Ahmed Yehia HamdallaLaw journalالعربية

Professional profile

Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla

Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla is a lawyer and a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team at SAT & Co. Advocates and Legal Consultants in Dubai. His practice encompasses commercial and civil litigation, arbitration, and cross-border enforcement.

Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla seated on a light-coloured sofa, leaning forward with a smile.

From Assiut to Dubai

Ahmed graduated from the Faculty of Law at Assiut University and is admitted to practise before the courts of appeal in Egypt as a member of the Egyptian Bar Association. In Dubai he is a legal consultant registered with the Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department. He works in Arabic and English. He worked at Galadari before joining SAT & Co. in 2023 and became a Partner in its Dispute Resolution team in June 2025.

Commercial and financial disputes

His practice spans commercial contracts, shareholder disputes, directors’ authority, banking, insurance and real estate. He also advises on disputes in the gold and commodities trade. In an interview with In-House Community, he discussed the importance of documentation in these transactions and what in-house legal teams expect of external counsel handling a dispute. His clients in these sectors include banks, insurers, developers and trading businesses.

Litigation and cross-border enforcement

His disputes practice spans more than a decade. He works on court-appointed expert proceedings, appeals and cassation matters, including disputes before the UAE courts and the DIFC Courts. His work also covers recognition of foreign judgments, enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards, and cross-border asset recovery, including matters involving insolvency and restructuring.

Questions behind the writing

His writing follows legal questions from the transaction to the dispute. What steps can a creditor take when an arbitral award is issued abroad but the debtor’s assets are in the UAE? When can the breakdown of negotiations lead to a claim? How far does a director’s signature bind a company? The journal brings together his published work on these and related questions.

Teaching and professional activities

In 2024 he served as a moot arbitrator at Assiut University’s student arbitration competition. At the In-House Community Congress in Dubai in November 2025, he presented a session on resolving insurance disputes, covering the claims process, review of decisions and the role of policy wording.

Portrait gallery
Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla seated on the edge of a sofa with his hands clasped in front of him.
Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla leans forward with his fingertips touching, looking at the camera.
Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla standing beside a window, looking to the side.
Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla standing by a window, smiling with one hand in his pocket.
Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla sitting at an angle with his hands resting together on his knee.
Professional photographs
Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla’s professional LinkedIn portrait.
LinkedIn profile photograph Source
Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla at Assiut University’s recognition ceremony for the mock arbitration competition.
Judging the Assiut University moot arbitration competition, May 2024. Source
Ahmed Yehia Hamdalla at a meeting with the team of THE LAW magazine in Dubai.
Meeting with THE LAW magazine, March 2023. Source
Personal photograph posted with the author’s announcement of Egyptian appellate bar admission.
From the author’s Egyptian appellate bar admission announcement, 2023. Source
An informal professional meeting on investment and business growth in Egypt.
A conversation about business and investment in Egypt, 2023. Source
A second photograph from the author’s meeting with THE LAW magazine.
With THE LAW magazine’s team, March 2023. Source
Colleagues gathered around a table during the farewell.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
A wide group photograph of colleagues at the farewell.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
The author and a colleague in conversation during the gathering.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
A two-person photograph from the author’s farewell gathering.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
The author with a colleague at his professional farewell.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
Three colleagues photographed together at the farewell.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
The author and a colleague at the office farewell.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
A group photograph of three members of the team.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
A wider office scene from the team’s farewell gathering.
From the farewell gathering with the Galadari team, 2023. Source
A formal portrait at the 2025 professional gathering.
Professional gathering in Dubai, October 2025. Source
The author reading a printed booklet at the 2025 gathering.
Professional gathering in Dubai, October 2025. Source
Three attendees at a standing table during the 2025 reception.
Professional gathering in Dubai, October 2025. Source
A candid moment among attendees at the 2025 professional gathering.
Professional gathering in Dubai, October 2025. Source