Handled a portfolio of ADGM Court possession and debt-recovery claims for a leading UAE real-estate manager: judgments secured, enforcement ongoing.
Counsel, engineered for the outcome. Shuhail Ahamed, Senior Counsel at Noura Almaazmi Advocates. International arbitration, commercial disputes, and real estate in the UAE.
Shuhail Ahamed advises developers, institutions, and high-net-worth clients at Noura Almaazmi Advocates on arbitration, commercial disputes, and real estate across the UAE and cross-border. He spent fifteen years as an engineer before he read law, and he still works like one: every matter taken apart to its load-bearing facts, the opposing case stress-tested before it is argued, the outcome planned several moves ahead. It shows in a construction file, and just as clearly in a shareholder fight or a regulatory investigation.
Practice
Six practices. One method.
01
International Arbitration
When a counterparty walks, stalls, or hides behind a foreign award: DIAC and institutional arbitration run end-to-end, plus enforcement and resistance of foreign awards under the New York Convention.
02
Commercial & Civil Litigation
When a deal turns and the money starts moving: freezing orders, asset recovery, and high-stakes claims before the Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Federal, DIFC and ADGM courts.
03
Real Estate & Construction
When a handover is late, an escrow is contested, or the defects are structural: off-plan and RERA disputes, developer–investor claims, and construction contracts, read by someone who has actually built.
04
Corporate & M&A
After the deal is signed, the hard part: structuring, acquisitions, shareholder disputes, and post-merger integration across large, multi-entity groups.
05
Regulatory & Enforcement
When the regulator starts asking questions: white-collar defence, investigations, cross-border enforcement, and recognition of foreign judgments, handled before they become headlines.
06
Technology & Digital Assets
When a dispute lives in code, tokens, or data: technology contracts, VARA and digital-asset regulation, argued by counsel who can read the system, not just the SLA.
Services
Disputes, arbitration, and real estate across the UAE and cross-border
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International & DIAC arbitration
Enforcement of foreign arbitral awards
Commercial & civil litigation
Freezing orders & precautionary attachment
Recognition of foreign judgments
Off-plan, RERA & escrow disputes
Construction & FIDIC claims
Mergers, acquisitions & foreign ownership
Shareholder & joint-venture disputes
Sanctions, AML/CFT & white-collar
Virtual assets & VARA licensing
Data protection & cybercrime
The method
Several moves
ahead.
An engineer's discipline, applied to disputes: every matter taken apart to its load-bearing facts, the opposing case stress-tested, and the outcome planned before the first filing.
Track record
Judgments secured. Awards obtained. Enforcement pursued to recovery.
Handling a DIAC arbitration for a UAE technology and engineering contractor, tribunal constitution underway.
Won a commercial appeal: dismissed and the judgment affirmed, with costs and the security deposit forfeited against the appellant.
Defending an AED 5.6m construction and commercial claim for an engineering contractor, proceedings stayed pending a related appeal.
Obtained attachment and freezing orders over a contractor's trade licence, premises, transactions and bank accounts in an AED 3.2m recovery.
Acting for a major Dubai developer across multiple RERA and real-estate disputes before the Dubai courts.
Secured an award before ArbitrateAD in a shareholder and commercial dispute; a further reference is at the submissions stage.
Handled an AED 8.46m commercial dispute for a facilities-management group: judgment secured, enforcement in progress.
Handled contractor appeals and cheque-execution objections in engineering and contracting disputes.
Handling enforcement and execution files across the Dubai and Abu Dhabi courts, asset and staged-instalment recovery.
Handled service-charge recovery for a jointly-owned-property association across the Dubai rental and commercial courts.
Handling commercial and partial-commercial claims across the Dubai courts, carried from rejoinder to judgment.
Handled white-collar and criminal-defence matters before the UAE criminal courts.
Acting in labour and employment disputes and ministerial-decision executions across the UAE.
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Firm Noura Almaazmi Advocates & Legal Consultancy
Office Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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