in the UAE, and her insights are regularly featured in leading publications and industry forums in the life sciences and healthcare sector for the UAE and KSA. She is an active member of the firm's India Steering Group and advises several Indian companies, financial institutions and high net worth individuals on cross-border transactions involving mergers, acquisitions, disposals and investments in the UAE.

She is recognised as a Next Generation Partner for Corporate and M&A and for Employment (United Arab Emirates) by Legal 500 EMEA, in The International A-list by India Business Law Journal (2026), and in the MENA Super 50 Lawyers by Thomson Reuters' Asian Legal Business (2024).