Ammar Haykal

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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Ammar Haykal

Partner, Head of Office – Northern Emirates

Biography

Ammar advised his clients on their operations related to civil and commercial law especially those concerning minimizing bad debt risks and legal collection of bad debt in addition to providing consultations, advisory on corporate shareholders disputes and drafting agreements and contracts for 13 years in Jordan being an internal legal advisor to companies such as Fast Link the first cellular service provider in Jordan and through his own private practice office in Amman.

Ammar Joined Al Tamimi and company in late 2007 where he was engaged with providing legal services and consultations in various areas of law, drafting and following up various cases in the dispute resolution practice department that are related to property, banking, construction, commercial, civil, Islamic finance, ratification of arbitration awards and other areas of law.

He leads a team of litigation lawyers who provides litigation services for developers and Islamic Finance entities. He provided services in relation to Arbitration proceedings that are conducted in Arabic language which amounted to more than AED 1 billion.

Recent Experience

Supervising, advising and representing Amlak Finance in several claims surrounding civil, criminal, foreclosure, commercial, etc.
Supervising, advising and representing a leading Development Company in several claims against land developers in a man-made islands located in Ras Al Khaimah.
Representing a Tobacco Trading Company in relation to a civil and criminal case on debt recovery.
Representing a word-class Quarrying Company in a multimillion dirham outstanding recovery claim.
Representing a UAE Bank in relation to nullification of shares.
Representing a member of the Royal Family in Qatar in relation to outstanding recovery amounts.
Advising a leading Pharmaceutical Company in the Middle East on ad-hoc services and other legal services.
Advising a Governmental Entity on a gas sale and purchase agreement leading to debt recovery, attachment to assets and dealing with bounced security cheques.
Representing a Governmental Entity in a shareholder’s dispute.