Natalie Boyd

SUMMARY OF CREDENTIALS
Natalie has over 25 years’ experience as a global structured finance and financial services lawyer at partner level and, since establishing Oryx Law in 2018, extensive strategic in-house experience at C-suite level.

Natalie was a partner at K&L Gates LLP (Dubai and London) and Simmons & Simmons (Paris, London and Dubai) prior to which she was senior counsel at Clifford Chance LLP (London and Paris). She has held a number of senior law firm management positions, including Co-Head of Simmons & Simmons UAE Finance practice and Head of K&L Gates’ UAE Financial Services and EU Asset Management practices.

Natalie has specific expertise in cross-border structured finance and securitisation, trade finance, Islamic finance and fund structuring, derivatives and MENA financial services regulation. She is known for advising global institutional clients on complex, often ground-breaking transactions and holds numerous executive board appointments for institutional clients as part of her wider role.

Nominated by IFLR as the leading female practitioner in the UAE and recognised by clients as “a very sharp lawyer with excellent knowledge”. [Chambers Global].

Having worked in the Middle East for 15 years, Natalie now splits her time between London and the UAE.

Natalie is fluent in French.

QUALIFICATIONS
LPC, College of Law, London, 1994
LLB, Kings College, London University, 1992 (Bachelor of Laws Honours)
Admitted Solicitor of England and Wales, 1997