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Samer Qudah
Partner, Head of Corporate
Biography
Samer joined Al Tamimi & Company in 1999 and has been a partner since 2007. Samer served as Managing Partner of the firm with overall responsibility for its 17 offices in 10 countries in the MENA region for 4 years from January 2020. Now as a Senior Corporate Partner and Head of Corporate, Samer maintains a corporate practice which consists of a diverse team of over 180 lawyers spread across the firm’s regional offices. He has extensive experience of over two decades in structuring and restructuring businesses for clients operating throughout the Gulf and the broader Middle East region, and has a wide-ranging experience advising major blue-chip organisations, financial institutions, government and semi-government concerns, SMEs, private equity funds, FMCG’s and TMT companies on a wide range of issues, including M&A, due diligence, joint ventures, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, agency law issues, regulatory and other corporate law-related issues.
On the legislative side, Samer has been involved in the enactment of several local and federal laws and had led the legislative developments of the laws of free zones and special economic zones across the GCC.
Samer is highly praised by clients and peers and trusted by the business community locally and internationally. His expertise is recognised globally and reflected in leading legal directories, including IFLR, Chambers & Partners, and The Legal 500. Samer was recognised by the Who’s Who Legal as a Thought Leader in the category of Firm Management and is listed in the prestigious Legal 500 EMEA “Hall of Fame” in the field of Commercial, Corporate and M&A.
Samer received multiple awards including M&A & Corporate Lawyer of the Year in 2022 and the Managing Partner of the Year in 2023 by the Legal Era Middle East, the Regional Managing Partner of the Year by the LAW Finest Legal Awards, the Managing Partner of the Year by Legal 500 MENA Awards 2024 and shortlisted for the Managing Partner of the Year award by IFLR in 2022 & 2023. He has also most recently been shortlisted as the UAE Lawyer of the Year by Legal 500 MENA Awards in 2025.
Samer has published extensively on corporate law related issues, and he is the author of numerous articles published in both regional and international publications. He presents regularly in conferences and seminars speaking on the legal formula for doing business in the UAE and the wider Middle East region. He is a member of many associations including the Jordanian Bar Association and the International Bar Association.
Language(s)
- Arabic
- English
Education
1997 – LLM, University of Aberdeen
1995 – LLB, University of Jordan
Admission
1998 – Jordanian Bar Association
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