Samir Safar-Aly

Samir is an English qualified Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and a registered Legal Adviser with the Dubai Government Legal Affairs Department. He is a counsel in the Firm’s Financial Regulatory and Investigations, Compliance & Ethics (IC&E) practices based in Dubai as well as FinTech and AI lead in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with ten years’ experience in the region.

Samir's experience includes UAE, Saudi and wider international anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) rules, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidance, anti-bribery and corruption laws (covering the GCC, UK and U.S.) and other areas of white-collar and financial crime. Samir has particular experience in financial and economic sanctions and regularly provides guidance on UN, U.S. (OFAC), UK (OFSI), EU and GCC sanctions regimes and export-control issues across a wide range of sectors. He has spoken at a number of public engagements on sanctions-related compliance issues and has provided sanctions training to clients in Dubai, London and Tokyo. He has received financial crime training from the City of London Police and the U.S. Department of Justice.