Shukri Osama
Dubai,UAE
Summary
Senior bilingual legal professional with 9 years of post-qualification experience delivering high-impact legal advisory across diversified holding groups and a leading regional banking institution. Trusted advisor on complex commercial, corporate, construction, technology, and banking matters within multi-sector environments spanning real estate, healthcare, education, engineering, contracting, hospitality, investment, manufacturing, logistics, insurance, energy, facilities management, and consumer businesses. Demonstrated expertise in structuring and negotiating sophisticated agreements, supporting cross-border transactions, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and dispute strategy while aligning legal frameworks with commercial objectives. Combines strong in-house corporate and banking exposure with a pragmatic, business-oriented legal approach that enables growth, mitigates risk, and protects enterprise value. Recognized for operating effectively in high-pressure, multi-jurisdictional settings, collaborating with senior stakeholders, external counsel, and international legal teams. A strategic thinker committed to continuous development, relationship building, and delivering solutions that drive operational excellence and long-term business success.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Legal Counsel
SEE Holding + Olive Green Holding
Dubai
2023.04 - 2026.06
- Provide end-to-end legal advisory services to two affiliated holding groups: Olive Green Holding (family-owned diversified investment group) and SEE Holding, a sustainability-driven global holding spearheading net-zero infrastructure and city development.
- Support businesses operating across hospitality, technology, real estate, education, and consumer brands — including the beauty and fragrance brand 29Plus — ensuring legal protection, compliance, and operational governance.
Legal Advisor
Mohammad Omar Bin Haider (MOBH) Holding Group
Dubai
2021.03 - 2023.04
- Deliver strategic and operational legal advisory services to a leading UAE diversified conglomerate supporting businesses across real estate, healthcare, education, engineering, contracting, investment, logistics, energy, manufacturing, and commercial sectors.
- Advise senior management and business units on corporate, commercial, and regulatory matters, ensuring legally sound decision-making and risk mitigation.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad spectrum of agreements including NDAs, joint venture agreements, SPAs, investment contracts, facility management agreements, tenancy contracts, consultancy arrangements, SaaS and technology agreements, DPAs, procurement contracts, and FIDIC-based construction agreements.
- Prepare legal opinions, memoranda, and advisory briefs addressing commercial, governance, and dispute-related issues.
- Maintain corporate governance standards, regulatory compliance frameworks, and legal documentation across multiple group entities.
- Coordinate litigation and dispute management with external law firms and internal stakeholders.
- (Legal Department licensed as Nujood Bin Haider Advocates & Legal Consultants)
- Secondment — Dubai Islamic Bank (Banking Legal Exposure) (January 2025 – March 2025 — secondment requested by MOBH Group)
- Provided legal support on banking and financial advisory matters, including review and structuring of banking documentation, financing arrangements, and commercial banking contracts.
- Assisted in evaluating contractual risk in banking transactions, regulatory compliance matters, and financial documentation.
- Supported internal stakeholders in interpreting banking-related legal frameworks and contractual obligations.
- Exposure to Islamic banking practices, commercial financing structures, and institutional documentation processes.
- Secondment — DIA Holding (Joint Venture Assignment) (August 2024 – December 2024 — temporary JV secondment)
- Assigned to support DIA Holding under a joint venture arrangement with MOBH Group, providing legal drafting and advisory services.
Lawyer
Thoraya Jamous Law Firm
Palestine
2019.09 - 2021.03
- Provided civil and commercial legal advice and litigation, employment claims, criminal proceedings and defense, property law practice, and banking and insurance laws and transactions.
Lawyer
Arab Bank
Palestine
2017.10 - 2019.08
- Worked within the Legal Department of Arab Bank plc, providing legal advisory and operational support on banking, financial, and regulatory matters in close coordination with internal business units.
- Drafted, reviewed, and advised on specialized banking and financial agreements, including loan and financing agreements, credit facility documentation, guarantees, collateral and security agreements, mortgage and pledge contracts, restructuring and settlement agreements, recovery arrangements, letters of indemnity, trade finance documentation, and client banking agreements.
- Managed and followed up on banking litigation, financial claims, debt recovery, and enforcement matters, ensuring compliance with procedural and regulatory requirements.
- Represented and coordinated legal actions on behalf of the bank with external counsel, courts, and enforcement authorities in relation to banking disputes and financial obligations.
- Provided legal analysis on contractual exposure, credit risk implications, regulatory compliance, and customer obligations arising from banking transactions.
- Collaborated with Arab Bank’s regional and international legal teams on cross-border banking matters and unified legal strategies.
- Participated in joint coordination efforts on selected banking disputes and recovery matters involving Arab Bank’s Dubai branch during the period of engagement.
- Maintained structured legal documentation, case files, and governance standards aligned with banking compliance and internal legal policies.
Education
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Arab American University
2013.01 - 2017.01
Skills
- Legal Drafting & Contract Negotiation
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Legal Research & Advisory
- Bilingual Legal Communication
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Flexibility
- Leadership
- Attention to detail
- Problem-solving
Certification
Palestinian Bar Association
LANGUAGES
Arabic
English
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
Swimming, Reading, Writing
Timeline
Legal Counsel
SEE Holding + Olive Green Holding
2023.04 - 2026.06
Legal Advisor
Mohammad Omar Bin Haider (MOBH) Holding Group
2021.03 - 2023.04
Lawyer
Thoraya Jamous Law Firm
2019.09 - 2021.03
Lawyer
Arab Bank
2017.10 - 2019.08
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Arab American University
2013.01 - 2017.01