Fatima Alhasan

Fatima Alhasan

Partner
Baker & McKenzie Limited
Licensed to practice in Bahrain

Biography

Fatima is a partner in the Banking & Finance Practice Group of Baker McKenzie (focusing on Saudi Arabia and Bahrain) and a member of Baker McKenzie's Global R&I Steering Committee.

She is also a member of the Firm’s global Alternative Capital team that provides best-in-class investment solutions for family offices, founders, sovereign wealth, and other sources of private capital.

She is experienced in a broad range of conventional and Islamic banking and finance matters, focusing on financial restructuring and insolvency, project finance, corporate finance and trade finance.

Fatima also has experience in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including international trade and commerce, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture partnerships and investment funds.

Fatima is recognised as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Legal 500 and IFLR.

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Bahrain Bar Society - Member
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) - Member

Admissions

  • Bahrain (2008)

Education

  • University of Warwick, UK (LL.B.)
  • Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M.)

Languages

  • Arabic
  • English
  • Bahrain law and Saudi law contributions to the World Bank's Doing Business Reports (2008, 2009 and 2015)
  • Q. Zu'bi and F. Alhasan, "Maximising Efficiency", The Report: Bahrain 2008, Oxford Business Group, 2008