UAE Boutique Law Firm · Disputes Firm Dubai · Best Law Firm UAE · Specialist Disputes Firm · UAE Legal Awards 2026
OGH Legal has been named UAE Boutique Firm of the Year 2026 at the Legal 500 Middle East & North Africa Awards, as the firm marks a decade of disputes-only practice.
We were founded in Dubai in 2016 on a single principle: the UAE needed a firm built entirely for disputes. Not a disputes department inside a full-service firm. A practice where every partner, every associate and every file is focused on one thing – resolving disputes. Especially the ones others cannot. That principle has not changed in ten years. It is what defines us and what the market keeps coming back to.
OGH acts across every UAE court and arbitral forum – Dubai Courts, DIFC Courts, ADGM, Abu Dhabi Courts, Federal Courts, ICC, LCIA, DIAC among others – when the matter is too important to delegate to a generalist practice. We are sole counsel on many of the UAE’s most significant disputes.
In ten years we have handled more than 1,700 cases and 400+ enforcement mandates, including acting for a European tax authority in AED 4.643BN CumEx recovery proceedings at the Dubai Court of Cassation, managing a USD 3.7 billion NPL portfolio recovery for a leading UAE bank, and leading the most complex cross-border insolvency enforcement currently before the UAE courts. We have pioneered enforcement tools in UAE proceedings, credit-bidding, share auctions, abandoned property attachment that no other firm had previously deployed.
“I am not aware of any other disputes-only firm in the UAE. They are hardcore litigators — you do not want them against you.” — Legal 500 EMEA 2026
“The first choice for international law firms with complex UAE court litigation.” — Chambers Global 2026
OGH Legal is ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 EMEA and holds Chambers Global rankings across Dispute Resolution, Construction and Restructuring & Insolvency – the only UAE boutique to hold all three simultaneously.
Ten years in. This is just the beginning.
Our rankings:
Chambers Global profile → chambers.com
Legal 500 EMEA profile → legal500.com
Meet our experts → oghlegal.com/who-we-are
For further information on our dispute resolution, insolvency, enforcement and real estate disputes practice:
Polly Lloyd
Director of Marketing & Business Development | OGH Legal
M: +971 52 546 9134
E: polly.lloyd@oghlegal.com
