Siraj Ahmed

Siraj Ahmed is a partner at Agha & Shamsi, the Dubai affiliate of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and advises on both dispute resolution and corporate/commercial transaction matters.

Mr. Ahmed launched his career in 2002 at an Am Law 100 Chicago-based firm ranked by The American Lawyer as one of the top 5 litigation firms in the United States, where he earned several performance-based bonuses as part of a trial team that successfully litigated a highly technical, multimillion-dollar technology dispute in New York. Mr. Ahmed's Chicago firm experience includes high technology litigation, commercial/corporate transactions, and intellectual property, and he was also awarded the American Bar Association and Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property Law.

Subsequently, Mr. Ahmed continued to serve clients through his own practice in the Boston area, serving as external transactions counsel for U.S. and multinational corporations in connection with commercial relationships, corporate control, venture capital financing, corporate mergers/acquisitions, and Islamic finance transactions, and he has presented at various conferences, including the 2010 International Islamic Finance Conference in the Republic of Malta.

Mr. Ahmed also routinely handles litigation and arbitration matters, including for real property developers and construction companies, for which he acquired a construction supervisor’s license to better understand his clients’ industry. He has accumulated experience with arbitrations conducted by various panels, including the Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Center, International Trade Commission, International Chamber of Commerce, and the American Arbitration Association.

Mr. Ahmed is a member of the State Bar of Massachusetts, and has been previously admitted to the State Bar of Illinois. He is committed to pro bono work, and represents non-profit organizations and asylum applicants. Mr. Ahmed earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2002. He served as an editor for the American Bar Association, a prominent United States legal publication, and co-founded the first Muslim bar association of New England.

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