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Sherif Hikal
OGH Legal · United Arab Emirates
OGH Legal
Litigation · United Arab Emirates
Sherif is a litigation specialist, with circa 25 years’ experience in the UAE and the wider Middle East, across sectors including general commercial, company dispute, insolvency, construction, real estate, shipping, banking and white-collar crimes.
Sherif is best known for his expertise in the UAE Court system having litigated more than 1,000 court cases in his career. He has extensive experience in advising clients, including corporate and private clients on UAE law, and conducting proceedings before the local courts across the seven Emirates.
Sherif has specialist knowledge in the areas of company disputes, banking, Islamic finance disputes and insolvency and liquidation regimes. He was part of an adhoc litigation practitioners’ committee who reviewed the related draft local laws in regard to bankruptcy, which puts his clients at a considerable advantage in understanding the laws and their application given them recently coming into force.
Sherif has also secured major wins in the field of commercial agency disputes, having assisted four international corporations in the termination of their local agency agreements in the UAE, over the last 12 months.
He handles a number of cases which are the highest in value currently being heard at the UAE local courts. Almost all of his current mandates are in excess of USD50 million and he leads the team on a book of work for disputes totalling more than USD10 billion, since he co-founded OGH Legal in 2016.
Sherif is seen as a senior litigator and heavyweight amongst his peers. On the collegiate level, he is a mentor to younger generation lawyers, and was seen as such in the firms he worked at in the past too – firms which are now the largest local firms in the UAE.
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