12-15 OCTOBER 2025 / DUBAI HARBOUR

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Henzie Heally

Henzie Heally

Partner & Founder, VA Consultancy

Henzie Healley is an accomplished and skilled, common law qualified lawyer living in Dubai but servicing clients from all around the world. 

Henzie studied Business Management in Canada, before going on to study law in New Zealand. She qualified with an LLB with Honors in New Zealand and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2014. She then moved to Dubai in 2014 after being offered a permanent role at an international law firm she interned for during her school vacations. 

Early 2019 she founded her own legal consultancy. Her firm is a legal consultancy and registered ADGM Corporate Service Provider which is seeking to disrupt the status quo of traditional law firms by giving clients direct and ongoing access to senior legal counsel and improve on the provision of legal and corporate service provider services and the way that such services are provided. 

While the other lawyers that are a part of her team focus on different areas of law, Henzie saw a need for a good startup lawyer five years ago and has not looked back since. A seasoned entrepreneur herself and fintech enthusiast, Henzie has a passion for nurturing innovative startups by providing them the legal guidance and support that they need from seed to inception, to series rounds, all the way to 
IPO or exit. With over five years of hands-on experience in the startup industry, Henzie has played a pivotal role in the growth and success of many companies in the Middle East region. 

Henzie started her journey in Web3.0/Blockchain and with digital assets back in 2017 when she assisted with the setting up of a crypto exchange (while working at a family office). She was then seconded to a crypto mining company in 2021, where she was deeply integrated into the workings of the company before going on to do the same thing for a USD100,000,000 virtual asset VC. Henzie is legal counsel to Crypto Oasis (one of the largest Web3.0 communities in the UAE) and many of its members. 

The local legal partner for DigiShares (one of the world’s largest platforms for the tokenization of RWAs), Henzie and DigiShares have hosted many events in the UAE around this topic and continue to host online masterclasses, routinely from time to time. Henzie mentors members of the Brinc community, has hosted a workshop with a UCLA Professor in Blockchain with the DIFC, spoken at Future Blockchain Summit/Gitex about Web3.0/virtual assets in the UAE, is part of the Hub71 network for their virtual asset inductees, used to mentor the startups of Plug&Play, used to be actively involved with the startups of Astrolabs, has written numerous articles published in

The Oath around Blockchain/Web3.0 and continues to be very active in the Web3.0/Blockchain community. Recently having won the award for Pioneer in Digitalization, during the Impact Leadership Awards (2024), Legal Excellence Award during the Global Legal Summit (2024) and Startup and Investment Firm of the Year, UAE from the Global Legal Association (2024), Henzie and TCS have been recognized in the community for their contribution. 

As a trusted legal advisor and mentor, Henzie is committed to empowering the next generation of fintech pioneers, sharing their wealth of knowledge and expertise to inspire others to turn their bold ideas into reality. With a proven track record of success and a genuine passion for driving positive change through technology, Henzie continues to be a driving force in the fintech ecosystem, shaping the future of finance one startup at a time.