Dr. Karen Seif
Counsel
Head of the Arbitration Department
About Dr. Karen
Dr. Karen Seif leads the International Arbitration team at Habib Al Mulla and Partners. She advises on high-stakes disputes across a range of sectors and regularly represents clients in arbitrations under the rules of leading institutions such as DIAC, the ICC, LCIA, AAA-ICDR, UNCITRAL, and arbitrate-ad (formerly ADCCAC), She is a registered practitioner in the ADGM Courts and the DIFC Courts. She also sits as an arbitrator, and is admitted to the DIAC panel of arbitrators.
Education
License and Master’s (with Honors), Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2012).
LL.M., International Dispute Resolution and Economic Law (with Merit) (2015).
LL.M., University of California at Berkeley (2015).
Doctor of Juridical Science (JSD), University of California at Berkeley (2022).
Admissions
New York (2017).
Languages
English, French, Arabic
Top Matters
- Counsel for a major Indian bank in ADGM Court proceedings arising out of claims of circa USD 5 billion.
- Acting for a shareholder of a medical software company in complex multi-party, multi-jurisdictional DIFC Court proceedings relating to IP rights of the software and shareholder claims.
- Representing a UAE governmental entity in an arbitrate AD construction arbitration with claims in excess of AED 48 million.
- Represented a Kuwaiti pharmaceutical company in DIAC arbitration relating to a distribution agreement and obtained a precedent-setting UAE Courts judgment confirming the arbitral award.
- Acted for a Saudi company in a DIAC arbitration arising out of a consulting agreement in the KSA with claims in excess of SR 54 million.
- Represented a UAE entity in a USD 135 million arbitration in relation to service agreements in the military aviation sector.
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