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Zainab Saad
Associate
Biography
Zainab Saad is an Association admitted to the bar since 2021 with the Disputes Resolution team in Baghdad.
Zainab has full rights of audience before Iraqi courts with extensive experience advising and representing clients in all types of litigations including Civil Litigation, Criminal Litigation, Labour Litigation, and Arbitral Awards enforcement proceedings. In addition to her expertise in Disputes resolution, Zainab’s excellent experience in managing commercial transaction in various sectors always led to outstanding outcome that assisted shaping the economy of the country.
Zainab often works with the Banking team on projects involving Iraqi law, or transaction occurring in Iraq and have successfully led many banks restructuring and acquisitions in this sector.
It is important to highlight Zainab extensive experience in all types of commercial advisory works and transaction, from complex advisory work to drafting commercial agreement, shareholders agreement, shares purchase agreements, settlement agreements, and assisting clients navigating multi-phase commercial transactions.
Zainab is a member of the firms’ family law team and the Compliance, Investigations & White-Collar Crime team.
Recent Experience
- Handle and represent an Iraqi entity in 22 labour lawsuits before labour courts.
- lead a complex, multi-phase transaction for a Kuwaiti client which included drafting settlement agreement, shares purchase agreement, revoking lawsuits, and oversee the shares transfer process.
- Acted as the legal consultant and led a complex matter of restructuring two major state-owned banks.
- Represented a Chinese client in multiple civil and criminal proceedings in a forgery of documents and stolen documents cases.
- Acted as an Iraqi law advisor and experts for an Arbitration proceedings for multiple clients on variety of issues.
- Assisted clients with enforcing arbitral awards before courts.
- Represent multiple clients in constructions disputes.
- Represented clients in complex inheritance division transition with a value over 10 Million USD.
- Handled many Due- Diligence reports related to banks acquisitions.
- Advice clients on disputes resolution procedures in Iraq, termination of contracts, damages claims, arbitral awards enforcement, constructions disputes, real estate transfer, set-up companies, labour law violations, family law matters, environmental laws in Iraq, and criminal law matters.
Language(s)
- Arabic
- English
Education
- 2020 – Bachelor in Law, University of Al- Iraqia
Admission
2021 – Iraqi Bar Association
Practice(s)
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