Hannah Bible Esq., has worked as an advisor to the Asian-African legal Consultative Organization at the United Nations speaking in the General Assembly, scripting legal language for various UN resolutions, and acting as a general advisor within the 6th committee on various legal matters and the 3rd committee regarding economic/ financial issues. Additionally, she has acted as a legal adviser to The World Conservation Union, Pax Romana, and other Intergovernmental organizations within the UN system. She has chaired and continues to sit on several NGO committees relating to microfinance, financing for development, and other initiatives. After attending Fordham School of law and graduating from St. Thomas University School of Law with honors, Ms. Bible acted as an assistant teacher of tax and contracts. Ms. Bible graduated with an LLM in Taxation from New York University and has a BBA in Accounting and prior to law school worked to structure internal compliance mechanisms and headed the reporting of financials for several multi-million dollar non-for-profit projects. As a faculty member of the Walter H. & Dorothy B. International Tax & Financial Services Graduate Program of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law (San Diego), Ms. Bible teaches the law of international trusts & business organizations as well as United States income tax. Ms. Bible is currently a member of the tax section of the Florida Bar.
Abdelrohman Abdallah Alshafie joined the Dubai law firm of Al Shamsi & Co in June 1997 as a legal consultant and is specialised in dispute resolution, commercial law, employment and HR, common and international law and constitutional law. His practice focuses on civil and commercial litigation and arbitration including construction, real estate, privatisation and project work involving (amongst other things) the drafting of commercial transaction documents. His litigation experience covers joint venture disputes, commercial agencies, product liability and employment. He is a senior UAE law adviser managing the firm's legal team, which provides consultancy services to the Government of the UAE and also advises banks, companies and individuals particularly on dispute resolutions, litigation and arbitration.
He has been practising law in UAE since June 1997, and has arguably the most comprehensive knowledge of the commercial laws of the UAE (as they are applied and interpreted by UAE's Courts) existing among lawyers practising in UAE today.
Experience
Wide experience of commercial law matters.
Significant experience of assisting high net worth individuals in succession management/structuring of assets in accordance with Shariaa principles.
Has been senior litigation lawyer in Dubai for 17 years, and has personally handled over 1000 commercial cases, 50 arbitration cases, a great number of labour disputes, and a number of high profile criminal cases in addition to his overall supervision of all litigation works of the firm throughout 13 years.
Managed a sole practitioner firm in Sudan with a medium staff and led teams of lawyers and trained many junior lawyers through out 28 years of practising in the legal profession.
Education
1997 to date
Al Shamsi & Co - Legal Consultant
1986
Admitted to Sudanese Lawyers' Professional Association
Mr. Alex Otieno Omaya is a Law Graduate from the University of Nairobi. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma Certificate from the Kenya School of Law. He has been an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya for more than 12 years representing clients at various levels of the Kenyan Court system. He has been involved in resolving major industrial disputes that required negotiations at the highest level of the Ministry of Labour and was involved in preparations of contracts for various partners who wanted to farm or grow spirulina in the city of Kisumu in Kenya. His areas of expertise include conveyancing Commercial Law and Litigation. He was also involved in the formulation of contracts and transfer of IIMSAM Centre in Kisumu Kenya. He is a member of the Law Society of Kenya, The East African Law Association and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.
Mr. Nayef Salim SHAWABKAH has a Bachelor and a Masters Degree in Law from the University of Jordan and has been a long advocate and supporter of lawyers' rights and interests, being a member of the Jordanian Bar Association and The Arab Committee for the International Commercial Arbitration. He worked as a legal consultant for the Arab Union at the Real Estate Department and is the owner and founder of the Al-Shawabkah office for Advocacy and Legal Consultancy.
Mr. SHAWABKAH participated in many charity campaigns in Jordan and was the Head of the Charity committee for the Jordanian Bar Association, and he contributed to empower people living in rural areas, improving their medical care and medical support.
Dr. Raúl Benítez-Alías, IIMSAM Special-Adviser to the Director-General in Argentina, is a lawyer and expert on international affairs, business negotiations and an e-business consultant. For more than 20 years he has been trained and worked within the United Nations system on International Affairs on issues related to Justice and Development and International Education.
From 1997 to 2002 (based in Buenos Aires), Dr. Raúl Benítez-Alías has worked with the Great Lakes Council of Government (USA) representing companies from all member-states, in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.Currently, he is associated with ABC-ON, a company dealing with e-business solutions for local and foreign clients (www.aibicon.com).
