13 Middle East practitioners rank among Lexology’s top 5% consulting experts worldwide

Global legal platform Lexology has released its Client Choice guide for 2025, placing the spotlights on the top 5% of practitioners worldwide in the areas of business forensics, investigations and litigation.
Established in 2005, the Client Choice by Lexology awards recognises individuals worldwide who stand apart for their ability to deliver outstanding value and maintain strong, trusted relationships with their clients.
The Client Choice awards are based on the feedback from clients (members of in-house counsels), who rate advisors on criteria such as commercial awareness, industry knowledge, strategic thinking, value for money, responsiveness, effective communication, clarity of documentation, sharing of expertise, use of technology, and loyalty and ethics.
Notably, the bar for achieving a Client Choice award is high, with traditionally only 5% of all practitioners listed in the Lexology index managing to attain the status.
This year, 166 experts from the consulting side of the landscape were awarded Client Choice status, with HKA (14), FTI Consulting (14), BRG (12), Secretariat (9), Ankura (6), Alvarez & Marsal (5), Kroll (5), Accuracy (4), and AlixPartners (4) among the consulting firms with the largest number of Client Choice experts among their ranks.
In terms of the Big Four consultancies, EY and KPMG lead the pack with four members each, followed by Deloitte (2) and PwC (1).
In the Middle East, 13 practitioners from 11 consultancies were included in the prestigious list:
Chris Clements
Firm: Deloitte
Category: Commercial Litigation
Country: United Arab Emirates
Juan Sáez
Firm: Accuracy
Category: Arbitration
Country: United Arab Emirates
Jacqui Record
Firm: Ankura
Category: Asset Recovery
Country: United Arab Emirates
Walied Abdeldayem
Firm: CBBG Group
Category: Construction
Country: United Arab Emirates
Ian Greenhough
Firm: Secretariat
Category: Construction
Country: United Arab Emirates
Nader Emile
Firm: HKA
Category: Construction
Country: Saudi Arabia
Kassem Younes
Firm: Ankura
Category: Investigations
Country: Saudi Arabia
Ghazanfar Shah
Firm: K2 Integrity
Category: Investigations
Country: Saudi Arabia
HK Suresha
Firm: Masin
Category: Arbitration
Country: Qatar
Andrew Woodward
Firm: Quantum Global Solutions
Category: Construction
Country: Qatar
Gökhan Altun
Firm: Deloitte
Category: Arbitration
Country: Turkey
Fevzi Toksoy
Firm: ACTECON
Category: Competition
Country: Turkey
Merav Beeri
Firm: Beeri Economic Consulting
Category: Competition
Country: Israel
Across the board, Client Choice awards were handed to around 1,200 practitioners, the most of which are active as lawyers. Alongside the 166 consulting experts, awards were scooped by 29 barristers.