Ashraf Ahmed

Ashraf Ahmad Metwali is a Senior legal consultant at Kashwani Law Firm, and qualified lawyer with over 26 years of experience in commercial, civil, and arbitration law, as well as financial and banking cases, liquidation and bankruptcy of companies, corporate restructuring, and managing and implementing organizational changes. He has also provided legal advice to companies regarding disputes, dues, and settlement agreements. Prior to joining Kashwani Law Firm in 2010, Ashraf spent 12 years operating his own legal office in Egypt and working with several specialized and renowned legal firms. He handled a wide array of legal and regulatory matters, diverse criminal and civil cases, provided counsel on contract documentation, and managed arbitration proceedings. Regarding his experience: – Actively engaged in providing legal services and consultations in various areas of law, including drafting and following up on cases related to banking, criminal, commercial, civil, and Islamic finance in the litigation department. – Provided counsel to prominent individuals, conglomerate corporations, and a notable entity in the UAE on resolving disputes with financial institutions and navigating matters pertaining to loans. – Advised and assisted in drafting several financial regulations for companies. – Reviewed and advised on the lease finance law, banking matters, and other new financial regulations. – Ensured that companies comply with the provisions of the law in their dealings and contracts through reviewing and advising on implementing regulations and registry user rules. – Restructured companies and subsidiaries and drafted related agreements. – Consistently achieved favorable results for clients, including verdicts in which settlements exceeded AED 35 billion. – Advised clients on a broad range of issues, including setting up transactions, legal due diligence, joint ventures, drafting and negotiating various types of commercial agreements, and establishing various corporate vehicles in the UAE. – Provided legal counsel to clients on matters pertaining to civil law, including compensation issues, contract execution, breaches, and various other civil matters. – Managed cases for numerous conglomerate companies in the UAE concerning bankruptcy proceedings initiated by debtors, involving billions of dirhams. – Planned, negotiated, drafted, and implemented asset purchases and sales of businesses and commercial groups. – Settled major cases exceeding AED 35 billion related to execution proceedings in favor of our client. Initiated substantive dispute cases to halt all execution actions due to the invalidity and nullity of the legal procedures in the original case where the ruling was issued. – Defended against financial claims exceeding billions of dirhams, representing prominent UAE businessmen in litigation.