Samir heads up the firm’s employment department, which is the largest team of specialist employment lawyers in the Middle East. His practice covers the full range of employment law issues, contentious and non-contentious. His experience includes regularly advising major blue chip, multinational and semi-governmental companies in relation to their day to day employment queries. He combines technical expertise with business acumen and project management skills, and is known for giving pragmatic and commercial advice.

Samir is acknowledged as a Band 1 ranked lawyer by Chamber &amp; Partners 2017, is listed in Who’s Who Legal, Management Labour &amp; Employment 2017 and won the international Client Choice 2015 award for Labour &amp; Employment client services.

He is described in Chambers Global 2017 as “just fantastic: he knows his stuff, he's very personable and equally a great sounding board.”

Samir joined the firm in 2003 and has been a partner since 2007.