Lawyer Profile
Jouslin Khairallah
Designation: Founder & Managing Director – Senior Lawyer
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Practice Areas
- Corporate Affairs
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Domestic and International Arbitration
- Labor Law
- Litigation
- Mediation
Biography
Jouslin Khairallah is the Founder & Managing Director of Khairallah Advocates and Legal Consultants. She’s one of the top lawyers in Dubai. Being a profound litigator / advocate / advisor, she represents large Middle East and Multinational Corporate Entities and Individuals in representing them in complex and high value corporate, commercial, criminal, maritime, banking, construction, real estate, insurance, family, employment, rent disputes. Mrs. Jouslin Khairallah has become a member of UIA (International Association of Lawyers) in 2022.
She’s licensed to appear before all courts in the UAE, including Federal Supreme Court, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC).
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Leadership and Practice
As Founder and Managing Director, Jouslin Khairallah has built KH Legal from a Dubai practice into a firm acting for multinational corporations, regional business groups and private clients across the Emirates. Her caseload reflects that range: complex and high-value disputes in corporate and commercial law, criminal defense, maritime, banking, construction, real estate, insurance, employment and tenancy — often matters where several of those areas collide and a single strategic mind must hold the whole picture.
She is licensed to appear before all courts of the UAE, including the Federal Supreme Court and the DIFC Courts, and has been a member of the UIA (International Association of Lawyers) since 2022 — keeping the firm connected to international best practice while remaining deeply rooted in Emirati law and procedure.
Clients who work with Jouslin describe the same pattern: a frank assessment first, a clear strategy second, and persistent execution until the matter is resolved. That philosophy — candor before comfort — runs through every department she leads and every lawyer the firm trains.
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Corporate Strategy, Restructuring & Anti-Money Laundering
Beyond the courtroom, Jouslin Khairallah has built a distinctive senior practice at the intersection of company strategy, corporate restructuring and anti-money laundering — the three disciplines that converge whenever a business faces its hardest moments.
Her restructuring work spans the full arc: advising over-indebted but viable companies on creditor negotiations and workout structures, guiding boards through the duties that shift when insolvency approaches, and steering businesses through the security and compliance scrutiny that financial distress attracts. It is strategy work with legal teeth — reorganizing what a company is, not merely what it owes.
On the anti-money laundering side, her practice runs both directions: building AML compliance frameworks for businesses that must satisfy the UAE’s regulators, and defending clients whose accounts, transactions or names have been drawn into AML proceedings. Having stood on both sides — designing the compliance files and taking them apart in defense — she brings to each side what only the other side teaches. Her security-sensitive AML casework has made this one of the practices clients specifically seek her out for.
Practice pages: AML defense · AML compliance · company restructuring.
Leadership & Recognition
Jouslin Khairallah founded this firm in 2008 from a single office in Dubai Healthcare City, under the Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for SMEs — earning its best-service recognition within the first year — and has led it through eighteen years of growth into the international practice now known as KH Legal. She remains a working lawyer first: licensed before every court in the UAE including the Federal Supreme Court and DIFC Courts, a member of the UIA (International Association of Lawyers) since 2022, and personally in charge of the firm’s anti-money laundering, restructuring and corporate strategy practices. Read the firm’s story — from Healthcare City to Churchill Tower.
Selected Publications & Practice Pages by Jouslin Khairallah
- Money Laundering Defense in the UAE — the accused person’s guide to Federal Decree-Law 20/2018 proceedings
- AML Compliance for UAE Businesses — DNFBPs, goAML and the Cabinet Resolution 55/2025 KYC framework
- Company Restructuring & Insolvency — rescue and workout strategy under Bankruptcy Law 51/2023
- Defining the Crime of Kidnap in the UAE — criminal law analysis
- Our Story: From Khairallah Advocates to KH Legal — the founding and the rebrand
The firm’s complete archive of 600+ legal analyses — many produced under her editorial direction — is at the KH Legal blog; the heritage archive under the firm’s founding name remains at khairallahlegal.com.
Qualifications & Career
| 2001–2003 | Bachelor of Law — Beirut Arab University |
| 2004–2005 | English language studies — American University in Dubai (AUD) |
| 2005 | Practicing Lawyer training — Law Institute, UAE Ministry of Justice |
| 2005–2006 | Practicing Lawyer training — Al Jarowdy Law Firm |
| 2006–2008 | Lawyer — Bin Shabib Associates; Ja’afar Alwan Al Jaziri Associates |
| Nov 2008 – present | Founder & Managing Director — KH Legal (Khairallah Advocates & Legal Consultants) |
Award: Managing Director of the Year 2016
Awarded Managing Director of the Year 2016 by Women in Law — recognition of a career that has made her, in the words often used by peers and clients, an established face of Arab women’s entrepreneurship in the region’s legal profession.
Track Record
- Victories at the Courts of First Instance and Appeal across civil, criminal, family, real estate and rental, maritime, traffic and human-rights matters
- Extensive out-of-court settlements and mediations in commercial, civil and criminal disputes — resolution before litigation whenever it serves the client
- Participation in police investigations spanning theft, breach of contract, bounced cheques, fraud, assault, domestic violence and abuse cases
- Licensed to appear before all UAE courts, including the Federal Supreme Court, the DIFC Courts, and before the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC)
- Regular lecturer on legal awareness, organizing seminars and workshops including child-protection education
Professional Memberships
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- UIA — International Association of Lawyers (since 2022)
- Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) — Associate Member
- DIFC Courts — Registered Legal Practitioner
- UAE National Committee for the ICC
- Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry · Egypt Chamber of Commerce & Industry
- Dubai Business Women Council · Dubai International Business Women Council · Abu Dhabi Business Women Council
- Women in Law · Emirates Human Rights Association · German–Emirati business associations