Senior Associate - Real Estate

Baker McKenzie’s UAE Real Estate team is a market leading, full service practice forming a core part of the firm’s Middle East transaction platform. The UAE Real Estate team is consistently recognised as one of the leading practices in the market, being named UAE Real Estate Team of the Year at the Chambers Middle East Awards 2026 and Real Estate Team of the Year at the LexisNexis Middle East Awards 2025, alongside multiple firmwide awards for client service and regional leadership. These accolades reflect the team’s track record on high profile transactions and its reputation for excellence in the UAE real estate and hospitality sector.

The Gulf Real Estate team operates seamlessly across key markets, with partners and associates on the ground in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, combining deep local expertise with a truly international outlook to support clients on complex, cross-border transactions.

Our “one team” approach ensures that matters are resourced efficiently across jurisdictions, leveraging regional collaboration and global connectivity to deliver commercially focused, practical advice across the full real estate lifecycle.

The team advises a broad client base including sovereign wealth funds, institutional international and regional investors, developers, hotel operators and financial institutions, supporting them across the full real estate lifecycle.

The team’s experience spans acquisitions and disposals, large scale developments, joint ventures, hospitality and branded residences, real estate finance and regulatory advisory.

The practice is recognised for delivering commercially focused, practical advice on high value and complex mandates, including landmark transactions such as major hospitality portfolio acquisitions and flagship mixed use developments across the region.

Baker McKenzie is a truly global law firm.

Founded in 1949, we advise many of the world’s most dynamic and successful business organisations through our 13,200 people in 74 offices in 45 countries.

Yet big does not mean impersonal.

We work hard to ensure that everyone knows their role and has the support they need to perform it to the highest standard.

Our culture encourages this - how we work, think and behave in a collaborative and fulfilling way.

In the Gulf region Baker McKenzie has been active for more than three decades and our practice now boasts over 100 lawyers based in our seven offices in the Middle East – Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, and Riyadh.

As a pioneering firm, we were most notably the first to enter both the Saudi and Egyptian markets.

The firm has built established and substantial presence in the Middle East & Africa region, with all offices working in close collaboration to service clients’ needs on a range of matters, including banking and finance, project finance, Islamic finance, corporate/M&A and dispute resolution.

We work closely with key local players — including governmental and regulatory entities, financial institutions, family-owned conglomerates and corporates across all industry sectors — as well with global investors and corporations establishing and consolidating their presence in the region.

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