Member Profiles

Al Hefeiti Advocates and Legal Consultants is duly licensed to perform legal service and advocacy in the UAE reaching out to local and UAE based International clients. It has steadily grown to have established office in Dubai. Among Al Hefeiti Advocates strong practice areas are labor, corporate & commercial, banking, maritime & transport, litigation & arbitration and real estate. We provide efficient legal representation to our clients both in the regional and international levels. We take pride in providing local and international clients with cost effective and efficient legal advice and representation across a range of practice areas and industry sectors. Our reputation expands over providing clients with what they value: exceptional and sound legal advice, responsiveness, and practical solutions delivered with the highest level of professional integrity. We are clear and straightforward in our approach and our aim is to work closely with our clients to devise quick problem solving strategies that cater to our client's particular interest, needs and objectives.

I represent clients on a wide variety of corporate transactions, projects, regulatory and commercial matters.  I advise on M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate structuring and reorganizations, pre-dispute strategy and a wide range of commercial contracts.  I counsel clients doing business across the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and South East Asia.  The work often involves advice on foreign direct investment, in conjunction with local counsel when necessary, and I have worked on several novel projects in frontier markets. My extensive oil and gas sector experience has been recognised by several independent legal directories, such as Chambers & Partners and Who’s Who Legal. The other sectors in which I have worked include: real estate, mining, power, education, hospitality, FMCG and sports.  I have also spent time in-house on secondment.  This variety of experience has provided me with a broad commercial perspective on matters. I am an English qualified solicitor and have practised at three of the world’s premier energy firms: Baker Botts, Fulbright & Jaworski and Dentons.  I worked for international law firms in London and Cairo before moving to Dubai full time in 2005.

Specialised in Family Law since 1998. He is the founding & managing partner of both Al Gharib Law Firms in Abu Dhabi & Dubai. He represents clients in divorce, custody, inheritance, wills and guardianship. Licensed advocate for all federal courts (District, Appeal, Cassation & Supreme Court). A member of scientific association for legal studies associated to the School of Law in Alexandria University, Arab Republic of Egypt. Has authored publications on various legal issues; dealt with several legal aspects such as drugs and criminal offense, as well as personal affairs issues such as: alimony, civil rights and commercial issues. He was a speaker on a TV Programme called Al Mohamun (The Lawyers) in UAE. He speaks three languages: Arabic, English and Farsi. The Al Gharib & Associates and Legal Consultants is highly reputable law firm and being the first e-law firm that provides e-services in the entire UAE.

Karteekka Tyaggi is a corporate attorney, who started her career with civil and criminal litigation in India. She then moved on to work in the United Arab Emirates and gained experience in claims related to employment, divorce, child custody and women’s rights. Around the same time, she also gained substantial experience in arbitration as well as commercial and corporate legal practice, having advised multi-jurisdictional corporates, government entities and individuals on a wide range of matters including, cross-border disputes, commercial transactions, compliance and corporate social responsibility, mergers & acquisition, banking & finance, data protection and compliance and regulatory. During this time, she dealt with several cross border issues and matters having worked with clients from Europe, Middle East and Asia. She is a certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist, an experienced succession and estate planning attorney and in addition to the aforementioned subjects, she offers advisory on matters related to human rights, anti-harassment, equality, diversity & inclusion. In December, 2019 Karteekka moved to Geneva and now manages her legal practice between Geneva, India and UAE. At the same time, she is working with respect to issues related to sexual harassment, gender issues, children’s rights and human rights claims.

The firm has extensive experience in advising private clients including high net-worth clients and families (having businesses / assets across multiple jurisdictions and industry sectors) on their succession and estate planning matters including establishing trust and foundation structures, Wills, family constitutions and shareholders agreements. Our Experience extends to advising listed and unlisted corporate entities on all aspects of corporate law, corporate governance matters, government bids, joint ventures and shareholder related matters (including dispute resolution), commercial arbitration and court approved amalgamations.