Omar Hegazy has extensive experience advising on commercial advisory instructions and regulatory matters across the Middle East.
Before joining the firm, Omar was a director with the legal team of the world’s largest publisher and educational technology company where he managed a team providing legal support to the Middle East and Africa operations and advised leadership stakeholders on regulatory matters, commercial transactions, risk management, litigation files, employment matters and anti-bribery and corruption compliance.
Prior to that, Omar was a senior legal counsel with the world’s largest privately owned school operator (with headquarters in Dubai) where he provided legal support on a wide spectrum of commercial, operational and transactional work globally. Before moving in-house in 2012, Omar practiced in the corporate and commercial group of the largest law firm in the Middle East.