Aarta Alkarimi

Personal Bio

Job Title: Managing Partner

Areas of Expertise:

Aarta is a seasoned lawyer, chartered arbitrator, and accredited mediator with significant experience advocating and adjudicating matters pertaining to disputes on large-scale and complex construction, infrastructure, and engineering projects around the world (including major trans-national projects).

As counsel, Aarta practiced law at the New York, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi offices of some of the most well-respected/top tier American firms before setting up Chrysalis. She has been based in the UAE since 2008.

Her list of clients include governments, semi-government and publicly held companies, and private entities for matters pertaining to construction/infrastructure projects and real estate including:

- One of the world's longest trans-national crude oil pipelines
- various utilities networks
- compressor stations
- major airports
- stadiums
- high-rise towers
- schools

Aarta regularly acts as chairperson, party-appointed, or sole arbitrator under various institutional rules and in ad hoc arbitrations.