Kennedys Dubai LLP
Membership Category
Corporate Membership Up to Three
Membership No.
0288
Commission
Arbitration and ADR
Company Profile
Kennedys
Global presence, local expertise
Kennedys is a global law firm specialising in dispute resolution and advisory services.
Established in 1899, Kennedys now has over 3,000 employees spread across 78 offices, associations and co-operations around the world, providing extensive coverage across the Middle East and beyond. We have been established in the Gulf region since 2006, with offices in the UAE and Oman.
We offer the resources of a global firm coupled with a local understanding of legal issues, local markets and industry-specific challenges. Our clients trust us with some of their most complex and high-profile matters across our network of international offices.
At Kennedys, we are here to make a difference for our clients and each other every day. We empower our people to reach their full potential. We do this by putting our values centre stage. They define the way we behave and interact with one another, and they run through every strand of the firm. This is achieved by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious.
Kennedys in the region
Kennedys has been established in the Middle East since 2006, with offices in Dubai and Oman. Our offices operating on the ground are made up of lawyers with strong expertise in relevant local laws and extensive practical experience of local market conditions.
A long-established presence
Our teams in the UAE and Oman are highly regarded centres for the provision of strategic and commercial legal advice to organisations and individuals in the GCC, Africa and beyond.
Our lawyers are qualified in several jurisdictions, including Australia, England & Wales, Hong Kong, India, Lebanon, New Zealand, Oman and South Africa. We have well-developed relationships with carefully chosen, locally licensed lawyers and consultancies across the GCC and wider Middle East region.
We are renowned for our expertise in commercial dispute resolution and advisory services, and our clients across the globe rely on us to help them with their most critical issues, often involving us to provide strategic guidance well before a dispute arises.
Where specialist expertise is required, we are also able to draw upon the experience and resources of our wider network of offices across the region and global network.
Represented by:
Jamie Kellick
Jamie Kellick
Jamie is a partner based in Kennedys’ Muscat office who is a construction and commercial dispute resolution specialist.
Experienced in both contentious construction and commercial issues, as well as regularly instructed in relation to non-contentious construction matters, Jamie’s practice encompasses the GCC market and wider region. His construction clients are international engineering and construction contractors, international joint venture project companies and local developers and entities. His commercial clients are both GCC based and international.
With extensive alternative dispute resolution (ADR) experience, Jamie has represented clients in arbitrations, mediations, expert determinations and adjudications.
Jamie is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been appointed as an arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations in Oman, the UAE and England. He is also an accredited mediator. He is a board member of the Oman Commercial Arbitration Centre and transitional secretary to the CIArb Oman Branch (currently under formation).
Michael Smale
Michael Smale
Mike is a Legal Director in Kennedys’ Dubai office specialising in construction disputes.
Much of Mike’s work involves technical, high value, multi-party disputes which arises from the use of bespoke and standard format construction contracts. He is experienced in civil procedure, adjudication, arbitration and mediation as well as non-contentious matters including contract review and drafting.
He is recognised as a ‘key lawyer’ in leading legal directories and has a wealth of experience working with developers, contractors, sub-contractors, architects, engineers, surveyors and building inspectors.
Mike is pragmatic in his approach and looks for innovative, practical and cost-effective solutions.
Mike qualified at a London based insurance firm in November 2014 and relocated to the UAE in 2022.
Michael Dunmore
Michael Dunmore
Michael is a legal Director in Kennedys’ Dubai office and has been a resident in the Middle East for over a decade.
He has been involved in numerous disputes throughout the region and has acted as counsel in well over 80 arbitrations and has a broad range of experience with arbitrations, with a particular focus on construction arbitrations.
Michael is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has acted in arbitrations under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), DIFC-LCIA, QICCA, Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation Arbitration Centre (ADCCAC), the Oman Arbitration Centre and in ad hoc arbitrations.