Hdeel Abdelhady is a Washington, D.C. based lawyer and strategy advisor with advising financial institutions, companies, and government-affiliated entities on transactions and regulatory matters often requiring bespoke, cross-disciplinary, and cross-legal system solutions.
The ZTE case illuminates a potentially transformative shift in how the United States deploys its legal and regulatory authority in the international economic arena—a development with profound implications for global commerce, compliance practices, and the rule of law.
Hdeel Abdelhady was quoted in FinOps Report on the AML/compliance implications of President Trump’s designations of drug cartels as FTOs.
Hdeel Abdelhady proposed consumer-oriented insolvency risk allocation in Islamic retail profit sharing investment account reflecting the operation of those accounts in practice.
Who’s Who Legal recognized Hdeel Abdelhady for Corporate M&A and Governance. Hdeel Abdelhady is MassPoint’s founder and principal.
MassPoint’s Founder and Principal, Hdeel Abdelhady, will speak at a program on Islamic Finance at Harvard Law School. Ms. Abdelhady, who has acted as legal counsel to financial institutions, companies, and non-profit organizations on Islamic Finance, banking, and governance matters, teaches a course in Transactional Islamic Law at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.
Hdeel Abdelhady is scheduled to speak at UNCITRAL’s Asia Pacific spring conference in Incheon, South Korea, on global sales and business. More information about the conference is available here (and in Korean here).
BIS advises financial institutions to guard against EAR violations through: (1) screening against export lists, (2) enhanced due diligence for high-risk transactions, (3) derisking, and (4) reporting and self-disclosing EAR violations. The BIS guidance reiterates FIs’ obligation to file suspicious activity reports (SARs) as directed in three prior FinCEN-BIS alerts.
Hdeel Abdelhady, MassPoint’s principal, will moderate an event on the links between emerging technology, national security, and financial services. The event will explore how national security-based concerns around emerging technologies play out in the financial services space.
Hdeel Abdelhady talked to NPR about intensified Iran sanctions and North Korea sanctions, and the United States’ ability to impose strong sanctions owing to U.S. dollar dominance.