“Meet Melissa Forbes-Miranda, a top corporate and commercial partner in Dubai with over 15 years of experience. Recognized for her expertise in mergers and acquisitions, technology law, and cross-border transactions, she delivers strategic, value-driven legal advice across multiple sectors.”
Melissa Forbes-Miranda is a respected corporate and commercial partner at Stephenson Harwood LLP who has brilliantly and reliably cemented her niche as a favored advisor in the Middle East’s legal world. Granted the ideal of Dubai for the past 15 years, she has lent a veritably reliable hand to always provide value in giving commercially relevant, on-point, and strategic legal advice that meets the needs of her clients.
Her experience also extends to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, foreign direct investment, restructuring and insolvency, shareholder disputes, private equity, and venture capital. Her competency in dealing with all the nitty-gritty of local and cross-border operations has established her as a touchstone among many multinational and regional clients requiring legal advice in the whole of Middle East.
Melissa enjoys a solid reputation pertaining to the best corporate attorney, as indicated by extensive awards. Recently, her rankings included being a “Next Generation Partner” for Commercial, Corporate, and M and A—Legal 500 EMEA 2024 Guide. In addition, The Legal 500 identified her among the best M and A practitioners in the region in its M&A Powerlist Series: Middle East Region 2024. She was also named in the 2023 ALB “MENA Super 50” list by Thomson Reuters and went on to win an “Honourable Mention” in the Corporate Lawyer of the Year category at the LexisNexis Women in Law Awards 2024.
Melissa has also advised extensively on commercial, outsourcing, and technology-related issues well beyond the purview of traditional corporate and commercial instructions. In recent years, her practice in the wide technology space has arguably been particularly enhanced by work related to issues around data centres, cybersecurity, defence technology, health care technology, fintech, e-commerce, and blockchain/cryptocurrency, among others.
Her diverse client base also includes leading names in the financial services, insurance, life sciences, healthcare, industrials and manufacturing, consumer goods, real estate and construction, professional services, and the hotels and leisure sector. Her ability to provide strategic, industry-specific legal solutions has certainly made sure that I am much sought after as an adviser in the Middle East, helping clients navigate their way through the sometimes complex landscape of the law with a clear strategy in mind.
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