Hdeel Abdelhady is the founder and principal of MassPoint PLLC, specializing in international trade law, including sanctions, export controls, foreign investment (CFIUS), and regulation of foreign access to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and semiconductors.

Hdeel’s experience includes academia. She developed and currently teaches a law school course on regulation of foreign access to U.S. technology that explores a continuum of legal and policy measures that restrict, on national security grounds, foreign access to U.S. technologies in commerce, academic, and research spaces. Hdeel has taught part-time at The George Washington University Law School since 2004.

Before founding MassPoint, Hdeel practiced with two U.S.-based international law firms, in Washington, D.C. and in Dubai. Hdeel also served in both locations as secondment counsel to global banks. Hdeel has published on sanctions, export controls, emerging technology law and policy, and other topics. Her articles have appeared in the World Bank Legal Review, Butterworths Journal of Banking and Finance Law, Law360, JD Supra, and Reuters, among other publications. Hdeel has been quoted in various publications on her focus areas, such as on sanctions and related U.S. dollar dominance, and anti-corruption.

Hdeel is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and previously served as a co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Middle East Committee, as the ABA International Section’s liaison to to UNCITRAL, on the ABA’s Rule of Law Initiative’s Middle East and North Africa Council, and on the ABA’s Task Force on Gatekeeper Regulation and the Profession. Hdeel is an adivser to the DC Chapter Board of the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists.