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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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Waleed Shalabi
Senior Associate
Biography
Waleed Shalabi is a Senior Associate in the regional Financial Crime practice in Dubai.
As a former member of the Egyptian judiciary and a Chief Public Prosecutor, Waleed Shalabi has extensive experience in criminal and civil litigation.
Waleed’s career path in the UAE has involved his employment as Legal Counsel at other law firms, finally followed by his appointment in the position of a Senior Associate with the Litigation and Financial Crime Departments of Al Tamimi & Company. Using his extensive knowledge of the UAE laws and regulations, Waleed provides excellent and efficient assistance to both corporate and individual clients.
Recent Experience
- Assisting in an investigation on behalf of a major international bank in relation to embezzlement in excess of eight million US dollars;
- Successfully defending a client fighting an extradition request received by the UAE authorities from a European country;
- Mapping a strategy in light of the evidence gathered to institute a complaint on behalf of a major industrial client against one of its directors for misappropriation of millions in breach of trust;
- Undertook the defence of a medical entity whose employees were accused of medical malpractice in a lawsuit brought against the entity which was facing the serious threat of closure, and successfully managed to defend the case and ensured that the entity continued to practice;
- Drafting an MOU between major forensic labs of Abu Dhabi government and the United Nations for developing their criminal labs to conform to international standards
Language(s)
- Arabic
- English
Education
2000 – Bachelor in Laws and Police Sciences, Egyptian Police Academy
Admission
2011 – Egyptian Bar Association as an Appeal Lawyer
Practice(s)
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