Fadi Hassoun
Senior Partner & Head of Abu Dhabi office
PRACTICE AREA:
Commercial, Compliance and Regulatory, Corporate, Family Business and Private Client, Real Estate and PropertyFadi Hassoun is a senior partner at Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants, managing the Abu Dhabi office. He is a qualified lawyer with over 22 years of work experience in Lebanon and the UAE. Fadi specializes in corporate and commercial matters, litigation, and dispute resolution, with a focus on the practice areas of insurance, real estate, employment and labour, financial crime, and criminal law in the UAE and throughout the GCC region.
Fadi’s corporate experience is extremely varied, he recently restructured a USD130 million local Emirati family group following the passing away of its founding member, which included the implementation of a new corporate governance structure for all subsidiaries and executing tax optimization on an operational level in four different jurisdictions – United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Colombia and the United States of America.
Fadi’s negotiating skills are revered; as such, he led negotiations and closed a corporate restructuring scheme agreement valued at 1.4 billion Dirhams between one of the Middle East’s largest banks and a prominent local entity. His experience with joint ventures includes assisting and advising a leading UAE master developer to establish a multi-million USD joint venture related to a construction project in the UAE and Morocco and advising and assisting an entertainment company on a joint venture project with a local Abu Dhabi entity.
His client list is diverse and includes governmental entities, international conglomerates, oil and gas companies, insurance companies, real estate developers, and advertising and publishing companies.
Prior to joining Galadari, he was the head of the Abu Dhabi office of a prominent local law firm in the UAE. Prior to that, he worked with Beirut Legal as a Partner and Naoum Farah Law Firm heading the litigation department in Beirut, Lebanon.
Bars and Courts
- Beirut Bar Association
Academic Profile
- LLB in Private and Public Law, La Sagesse University
- Diploma in Business and Corporate Law, University of Montpellier
Languages
- Arabic
- French
- English
Practice Focus
- Insurance claims
- Commercial and corporate
- Dispute resolution
- Construction and Real estate
- Employment
- Criminal law
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