Raya Abu Gulal is an award winning, multilingual legal advisor and the Founder and Managing Partner of RAG Legal Consultants, based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She advises SME’s, multinationals and governmental companies based in the GCC region and clients across US, and Europe on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters focusing on, establishing businesses, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, employment, compliance/regulatory and general corporate matters. Prior to setting up her legal consultancy, Raya worked for two leading International Law Firms Simmons&Simmons and Reed Smith. She is also the Founder and Chair of the Women Lawyers Group-Middle East. Raya was appointed as an advisor for the Middle East, for the Diplomatic World Institute (Brussels). Raya holds an LLB law degree from the University of Westminster and completed a LPC from the College of Law in London. She fluent in Arabic, Dutch and English.