Louise Vun Bio

Louise is a partner in our Dubai office who has developed considerable experience in a wide range of real estate and hospitality matters in the Middle East over her seventeen years in the region. She is one of the very few specialists in the region that has genuine regional hands-on experience of advising on master community developments, mixed use developments, jointly owned property developments, gated communities and strata scheme developments. Her wider real estate experience covers real estate finance, sale and leasebacks, restructurings and joint ventures. She is also familiar with the structural requirements of Sharia-compliant real estate transactions. Louise has worked on some of the market's first real estate transactions in the Middle East structured for international institutional investors. She represents a wide range of clients including government entities, international and local corporates, luxury fashion houses, hotel and resort owners, high-net-worth individuals, airport operators, oil field operators, school operators, private equity firms, project sponsors, sellers, purchasers, investors, owners, developers, lenders, borrowers to landlords and tenants. Louise is also a registered Will Draftsman with the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Wills Service Centre.