Manal Sanai

Associate, London

Biography

Overview

Manal Sanai is an associate in White & Case's Dispute Resolution group based in London, whose practice focuses on international arbitration. Her experience includes representing clients from a variety of industries in cross-border commercial and construction disputes.

Manal joined White & Case as a trainee solicitor, where she also spent six months in the Firm's Paris office gaining experience in corporate transactions.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, Solicitor
Education
Legal Practice Course
BPP Law School
Graduate Diploma in Law
BPP Law School
BA
International Relations
King's College London
Languages
English
Arabic

Experience

Representing a sovereign state in its defence of enforcement proceedings in the UK pursuant to an award under the UNCITRAL Rules.

Representing a Middle Eastern government in a dispute concerning the construction of an international airport.

Representing a consortium of East Asian contractors in a SIAC arbitration over the construction of a petrochemical refinery in Southeast Asia.

Representing a French buyer in a post-SPA dispute under the ICC Rules. 

Representing an EPC contractor in an ICC arbitration in respect of a chemical processing plant in Western Australia.