Ghassan Makki
FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER - FINANCIAL MARKETS AND DIGITAL ASSETS
Ghassan Makki leads the firm's push into next-generation finance, marrying deep courtroom experience with front-line blockchain know-how. Over 15 years he has steered multinational corporates, DIFC fintechs and family offices through the full digital-asset life-cycle—licensing under VARA, SCA and ADGM rulebooks; designing tokenisation structures for real estate, gold and private equity; and building stable-coin settlement rails with UAE clearing banks.
Recently he masterminded a US $240m tokenised-property platform in South Dubai, structured a cross-border DAO governance stack for a GCC family office, and secured dual VARA/ADGM authorisations for a crypto-native neobank rolling out BIN-sponsored debit cards. Ghassan also advises on CBDC integration, MiCAR equivalency, on-chain KYC, and AI-driven compliance tooling—drawing on thousands of data-points from his proprietary litigation-forecasting model that has underpinned AED 1.3 bn in client matters since 2021.
A graduate of Al Neelain University (LL.B., 2009), he is a Registered Legal Consultant in Dubai and a regular commentator on Gulf Business, Bloomberg Arabia and Dubai Future Blockchain Summit panels. Ghassan blends Sudanese resilience with Dubai dynamism to help clients capitalise on Web3 without losing sight of risk or reputation.