Our Team

At The Advocates, we take pride in our exceptional team of legal professionals who bring extensive expertise and a wealth of experience across a broad spectrum of legal disciplines. Our team is comprised of highly skilled attorneys, legal consultants, and support staff, all dedicated to providing the highest level of service and innovative solutions to our clients. With a deep understanding of both local and international legal landscapes, we serve a diverse clientele, including multinational corporations, SMEs, government entities, and individual clients.

Our team boasts a wide range of specializations, ensuring that we can offer comprehensive legal services across multiple practice areas. Each member of our team is not only highly qualified but also brings years of hands-on experience in advising clients on complex legal issues in Dubai, the UAE, and the broader GCC region. We ensure that our clients receive the benefit of our collective knowledge and insights, providing them with strategic, reliable, and tailored legal solutions.

Khaled Al Sheezawi

Partner - Senior Advocate

With an impressive legal career from 1993, Khaled Al Sheezawi is a highly esteemed legal practitioner known for his expertise in a wide range of legal disciplines, with a particular specialization in criminal law, personal status law, and procedural law. A graduate from the prestigious Beirut Arab University (BAU) in Alexandria, Al Sheezawi has built a reputation as a dedicated and tenacious advocate for his clients, combining extensive legal knowledge with a deep understanding of the justice system.

Osman Alhassan Aburuf

With an illustrious legal career spanning over 27 years across the Republic of Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, Osman Alhassan Aburuf is a distinguished legal practitioner, international arbitrator, and academic leader. Renowned for his deep expertise in construction law, international commercial arbitration, and dispute resolution, Aburuf has built a formidable reputation as a strategic legal mind and a tenacious advocate for his clients. His unique combination of litigation experience, arbitration practice, and legal translation expertise, coupled with his visionary leadership in higher education, positions him as one of the most versatile and respected legal professionals in the region.

Senior Partner

Dr. Gaafer Elfadil Mohamed

Senior Legal Consultant

With a distinguished academic and legal career spanning over three decades, Dr. Gaafer Elfadil Mohamed is a prominent academic, legal consultant, and leader in legal education. Renowned for his profound expertise in comparative and international law, Dr. Gaafer has dedicated his career to bridging the gap between profound academic scholarship and rigorous legal practice. His unique blend of university-level teaching, high-level consultancy, and visionary leadership in professional legal training establishes him as one of the most respected and influential legal minds in his field.

Mudar Shakra

A distinguished legal professional and academic with over 15 years of expertise, Senior Advocate Mudar combines an interdisciplinary approach to law, psychology, mental health, and migration studies. His career is rooted in addressing complex global challenges, with a focus on refugee rights, integration policies, family law, and humanitarian action.

Senior Advocate

Ahmed Rabie

Paralegal

Ahmed Rabie is a legal professional with over 13 years of specialized experience in procedural and criminal law, gained through his extensive service with the Bani Sweif Public Prosecution Office in Egypt. With a deep understanding of criminal procedures, judicial workflows, and case management processes, Ahmed brings precision, discipline, and procedural efficiency to every legal task he undertakes.

" For a person, when the law is applied, he exalts the animal and moves away from the law and justice, he degrades and becomes less than the animal "

Aristotle