Dubbed as the “UAE ECM Guru”, Ahmed is the most active capital markets lawyer in the UAE and the region, having led almost all the IPOs and rights issue took place in the UAE since the global financial crisis.

Ahmed is ranked in Band 1 in Equity Capital Markets by Chamber & Partners.

As narrated by Chambers & Partners, Ahmed a “go-to figure for domestic equity capital markets matters” and all innovative and complex capital market structures.

Ahmed was fire-wide Head of the Equity Capital Markets in Al Tamimi & Company Dubai until 2018. Before that, he was a leading partner at Trowers & Hamlins, Cairo office, heading the corporate commercial department and the Group General Counsel of ASEC Group the industrial platform of Citadel Capital Private Equity,

Ahmed has been named Regional Managing Partner of the Year by the IFLR in 2024, and Capital Markets Team of the Year by Chambers & Partners in 2024. 

Ahmed has experience in project finance transactions, equity capital markets, IPO, general corporate/commercial matters, including joint ventures.