Walid S.Chiniara is a third-generation lawyer whose voice has shaped the modern discipline of family business governance. In 2024, Family Capital ranked him the leading family business advisor in the Middle East and among the top five worldwide. With more than forty-five years of international experience across Tier-1 law firms, a CAC-40 multinational, and a Big-4 advisory firm, he has spent the last three decades advising some of the most influential enterprising families in the preservation and transmission of wealth. A personne de confiance to a select circle of elite entrepreneurs, he is an accredited mediator renowned for mission- impossible-succession-planning and for his proprietary 7-Step Methodology™, considered a sector benchmark. He is a lecturer and a published author, and his book Dynastic Planning consolidates more than thirty years of work with families across the world.

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