Mamuna Farooq

Spear’s Review

Mamuna Farooq is a private client partner with Keystone Law in London, specialising in advising ultra-high-net-worth families in the Gulf states and further into the Middle East.

She joined Keystone in 2022, maintaining a network of family offices and individual clients through regular travel to the region. ‘I am privileged to often be the first point of contact in the UK for my clients, and am entrusted with the role of supporting families in relation to their UK estates, a service akin to a family office,' Farooq says. 

With expertise in Sharia succession planning issues, Farooq is well-placed to help patriarchs, matriarchs and multi-generational families in the Gulf States to have governance conversations which take into account cultural and religious considerations.  

Adviser Profile: 

Mamuna is a London-based international lawyer specialising in private wealth and tax. Mamuna’s high-profile client base includes members of Middle Eastern Royal Families and esteemed UHNW private clients. She has a loyal client following globally, particularly throughout the Gulf States. 

Given her affluent client base, Mamuna provides strategic and commercial advice to wealthy families, entrepreneurs, and real estate investors on UK tax planning, the effective structuring of assets, and the devolution of family wealth. Her practice regularly considers cross-border succession planning for international clients who have personal and business assets all over the world. 

Mamuna is entrusted to support families with highly sensitive, complex, high-value probate and administration of deceaseds’ estates, notably managing a UK estate valued at £65 million for a high-profile international client. Recognised as an award-winning and leading private client adviser in the Middle Eastern market, Mamuna is a specialist in Sharia (Islamic) succession planning, a complex and integral offering that differentiates her as a trusted adviser for UHNW families. 

Her practice is relationship-driven, formed on trust, and established on the foundations of initiating a relationship and instilling confidence through the production of technically sound and strategically sensible legal advice on complex estates. 

As part of her commitment to providing a first-class and bespoke service, Mamuna regularly travels across the Middle East and to Europe to visit her clients. She has forged strong allegiances with private banks, embassies, mortgage brokers, estate agents, tax advisers, property managers and private client intermediaries to provide a seamless and holistic approach to managing her clients’ wealth.