Stuart is a UK-qualified Solicitor, He has nearly 20 years’ experience gained in the Middle East, South East Asia and the United Kingdom, working in both private practice and in-house legal roles.

He has a broad range of TMT expertise gained from working with local and international telecommunications operators, regulators, consultants, start-ups and online ventures, advising on company formations, corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Stuart also advises on general IT, data protection and privacy, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and other areas relating to digital transformation, e.g. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine to Machine Learning (M2M), the Internet of Things (IoT) and Block Chain.

Stuart is heavily involved in various initiatives related to supporting start-up and scale-up TMT companies and SMEs in the region. He is a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and a core member of Al Tamimi’s Healthcare Sector group.