Khalid Al Hamrani

Legal Visions, Healing Touch: Shaping the Future of Healthcare

The first Law Update of 2024 is here, and our first focus of the year spotlights Healthcare and Lifesciences, a sector that is undergoing significant growth and development across the MENA region.

Our focus provides an insight into some of the most important regulatory updates across the region, such as the UAE’s groundbreaking law on the use of human genome, Kuwait’s resolution on nuclear and radioactive materials, the new regulations for healthcare services in Qatar, Egypt’s healthcare regulatory framework, and the impact of the Saudi Civil Transactions Law on the healthcare and life sciences sector … and there is so much more!

Beyond the healthcare pages our lawyers share with you multi-sector insights where you will discover articles on Dubai’s DIFC regulatory framework for startups, Bahrain’s commercial agencies law, and we also shed light on Kuwaiti civil code and the advantages of setting up a joint stock company in Saudi Arabia.

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Khalid Al Hamrani

Partner, Head of Financial Crime

Biography

Khalid is a Partner and the Head of the Financial Crime practice in Dubai.

Khalid has extensive experience representing government owned corporations, financial institutions and high profile clients in corporate commercial fraud, bribery and money laundering cases including multiple jurisdictions. Khalid has also dealt with compliance and regulatory matters involving government authorities in the UAE along with forgery and embezzlement related matters.

Recent Experience

Acting for one of the major banks in the UAE in a money laundering matter under UAE money laundering laws in order to recover many millions of Dirhams;
Advising and leading an investigation on behalf of a major government entity in the UAE which resulted in convictions against several former corrupt officials;
Attending the High Court in London to give evidence as an expert witness in relation to UAE law and regulations on behalf of a UAE bank involved in UK proceedings which resulted in the court giving judgment favorable to our client;
Managing the initiation of an internal investigation on behalf a public entity and advising and ensuring that urgent preemptive measures were undertaken in order to preserve the evidence, secure the presence of the suspects, and prevent the dissipation of funds and assets which had been misappropriated. Having successfully preserved the integrity of the investigation, the matter proceeded with our assistance to the opening of a formal investigation by the Public Prosecutor.