Ibrahim Hanifeh

Senior Associate

• Recruited as a Head of Legal and Development department.
• Operating a department including /11/ staffs.
• Majorily hired & recruited to handle the lagal litigation cases related to a /12/ complex and high valued Real Estate Cases which valued Approx. amount of AED 500Mn including lands and towers in Dubai. Real Estate Cases were related to a properties owned by the group and some belongs personally to the group chariman.

• Drafting and reviweing lawsuit's memorandums in which to be submitted before the Dubai court at all stages from 1st instance's till the Cassation court, drafting legal notices, clearance and acknowledgment statements. Main cases where related to SPA applicability, nullifications of sale and purchase transactions, registered and non registered properties and terminating the SPA either related to off-plan, completed or canceled projects along with escrow account regulations.
• Oversaw and drafting Real Estate properties SPA, mortgages and terms of tenancy agreementns as well.
• Successfully achived a percentage of 80% in totality of all entrusted cases assigned to me.
• Obtained and achieved certain great judgments related to Real Estate cases matters issued by the appeal and cassation courts.
• Recovered approx. amount of AED 60 Mn to the company within a record time not exceeded /6/ months.
• Attending experts meetings as drafting all concerned memorandums. And attending in Land Department on day to day required basis. Having a role of settling the Real Estate cases amicably.
• Specialized in analyzing all Dubai Land Department's rules and regulations.
• Managed and operated all group's Real Estate properties.
• Operating and handling all tenancy relations with the tenants of the group's rented Real Estate properties.
• Initiating all applicable pro-active legal actions and procedures to safeguard group's interest.
• Oversaw contract preparation and negotiation, title clearance and closing document fabrication while managing escrow funds and deal tracking spreadsheets.
• Monitoring and reviwing all the group's financial & banking legal documents.
• Handling all group's staffs labour issues either related to its legal part or administrative one.
• Creating and reviewing pre and post closing statements and facilitated Sponsor sale closings.
• Negotiated and drafted units leases, subleases, purchase agreements, and amendments.
• Accompanied the property manager to Housing Court for eviction proceedings against tenants.
• Performed title searches on parcels of property.
• Typed legal documents, created redlines of legal documents and all other correspondence.
• Created templates for legal documents and mail merges using Microsoft Word.
• Created of database for structure of ownership for different entities.
• Organized and maintained files.
• Responsible for drafting and reviewing documents, contracts, lease agreements, license agreements, loan documents, and purchase agreements.
• Responsible for corporate formations, compliance, governance and operations as well as general corporate transactions and strategies including the development of organizational structure and procurement of services and materials.

• Hired and recruited as a Legal Consultant.
• Gradually promoted from legal assistant to assistant of the head of legal operations then to head of legal consultansy department and main supervisor for lawsuit memorandums.
• Operating court hearing attendance staffs.
• Mainly specialized in Real Estate, Banking, Rental, Contracting, banking and Commercial litigation.
• Handled many major banks legal day to day operations
• Handedled many Real Estate Developments day to day legal operations along with handling their under-litigation legal cases.
• My entrusted clients were Tilal Properties, Haydra Properties, Omnyat Properties and Nakheel.
• Handled many cases against and in favour of many developers in UAE and I achieved great and effective legal & financial rewards.
• Drafting and reviweing lawsuit's memorandums in which to be submitted before of all court stages including the committee of recancelation and the rental dispute department at Dubai Manucipality. Memorandums manily were concerned to Real Estate Cases, banking, mortgage procedures and contracting cases.
• Specialized in terminating and nullifying non registered SPA and settling cases related to canceled Real Estate projects.
• Oversaw and drafting Real Estate properties SPA and terms of tenancy agreementns.
• Drafting all kind of bilingual mortgage and escrow agreements and applying the same by initiating the required legal actions upon the default. Registering and imposing all in-kind rights on properties and preparing the require documents.
• Drafting all kind of banking financial facilties agreements and expericned in all kind of fainancial term loans and housing loans.
• Attending experts meetings as drafting all concerned memorandums.
• Having a role of settling the Real Estate & banking cases amicably.
• Handeled legal operations for many of heading contracting companies in UAE like DOKA UAE, AL FARAA and AL MARWAN Contracting Co. and achived many success judgments favouring the assigned clients and a recovery amount of AED 100 Mn I have scored favouring the assigned clients.
• Entrusted to handle many of companies' labour issues and my major assigned clients were Landmark Group & NMC Hospital.
• Handeled the legal operations of Al Buhairah Insurance Co., Al Wathba Insurance Company and Al Saqer Insurance Co.
• Oversaw contract preparation and negotiation, title clearance and closing document.
• Rendered opinions on whether borrowers have met legal requirements to satisfy loan closing requirements.
• Drafted legal checklists & reviewed of loan closing documents and requirements necessary for potential borrowers and all this favouring my entrusted banks legal operations.
• Responsible for review of requested loan documentation once received by banks and communicating directly with the borrower about pending loan and disbursements.
• Vetting and checking all documents before the disbursments and preparing all concerned due diligence reports.
• Negotiating and closing real estate transactions annually for all owned properties by my entrusted assigned developers clients.
• Litigation of real property title issues, commercial contract disputes, and other general civil litigation cases from inception to resolution.
• Representing various purchasers and sellers in property transactions.
• Reviwing and analyzing all cases files and preparing a comprehensive legal expectations.
• Supervising the progress of the case files at the litigation department as well as the work of the legal associates at court, and coordinated between them and the clients.
• Updating the clients with the progress and development of their cases and answered their queries and provided a sufficient assistance including legal researches and communicated with governmental authorities.
• Coordinating and assisting the corporate department and arranged the necessary documents to be presented to the court, handling the case files until it is closed.

• Working within all departments at the firm, with the main focus being Company and Commercial work.
• Dealing with the establishment and registration of companies including follow up corporate advisory work and assisting with company re-structures.
• Drafting, negotiating and reviewing contracts and supporting legal documentation relating to real estate transactions as well as company and commercial matters including supply agreements, shareholder agreements, leases, sale and purchase agreements, loan documentation, settlement agreements and consultancy and service agreements,
• Responsible for advising and providing general legal support to two major industrial companies in Syria.
• Experience working closely with the other lawyers on a number of criminal cases relating to fraud, theft and other financial crimes including as forged cheques.

This firm specialized in dealing with civil litigation cases for a variety of different matters as well as marital and family law issues.

Experience gained at this firm involved working within a team of six lawyers. The firm specialised in claims legitimacy and the role focused on working in the Civil Law department and specifically real estate cases. Main responsibilities included responding to liabilities and pleading before the Courts of First Instance, interviewing clients to understand their requirements and providing advice and support.

The role was as an assistant lawyer responsible for preparation of claims and legal documentation to be included in the submissions made to the Courts. Additional experience involved reviewing and reporting on laws and regulations, interviewing and advising clients, and preparing statements for the cases..