Speaker profile

Ian Arnott

Senior Counsel
Al Tamimi & Company

Ian specialises in all aspects of hotels and leisure and real estate related matters throughout the GCC.

Ian has extensive experience in hotel acquisitions and disposals, hotel/serviced apartments management agreements and ancillary documentation for both hotel owners and operators (both hotels under construction and reflagging), branded residence related agreements and rental pool arrangements, hotel franchise agreements and hotel retail and F&B leasing.

Ian trained in the City of London and qualified as a lawyer in England & Wales in 2006. He moved to the region in 2008 with a leading international firm where he worked in both its Doha and Dubai offices for a number of years, before joining Al Tamimi & Company in early 2017.