Vida Grace Serrano

Vida Grace Serrano is a Senior Associate in the firm's Corporate Law and Commercial practice at Alsuwaidi & Company, based in the Dubai office. She advises public and private sector clients on complex cross-border corporate and commercial transactions throughout the Middle East and beyond, with a practice spanning mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations, and digitalisation projects.

Her recent work includes landmark digital payments initiatives for government regulators, multi-jurisdictional acquisitions in the technology, energy, and healthcare sectors, structuring intellectual property holdings and franchising frameworks for regional brands, and supporting government-linked companies with capital raising and entity conversions. She works closely with regulators, multinational enterprises, regional family offices, and entrepreneurs across sectors including real estate, oil and gas, financial services, and consumer goods.

Vida holds an LLM from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, where she was a Dean's Merit Scholar, and a Juris Doctor from San Beda University – College of Law in Manila, where she was admitted to the Bar as one of the country's Top 5% lawyers. She also holds a BSc in Business Management with Honors from De La Salle University, Manila. She is a member of the DIAC 40 Young Practitioners Group.