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Find out moreReal estate, construction, and hospitality are at the forefront of transformation across the Middle East – reshaping cities, driving investment, and demanding increasingly sophisticated legal frameworks.
In the June edition of Law Update, we take a closer look at the legal shifts influencing the sector – from Dubai’s new Real Estate Investment Funds Law and major reforms in Qatar, to Bahrain’s push toward digitalisation in property and timeshare regulation. We also explore practical issues around strata, zoning, joint ventures, and hotel management agreements that are critical to navigating today’s market.
As the landscape becomes more complex, understanding the legal dynamics behind these developments is key to making informed, strategic decisions.
2025 is set to be a game-changer for the MENA region, with legal and regulatory shifts from 2024 continuing to reshape its economic landscape. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, and Bahrain are all implementing groundbreaking reforms in sustainable financing, investment laws, labor regulations, and dispute resolution. As the region positions itself for deeper global integration, businesses must adapt to a rapidly evolving legal environment.
Our Eyes on 2025 publication provides essential insights and practical guidance on the key legal updates shaping the year ahead—equipping you with the knowledge to stay ahead in this dynamic market.
Khushboo is a Partner with Al Tamimi & Company focusing on international dispute resolution and arbitration. She is dual qualified in Singapore and New York. She has a particular focus on construction, infrastructure, energy, financial, joint venture and real estate development arbitrations. Her experience includes international arbitration matters under the rules of the ICC, SIAC, DIAC, LCIA, LMAA, QICCA, JAMS, SCC, as well as ad-hoc arbitration proceedings under the UNCITRAL rules and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Khushboo has been recognised in the Asian Legal Business MENA Super 50 Lawyers 2024, is ranked as a Global Elite Thought Leaders Under 45 in Arbitration and as a Future Leader in Construction in Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal) as well as a Rising Star by Legal 500 for her expertise in construction disputes. Khushboo was also recently shortlisted for the IFLR Women in Business Law Awards 2025 in the EMEA Commercial Arbitration category. Her clients describe her as “a stand our performer in this team. She is commercially minded with outstanding legal skills and a work ethic that is second to none” and she has “a deep understanding of both construction law and international arbitration”.
Khushboo regularly advises and represents clients in complex, multi-party and high value construction and infrastructure disputes in the region. She works with experts from a number of disciplines, such as delay, quantum, structural, engineering and processes MEP, piping and architectural. She has extensive experience in dealing with arbitration matters under both civil and common law. Khushboo also regularly works with barristers and King’s Counsels as well as local counsel on arbitration related litigation matters, before the courts in the UK, Singapore, Switzerland, UAE, Qatar, Lebanon, Kuwait, India and Malaysia, to name a few.
Khushboo speaks and publishes regularly in international arbitration and construction issues. She serves as Regional Lead for EMEA in the YSIAC Council, Associate Editor in Kluwer Arbitration Blog where she heads the MENA and India teams, Global Steering Committee member of the Equal Representation of Expert Witnesses (ERE), member of SIAC’s User Council, MENA sub-committee member in the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations, Building and Construction Law Committee member of the Law Society of Singapore, Executive Committee of the UAE chapter of ENERAP, Vice Chair of the Academic Council at REAL and the MENA representative for the Energy Disputes Arbitration Centre. She has also been appointed in the editorial board of a number of esteemed journals.
Khushboo also sits as arbitrator and has also been appointed as sole arbitrator, chair of the arbitral tribunal and as party-nominated arbitrator in a number of commercial and construction arbitration matters.
*Matters worked on prior to joining the firm.
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2016 – LL.M. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), Columbia Law School
2010 – LL.B. (Hons), King’s College London
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