Jamie Nelson

Bio

Jamie Nelson is Managing Director - Legal for Dubai International Capital where he is responsible for overseeing the in-house legal department. Prior to joining Dubai International Capital in July 2007, Jamie worked in Toronto and New York with the law firm of Fasken Martineau from 2001 to 2005, and then with DLA Piper, based in London and Dubai, from 2005 to 2007. During his tenure with those law firms, Jamie gained a wealth of experience in private equity and M&A transactions. While with Fasken Martineau, Jamie was a member of the Emerging Global Business Group, a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to serving high growth private and public companies and members of the venture capital and investment banking community. The breadth of Jamie’s legal experience encompasses advising on complex, high value, international corporate and commercial transactions which he gained by working closely with private equity houses, venture capitalists, investment banks and emerging high-growth private companies. While at DIC, Jamie has been an integral part of the in-house legal team that was named the 2008 Corporate In-House Legal Team of the Year by the Dubai Corporate Counsel Group. The team was also nominated in 2008 for the Financial News Legal Awards’ In-House Legal Team of the Year and Private Equity World Awards MENA’s Legal Team of the Year. Jamie has also co-authored an article published in Journal of Law and Social Policy and had two of his private practice deals listed in Lexpert magazine’s “Big Deals”. Jamie holds a Juris Doctor law degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, as well as an undergraduate degree from Carleton University (major in law, minor in English). Jamie was called to the bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada as a barrister and solicitor in 2002.