Mazin El Amin
Mazin is a bilingual dispute resolution specialist based in Dubai. He advises and represents both domestic and international organisations in disputes relating to shipping, insurance and commercial matters.
Mazin has extensive experience prosecuting and defending claims in the UAE local courts at all levels, as well as acting in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations under the LMAA and DIFC-LCIA rules (prior to its amalgamation into the Dubai International Arbitration Centre).
He has significant experience representing international shipowners regarding limitation of liability throughout his career and was a member of the team who successfully obtained a landmark decision before the Dubai World Tribunal. This was the first reported case in the UAE, acknowledging a shipowners ability to establish a limitation fund before the UAE Courts.
Mazin has also enforced LMAA arbitral awards via the local courts in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the Emirate of Sharjah.