Paul Turner

Paul Turner is a Senior Counsel at AFFAKI FZ LLC in the UAE. 

He graduated in law from UCL, and as an English qualified solicitor, he has over 40 years of commercial legal experience as a partner in City of London legal firms and in one of the UAE’s leading law firms.

His experience has been largely in the field of international disputes before the LCIA, ICC, LMAA, LME, RSA, GAFTA, FOSFA, SAL, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC, SCC as well as court cases in the English High Court, Court of Appeal and the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court). He has also handled ad hoc arbitrations in Geneva, Moscow, Doha, London and Dubai.

His clients over the years have included the Governments of various Middle Eastern countries and Central Asia plus some of the world’s largest commodity companies.

Paul has also acted as an arbitrator in proceedings under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, LMAA, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC and in a number of ad hoc matters.