Samir Kantaria

Biography

Samir leads the firm’s Employment & Incentives practice which comprises the largest team of specialist employment lawyers in the Middle East.  He advises on the full range of employment law issues, contentious and non-contentious, and Samir’s experience includes regularly advising major blue chip, multinational and semi-governmental companies in relation to their day-to-day employment queries.  He combines technical expertise with business acumen and project management skills, and is known for giving pragmatic and commercial advice.

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Recent Experience

• Providing employment input in respect of a transactions within the pharma sector being the two largest asset swap transactions worldwide to date.
• Advising a leading global technology company in respect of the acquisition of a competitor and the resultant ongoing harmonization exercise.
• Managing all the Middle East employment law issues arising from the acquisition by a telecoms hardware company of a global competitor.
• Representing a multi-national chemical company in respect of unfair dismissal and discrimination claims brought in the UAE and the US;
• Acting as Middle East and Africa employment law coordinator for a US multinational medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturing company.