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Dounia Mansour
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Dounia is a partner in our Dubai office where she focuses on investment funds, corporate and finance. Her experience includes DIFC, ADGM and SCA domiciled funds, private equity, debt, infrastructure, real estate and funds of funds, as well as master-feeder and Shari’ah compliant fund structures. She represents sponsors as well as fund managers. Dounia’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, and family offices across the MENA region.
Dounia is consistently ranked a top funds lawyer in the Middle East by independent legal publications and directories. She was most recently awarded “Next Generation Partner in Investment Funds” in 2025 and prior to that “Investment Funds Rising Star of the Year” for the past two consecutive years, at the Legal 500 MENA Awards.
Representative experience
An international manager in connection with the establishment of two umbrella public funds set-up as protected cell companies and their sub-funds in the DIFC.*
A DIFC based fund manager on the launch of a Shari’ah-compliant European logistics fund in the DIFC.*
Global Frontier Capital on the establishment of one of the first green-labelled fund in the MENA region.*
An ADGM fund manager in connection with the establishment of a series of private credit funds in the ADGM.*
A Qatari investment bank in connection with the launch of a multi-strategy investment fund platform in the Cayman Islands.*
An Indian fund manager on the establishment of a public fund formed as a protected cell company in the ADGM with sub-funds acting as a feeder funds for Indian equities funds.*
An ADGM based fund manager in connection with the establishment of an umbrella fund set-up as an incorporated cell company in the ADGM and its sub-funds with various investment strategies.*
A Saudi fund manager on the establishment of a private equity fund domiciled in Saudi Arabia regulated by the Saudi Arabian Capital Market Authority (CMA).*
An ADGM-based fund manager on the establishment of two real estate funds in the ADGM focused on European real estate.*
A U.S. fund manager in connection with the establishment of hedge funds in the Cayman Islands.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- Masters, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris), 2012
- Diploma, Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris, 2012
- Masters, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 2009
- Licence in French Private Law, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 2007
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Paris