About ASTRUC & Co
Personal legal counsel for life’s most important decisions — your family, your assets, and your future in the UAE and beyond.
Who we are
Our values
Our identity pillars and the standards we hold ourselves to in every engagement.
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Access to justice
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Senior-level access
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Cross-border fluency
A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
“As a UAE-based law firm, ASTRUC & Co operates much like an international firm with its partners and associates, as well as independent lawyers, advocates, and consultants who are brought in based on the specific skill sets required for your case.”
Over the last 14 years, Romain Astruc has lived in Dubai and developed know-how — directly or on a management basis — across various areas of law in the UAE, Oman, KSA, the MENA region, West Africa, and Western Europe, including the UK. His field of expertise is wide, and several of his clients tag him with the nickname “wide-range-lawyer.”
"A thing is not just because it is law,
but it must be law because it is just."
Montesquieu
Our team
ASTRUC & Co. is a local law firm that operates alike an international firm with its own partners and associates, as well as with independent cooperation lawyers, advocates and consultants who are involved on your matters if their specific skill set is required .
Attorneys & legal experts
Managing Partner
including family businesses, innovative start-ups, Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWI), as well as corporations both small and large, successfully delivering robust legal frameworks and strategic growth solutions for a diverse international clientele. With over a decade of extensive regional experience in the United Arab Emirates, he previously managed highly complex business insolvency and corporate structuring cases, and holds distinguished Master's degrees in Law and Criminology from University Paris XI and Paris II.
He specializes in family, corporate, and litigation law, successfully delivering practical, highly effective legal solutions and robust defense strategies for a wide variety of clients across the UAE. With an exceptional track record spanning over thirty years of dedicated public service and legal practice, he previously served with the prestigious Dubai Police force, reaching the highly distinguished rank of Brigadier General, and holds extensive, recognized legal credentials essential for navigating the complex local jurisdictional and regulatory frameworks within the region.
successfully guiding institutional investors through intricate financial landscapes and emerging market opportunities. With almost twenty-five years of extensive global legal experience, he previously advised a wide variety of clients on post-conflict and post-transitional market entries across the Middle East, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe, and holds comprehensive US-based, United States-trained international legal credentials that strongly support his exceptional capacity to structure highly sophisticated multinational corporate operations and multi-jurisdictional investment funds.
successfully navigating remarkably complex cross-border legal frameworks and compliance structures across the MENA, Europe, USA, and Asia Pacific regions. With a deeply impressive career spanning over two decades of international legal practice, she previously served as a Group General Counsel in Dubai and successfully managed major corporate operations, and holds extremely prestigious Paris Bar legal credentials that consistently enable her to facilitate massive, multi-national commercial expansions while meticulously mitigating complex cross-jurisdictional corporate legal risks.
successfully delivering extraordinarily diligent and perfectly tailored legal support to a broad spectrum of regional and international clients. With extensive civil law expertise spanning many years of highly focused legal practice, she previously handled exceptionally diverse family law cases and complex contractual negotiations, and holds a prestigious Master's Degree in Notarial Law alongside a Higher Diploma in Notarial Law obtained from the widely respected Aix-Marseille University located in the south of France.
successfully representing an incredibly diverse array of clients through complex regulatory environments and high-stakes negotiations across the UAE. With well over twenty years of immensely valuable and practical legal experience in the region, he previously practiced extensively within the demanding Egyptian legal sector handling highly sensitive civil and criminal proceedings, and holds a highly recognized academic degree in regional jurisprudence that deeply informs his strategic, client-first approach to multi-layered modern corporate litigation.
successfully navigating extremely complex business frameworks to flawlessly deliver exceptional results for various massive local industries and elite organizations. With unparalleled regional connections and truly exceptional business acumen, he previously advised highly influential members of the Dubai royal family on remarkably intricate corporate matters, and holds a phenomenally strong background in UAE business consultancy that empowers him to seamlessly bridge the gap between complex governmental regulations and incredibly ambitious, large-scale commercial business objectives.
Associate
She specializes as a family and litigation lawyer, successfully supporting high-profile clients across complicated international jurisdictions while consistently delivering highly tailored, pragmatic solutions. With exactly two decades of outstanding legal experience since joining the French bar in 2004, she previously served as a highly respected partner at a prestigious Paris law firm handling elite clientele, and holds a highly esteemed Master in Private Law from the universally recognized Paris Nanterre University, underscoring her impeccable foundation in demanding civil and contractual matters.
