Essam has assisted federal and local governments in drafting laws and regulations relating to the Telecommunications Law Authority, Dubai Internet and Media City, assisted in the Abu Dhabi privatization of water and electricity and played a major role in drafting the privatization and ADWEA laws and regulations, assisted the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry in drafting the Federal Industrial law and implementing regulations, assisted Dubai International Financial Centre Authority in drafting number of laws and regulations relating to the Authority, the Court and the Arbitration Centre and have been actively involved in commenting and reviewing most of the federal laws including the Arbitration law, Commercial Companies law and the Consumer Protection law. He has extensive experience in regulatory matters and has assisting local and federal governments on regulatory issues.
Essam’s principal place of practice is Dubai, United Arab Emirates but he also has extensive experience in advising and assisting client throughout the Arab region and in particular the GCC states where he has worked and advised and attended to projects in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq as well as sat as an arbitrator and appeared as co-counsel in a number of matters in the GCC counties. Mr. Al Tamimi has extensive experience in civil, commercial and banking laws in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq and has worked closely with Al Tamimi’s overseas offices in a number of matters.
Essam has acted as counsel and sat as arbitrator at a number of disputes regionally and internationally. He is currently on the ICC Court, Chairman of the ICC UAE Commission on Arbitration, ex- Chairman and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, ex-member of the LCIA Court, ex-President of the LCIA Arab Users’ Council. He is actively involved in development of arbitration laws in the region and for the training and development of arbitration in the UAE and the region. His practice focuses primarily on local and international clients in shipping, banking, intellectual property, construction and commercial litigation. Essam has published a number of articles and books on litigation and arbitration in the UAE and setting up business in the region. He has received Gulf Legal Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the Gulf Legal Market. He is on the editorial advisory board of the ICLR. He is a member of the IBA Rule of Law Action Group Advisory Council.
