Dilip Massand – Nominee for Member-at-Large

Dilip Massand

Member, Legal Affairs Committee
AmCham Abu Dhabi
Chief Executive Officer
Phoenix Advisors
Citizenship: U.S.A.

Individual Member


Mr. Massand is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Phoenix Advisors, Ltd., an Abu Dhabi based firm focused on Legal Finance, Knowledge Transfer, and Innovation in the Legal Industry across the globe. 

Phoenix also offers dispute resolution and advisory services to clients seeking to navigate multijurisdictional issues and invest in regional distressed credit opportunities.  Mr. Massand has over 20 years of international experience working with Institutional Investors, Multinational Corporations, Banks, and Family Offices in the United States, the Middle East, and India.

He holds a Juris Doctor in Comparative Constitutional Law from New York Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Boston University. He is a member of the International and New York State Bar Associations, ABANA (formerly the Arab Bankers Association of North America), a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Dubai Chapter, and serves on New York Law School’s ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) Skills Advisory Committee as well as the Global Advisory Committee of EFE (Education for Employment) – a non-profit organization that has created over 160,000 jobs for Arab youth over the past 10 years.