Meet the full team
She specialises in comprehensive firm management, successfully transforming internal organisation, people strategy, brand direction and marketing execution into a powerful operational framework that strengthens the firm’s commercial presence, institutional growth and international reputation. With a uniquely diverse background spanning journalism, creative direction, retail business ownership, brand development and operational management, she brings a remarkably structured, detail-oriented and highly intuitive approach to business organisation, communication, people and standards. Through this, she ensures that Astruc & Co.’s internal discipline, brand consistency and operational strength translate into stronger commercial credibility, sustained growth and a more authoritative international presence.
She specialises in invoice preparation, billing cycle management and receivables tracking, successfully transforming the firm's financial processes into a reliable, transparent and highly efficient framework that supports the firm's legal teams, strengthens client relationships and reinforces its professional standards. With an impressive background in financial administration and billing operations, she brings a detail-oriented, process-driven and highly methodical approach to financial coordination, communication, and internal compliance. Through this, she ensures that Astruc & Co.'s billing discipline and financial accuracy translate into stronger client trust, seamless operational continuity and a more authoritative institutional presence.
She specialises in website management, social media, content and design strategy, performance marketing and CRM management, successfully building and sustaining a cohesive marketing infrastructure that supports the firm's legal teams. With a strong background in public relations and social media, complemented by MBA in Marketing, she brings an audience-first and execution-driven approach to brand building, digital performance and systems operations.
consistently delivering robust and optimized comprehensive fiscal frameworks for international corporate clients and internal stakeholders. With over twelve years of specialized corporate financial expertise, he previously guided international corporate tax planning and standard multi-jurisdictional audits, and holds academic qualifications in corporate finance and advanced corporate accounting, providing a reliable foundation for his responsibilities in overseeing the firm's standard financial compliance and supporting the broader administration team's daily efforts.
successfully navigating incredibly demanding market dynamics to beautifully deliver exceptional results for massive developers, wealthy investors, and real estate investment trusts. With unparalleled, lifelong regional knowledge and remarkably deep industry connections, he previously advised immensely successful global enterprises on highly critical regulatory and commercial real estate operations, and holds a phenomenally strong background in UAE business consultancy that empowers him to seamlessly bridge complex real estate transactions with incredibly ambitious, large-scale commercial business objectives.
successfully ensuring beautifully data-driven, commercially focused corporate solutions across multiple, incredibly demanding international legal jurisdictions. With exceptionally deep regulatory expertise and a truly outstanding analytical mindset, he previously advised a remarkably diverse array of massive corporations and high-profile individuals on absolutely critical multi-national operational licensing, and proudly holds a remarkably strong educational background in advanced business administration and highly complex legal compliance structures essential for modern, completely secure global commercial operations.
successfully delivering wonderfully clear, beautifully practical corporate operational solutions across incredibly complex and constantly evolving UAE regulatory frameworks. With absolutely extensive administrative expertise and deeply impressive organizational capabilities, she previously facilitated extremely complex, highly demanding international corporate structural setups and massive multi-jurisdictional licensing procedures, and proudly holds a truly comprehensive academic background in advanced business management and highly complex regional regulatory affairs essential for absolutely seamless, perfectly compliant modern commercial business expansions.
successfully helping a massive array of incredibly ambitious clients beautifully achieve absolutely transparent, wonderfully efficient, and perfectly compliant regional corporate operational setups. With truly extensive, remarkably deep financial advisory expertise, he previously facilitated extraordinarily efficient, highly complex corporate financial structures and exceptionally demanding massive multi-jurisdictional tax reconciliations, and proudly holds a phenomenally strong, deeply specialized academic background in advanced international corporate accounting and incredibly complex modern global commercial finance structures.
consistently providing the firm with practical, analytical, and precise comprehensive financial insights and compliance-focused operational budgets. With strong and detail-oriented analytical capabilities, he previously oversaw strict compliance-focused financial operations and standard corporate audits for regional organizations, and holds a solid academic background in advanced corporate accounting and corporate finance management tailored to support the demanding operational needs and internal fiscal reporting requirements of a busy international law and consulting firm.
