Issam recently joined MAAF Legal as the Managing Partner. Previously held various executive roles as General Counsel, leading in house legal departments of key corporate and financial institutions. With twenty years of experience as corporate and banking legal counsel in the UAE, Issam is skilled with applying leadership capabilities, sound judgment, negotiation tools, drafting expertise and business insight to produce well-versed and seasonal bilingual legal counsel, reflecting an in-depth understanding of corporate objectives and clients’ needs.

Issam acted on major transactions, including key merger and acquisitions, project finance, corporate and debt restructuring, transfer of intellectual property and many other business and commercial deals. Issam is a licensed legal counsel, graduated from Beirut Arab University and holds an LLM in International Business Transactions from the Washington College of Law of the American University of Washington DC.