Ayda Habboush

Ayda is a Partner in the Corporate team with almost 20 years' experience advising on complex UK and international corporate transactions. She brings a commercially focused, solutions-driven approach to every matter she handles.

Ayda advises a diverse client base, including private companies, institutional investors, ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices, across mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate, corporate restructuring and Islamic finance, with a particular specialism in inward investment from the MENA and ASEAN regions.

As Head of Trowers' Hotel & Leisure Group, Ayda is one of the firm's leading advisers on hotel and leisure transactions. She advises clients on the full spectrum of hotel asset classes, from luxury and boutique hotels to serviced apartments and apart-hotels, and has particular expertise in structuring cross-border hotel acquisitions, including Shariah-compliant structures. Her deep understanding of the commercial and structural complexities of hotel transactions makes her a trusted adviser to investors deploying capital into the hospitality sector.

Beyond hotels, Ayda advises on the acquisition of offices and student accommodation, the structuring of Shariah-compliant acquisitions of shares and assets, the establishment of Shariah-compliant offshore funds, and general corporate matters including joint ventures and group reorganisations.

A director on the board of the Arab Bankers Association, and a member of the firm's Islamic Finance team and the Arab British Chamber of Commerce, Ayda is fluent in Arabic and French.