Al-Harith has a decade of experience in corporate governance issues affecting financial institutions, and has specialised in the regulation of financial institutions for the last decade. Much of this experience was gained at UK law firm Clifford Chance, where Al-Harith worked for more than four years in the financial regulatory department and at US law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton where he headed up the UK financial regulatory function globally for more than two years.

Al-Harith joined DLA Piper's Dubai office in November 2006 from UK law firm Pinsent Masons' London office where he was the partner heading the financial regulatory group. As a specialist in the whole spectrum of financial regulation, Al-Harith has advised leading blue-chip banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions on matters including new authorisations, new products, regulatory capital structuring, general compliance and liaising with regulators and local counsel around the world.

Al-Harith's practice includes advising financial institutions on corporate governance and financial regulatory issues in relation to operations across the Middle East. Al-Harith has advised blue chip organisations including Citigroup, Credit Suisse, UBS, AVIVA, Inter-Hannover, Prudential, Bank of America, Barclays, Calyon, Deutsche Bank, Euronext, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, SWIFT and others on a broad range of regulatory matters.