Faisal advises and acts in civil and criminal commercial wrongdoing disputes with an offshore focus. The core of Faisal’s work relates to domestic and international civil and criminal asset recovery on behalf of governments and commercial organisations and the worldwide enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards.

His work includes commercial litigation (extensively in the DIFC), corruption, civil and criminal fraud, regulatory enforcement, sanctions and professional discipline. His disciplinary work includes prosecuting before the Taxation Disciplinary Board tribunal and defending before the ICAEW and ACCA tribunals.

He also provides technical assistance for capacity building regarding anti-corruption, asset recovery and money laundering across the Commonwealth.

Faisal is the only junior ranked for Criminal Fraud, Civil Fraud and POCA Asset Recovery across the professional directories. He is also ranked in Financial Crime and Business and Regulatory Crime (including global investigations).

‘Faisal is incredibly user friendly and responsive. His written work is excellent, and his advocacy is persuasive. His practice across both civil work and criminal asset forfeiture is a real point of difference.’

‘An extremely intelligent and organised junior.’

| Legal 500, 2025

“Faisal is excellent. His written work is very clear, he is very measured and he has very good legal analysis.”

“Faisal has exceptional knowledge of the DIFC.”

Corporate crime junior of the year, Legal 500, 2023