Christine is a Lebanese qualified lawyer and a solicitor of England & Wales with 16 years of PQE. She has been practicing in the UAE since 2016, previously working with Al Tamimi & Company and Dentons, Dubai. She is an IMI and CEDR Accredited Mediator, a Weinstein JAMS Fellow.

Her passion for mediation led her to establish the Mediation Hub MENA, where she serves as the Founder Member and Executive Director.

Christine is included on the roster of mediators of the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO). She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is listed as a mediator on the panel of the ADGM Court-Annexed Mediation Scheme, and Mediation Chambers.  

Christine specializes in resolving complex family business and shareholders disputes as both party representative and mediator, through mediation, conciliation and settlement counselling. She provides advisory on UAE law, pre litigation guidance, and governance related dispute prevention. Christine has also practiced as a corporate lawyer with focus on M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, as well as corporate governance and compliance issues in the Middle East, particularly in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, including transactions involving family enterprises where ownership structures and succession considerations often intersect with strategic legal decision making.

She is a trainer in mediation, negotiation, and mediation advocacy for several reputable training and academic institutes.

Christine's mediation and negotiation accreditations include:

- Diploma in Professional Mediation from the Professional Mediation Center (CPM) of Saint-Joseph University, Beirut Lebanon in 2010;

- CEDR International Accreditation Programme;

- ADR Center International Mediator Training Program in Dubai in partnership with the Legal Affairs Department;

-  “Mediating the Litigated Case” at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in Malibu;

- The International Training Program for promoting mediation, a joint initiative by the Centre for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at UC Law, San Francisco and JAMS;

- Several negotiation courses, which is a key skill in the mediation process, including the Negotiation and Leadership Course at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School in Boston.

She is a member of the Family Firm Institute, and serves on the Appraisal and Regulatory Reforms and Implementing Policies Committees of the International Mediation Institute (IMI).

Christine authored several articles and publications on mediation including:

• UAE's Integrated Legislative Framework for Mediation and Conciliation, published by Lexis Nexis
• Strategies for a mediator to successfully navigate particular situations, published by Lexis Nexis
• The Mediation Guide to MENA, published by Al Tamimi & Company

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