Professionals

Farah Baidas is a trainee associate in Hourani’s Private Wealth & Family Offices Practice, supporting clients on a range of private client matters with a focus on regulatory advisory, governance frameworks, and cross-border legal research. Farah brings a multidisciplinary background spanning private practice, consulting, and government advisory work across the UAE and the wider GCC.

Prior to joining Hourani, Farah was at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Dubai, having begun her legal career at Clyde & Co and Al Tamimi & Company.

• Private Wealth & Family Offices
• Estate and Succession Planning
• Foundations, Trusts, and Wills
• Corporate and Commercial
• Corporate Structuring and Governance

Farah’s experience includes advising:

• Advised a high-net-worth family on cross-border estate and succession planning, involving a DIFC Foundation, holding structures and international assets.
• Advised private clients on DIFC and ADJD Wills, including mirror Wills, guardianship arrangements and cross-border estates.
• Supported clients on company incorporations and corporate restructurings, including share transfers, governance changes and regulatory filings.
• Supported a cross-border corporate restructuring, including potential redomiciliation to the DIFC and alternative structuring options.
• Assisted with the review of a complex family wealth structure comprising multiple foundations, trusts and corporate entities.

Education

• MA, Medical Ethics and Law, King’s College London, UK
• Legal Practice Course (LPC), BPP University, London, UK
• LLB Law (with Honors), University of Kent, UK

• Arabic
• English