Anwar Elemiry

Anwar Elemiry is a legal consultant with 19 years of professional experience, including around 14 years working across the UAE, GCC, wider Middle East and Far East. His practice focuses on complex commercial and civil disputes, arbitration, corporate and financial matters, banking, investment, intellectual property, employment, real estate, construction and cross-border transactions. He has developed a particular focus on INTERPOL-related matters, including Red Notices, international arrest and extradition matters, cross-border criminal allegations, requests concerning the deletion, correction or review of INTERPOL data, and cases involving the alleged misuse of INTERPOL mechanisms. His work in this area often requires the coordination of legal strategies across multiple jurisdictions and engagement with local and international counsel in matters where criminal, regulatory and cross-border enforcement issues overlap. He also has particular expertise in virtual and digital assets disputes, including cryptocurrency transactions, crypto investments, token transfers, digital wallets, blockchain transactions, exchange-related disputes, smart contracts, digital asset ownership and control, tracing and recovery of digital assets, fraudulent or disputed transfers and cross-border enforcement involving crypto-related assets. His work extends to wider FinTech and technology-related matters, including artificial intelligence, AI-based services, automated transactions, technology contracts, data-related issues, platform liability and the legal consequences arising from the use of artificial intelligence in commercial, financial and professional activities. He advises on both regulatory and dispute-related issues arising from emerging technologies, with a strong interest in the interaction between traditional legal principles and rapidly developing areas such as blockchain, digital finance and AI. His transactional practice includes drafting, reviewing and negotiating major commercial agreements, shareholder arrangements, joint ventures, settlements, sale and purchase agreements, construction contracts, technology-related agreements and documentation connected with digital assets and innovative financial transactions. In construction and real estate matters, he advises on contracts, subcontracts, procurement arrangements, consultancy agreements, contractor and employer claims, payment disputes, delay and variation claims, project disputes, arbitration and litigation. His broader dispute-resolution practice includes complex commercial, corporate and financial disputes, particularly those involving cross-border transactions, technology, digital finance and enforcement. His approach combines traditional litigation and arbitration experience with an understanding of the legal and evidential challenges created by cryptocurrency, blockchain, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. He has undertaken specialist education in artificial intelligence, FinTech, blockchain, contract law, arbitration, anti-money laundering and technology regulation, including programs connected with Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Cambridge International Studies and the Blockchain Council. He was recognised in Malaysia in 2024 as one of the Top 25 Rising Lawyers. His advisory work has included confidential legal and business advice to private offices serving Sheikhs and members of ruling families in the UAE, as well as prominent international public figures and professionals within the entertainment sector. His international practice is supported by professional relationships with law firms and legal professionals across China, Southeast Asia, the GCC and other jurisdictions, enabling him to coordinate cross-border legal strategies in matters involving enforcement, INTERPOL, digital assets, commercial disputes and international transactions. He continues the legal legacy of Elemiry Advocates and Legal Consultants, founded by his father, Nabil Elemiry, in Egypt in 1983.

- Bachelor of law - Course in intellectual property in arbitration by Cairo University - Course in Civil & Commercial contract disputes In International Arbitration by Cairo University - Course in criminal skills by bar Egyptian association

- Legal Consultant, registered at the Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department - International arbitrator certified by League Arab states. - International arbitrator certified by International Arbitration Egyptian Centre - Consultant in International Arbitration - Consultant & Member of Arab Lawyers Union for Intellectual Property Protection in League Arab states - Consultant & Member of International Arbitration Egyptian Centre - Member of Arab lawyers Union - Member of Egyptian Bar Association