Tania Afrin

Tania has over seven years’ experience advising on real estate matters across the Middle East and the UK and relocated to the Middle East in 2024. Based in the firm’s Dubai office, she advises on domestic and cross-border real estate matters across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman, acting for developers, landlords and tenants, investors and government-owned entities, as well as clients in the hotel, leisure, education and retail sectors. Her practice covers a broad range of transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant matters, development and construction projects, and the structuring of real estate investments and transactions. Her recent Middle East experience includes advising international schools on the development of schools in Dubai, including the negotiation of build-to-suit agreements, leases and management agreements; a government-owned entity on the acquisition of granted land for the development of a national housing project in Abu Dhabi; a Qatari developer on the acquisition of a prime development plot and the development of branded residences and a five-star hotel in Muscat; and clients on the leasing of Grade A office space and industrial land in Saudi Arabia. She has also advised a UAE-based client on the structuring of the acquisition, development and off-plan sale of real estate projects in Saudi Arabia. Prior to relocating to the Middle East, Tania practised in the UK for five years, where she developed particular expertise advising national housebuilders and developers on large-scale residential and commercial development projects. Her experience included residential-led brownfield site regeneration schemes, mixed-use developments, urban extensions, and the acquisition and development of agricultural and greenfield land. This experience, combined with her regional knowledge, enables her to provide strategic and commercially focused advice across the full development lifecycle, from site acquisition and structuring through to development, delivery and disposal.