Islam Abdelal
Consultant Solicitor in Corporate Law
London 020 3745 6535 Truro 01872 672072
Profile:
Islam is a dual-qualified corporate and commercial solicitor bringing more than 15 years of international legal and advisory experience across private practice, in-house leadership, and strategic M&A integration. His career spans leading global institutions, including McKinsey & Company, where he served as Associate General Counsel and later Director of Integration within the Firm’s New Ventures group. In these roles, he advised on complex cross-border transactions, joint ventures, and risk-sensitive client engagements while developing integration models to support acquisitions across multiple jurisdictions.
Islam’s practice focuses on advising businesses, private equity sponsors, and growth-stage companies on mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracting, corporate structuring, and post-transaction integration. Islam acts as a Corporate and Commercial Solicitor, advising clients on business and asset sales, shareholder arrangements, corporate governance, and the drafting and negotiation of a wide range of commercial agreements. His legal career further includes extensive experience with private markets clients through his role as Attorney Partner at Ontra, where he supported leading investment firms on high-volume transaction documentation, including NDAs, engagement letters, and investment-related contractual frameworks.
Islam’s blended background—private practice training at top international firms, senior in-house experience at McKinsey, and specialist expertise in acquisition integration—enables him to bring a uniquely commercial, operational, and pragmatic perspective to his legal work. He is particularly adept at navigating the interplay between legal risk, business objectives, and post-deal execution, making him a trusted advisor to clients seeking both transactional support and strategic insight.
Islam is a Solicitor of England & Wales and an Attorney admitted in California. He is fluent in Arabic and holds degrees from Brown University and Durham University.
