Dani Azmi Bio

Dani Azmi is a Partner at Stephenson Harwood, bringing over 20 years of experience advising governments, sovereign wealth funds, national oil companies, and state-owned enterprises across the UK, Middle East, and Far East. His practice is focused on sovereign strategy, offering counsel on complex, cross-border matters involving infrastructure, energy, PPP and sovereign crisis response. Dani’s practice is distinguished by his involvement in structuring sovereign-backed investment platforms and joint ventures, and private credit funds.  He has advised on development of commodity and RMB-denominated trading platforms, helping sovereign clients align financial and resource infrastructure with long-term national strategies and security. Clients value Dani’s ability to tackle high-stakes challenges, such as asset recovery, strategic restructuring and dispute-sensitive investments, often in politically or commercially sensitive environments. His advice is grounded in a nuanced understanding of sovereign risk, governance frameworks, and the evolving global regulatory and geopolitical landscape. Sovereign clients and their counterparts consistently rely on Dani’s ability to navigate the intersection of law, geopolitics and capital, making him a trusted advisor on some of the most consequential sovereign-led initiatives.