Sara KhojaCo-Head MEA Employment Group I Partner at Clyde & Co in Dubai

Sara co-heads the MEA Employment Group and divides her time between the UAE and KSA. She is recognised as a leading individual in employment by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and being awarded the Client Choice Award . Sara is bilingual in Arabic and English (is a Saudi national) and experienced in all aspects of regional MEA employment law, advising multinationals, regional conglomerates, and Government owned entities on the full spectrum of employment issues both contentious and non-contentious.

Much of her work involves providing strategic advice to employers (for example advising on restructures, regulatory employment issues (including investigations), M&A employment,  flexible resourcing and employee status issues) in the region enabling them to adopt best practice, deal with global mobility issues (both inbound and outbound), draft and adapt HR policies both global and local to enhance integration and manage employee relations.

Sara regularly presents at seminars and workshops as part of Clyde and Co's regular client programme and also provides extensive training for managers and HR personnel directly for clients and also through a number of training organisations such as JSB, Informa, and Claridon.  She has written for a number of publications, including the New Law Journal, Asian Counsel, Solicitors Journal, and Personnel Today.  She is also regularly quoted in publications such as Gulf News, Gulf Business, Emirates 24/7 and has spoken on Dubai Eye. 

She has contributed UAE chapters to the International Labour and Employment Compliance Handbook (published by Kluwer Law International and the IBA); Corporate Immigration (published by the Oxford University Press) and Compensating Mobile Executives (published by Taxmann).