- Kuwait: Tax Changes on the Way
- UAE: Central Bank Issues Retail Payment Services & Card Regulations
- Clyde & Co advises Kamco Invest on the sale of majority stake in Planet Pharmacies
- LegalTech start-up launches in Dubai
- Allen & Overy advises Mubadala and Yahsat
- Simmons & Simmons appoints new Middle East head
- This Week’s Movers & Shakers (July 15, 2021)
Top Stories
IP strategies for start-upsWhen launching a start-up, investing in intellectual property assets is often an afterthought. However, this can cause setbacks to a start-up’s growth and expansion if not secured early on. Madiha Sheikh of The Legal Group Advocates &...
Top Stories
Game on!Gowling WLG’s expert insight into the legal framework and the investment opportunities of the UAE’s e-gaming industry. The e-gaming ecosystem has expanded at an unprecedented rate in recent years, with e-gaming now considered as the most profitable...
Top Stories
Increased scrutinyAn insight into Business Interruption Insurance claims as a result of COVID-19 by Rebecca Copley and Shibani Kapur of Eversheds Sutherland. Business interruption insurance has for many years been a popular product designed to provide cover for...
Top Stories
New laws, agile teamsThe legal and regulatory landscape is constantly evolving, meaning businesses have to remain agile in order to continue to progress. The past 12 months have been a true testament to the importance of adapting to unprecedented situations...
Top Stories
Sustaining the Green Energy RevolutionAs greenfield renewable energy developments accelerate in size and volumes, while potential investors begin to rumble about sky high prices in the renewables secondary market, questions are being asked whether a bubble is forming, writes Bracewell. We...
Middle East & International News
ADG Legal, a Dubai based bespoke law firm has signed an agreement with Evolvin’ Women, a social enterprise dedicated to the empowerment of...
Jameson Legal Tech is the world’s second legal-tech marketing consortium (and the first outside the US) that connects in-house legal teams and private...
The DIFC has announced new Intellectual Property Regulations (IP Regulations) which came into effect from July...
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts has acquired the qualified electronic seal solution Ethaq, a paperless initiative that enables digital authenticity of documents with the support...
HFW has been appointed to the DIFC Courts Users’ Committee – an independent liaison body between the Courts and users that is tasked with...
Akin Gump, AmCham Dubai and The Oath Magazine are delighted to have hosted a webinar on...
Features
The economic impact of COVID-19 has brought into sharp focus the risk of supplier insolvency in the construction and infrastructure...
Increased scrutinyAn insight into Business Interruption Insurance claims as a result of COVID-19 by Rebecca Copley and Shibani Kapur of Eversheds...
Opinions
When launching a start-up, investing in intellectual property assets is often an afterthought. However, this can cause setbacks to a...
Game on!Gowling WLG’s expert insight into the legal framework and the investment opportunities of the UAE’s e-gaming industry. The e-gaming ecosystem...
Legal Deals
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has advised Binghatti Beverage Manufacturing (part of the Binghatti group of companies), on the sale...
Dentons advises Ahli United Bank K.S.C.P. on their USD600 million Tier 1 sukuk issuanceDentons has advised Kuwait’s Ahli United Bank K.S.C.P. (AUBK) on the successful issuance of USD600 million Tier 1 capital certificates,...
Interviews
In-House Insights
Joanne Fischlin, head of corporate, external and legal affairs, Microsoft talks to the...
Private Eye
Guido Labriola of Global Advocacy and Legal Consultants talks about trends...
Movers & Shakers
Accuracy is pleased to announce the addition of two senior advisors, Wendy Robinson and Paul Wright, to the firm’s Dubai office to further strengthen its Forensic Technology and Cybercrime offerings in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Both bring significant local experience and international recognition. After a successful career in...
Movers & Shakers
Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla has recently hired Osama Audi and Adnan Doha from King & Spalding, and Abeer Jarrar from Linklaters, as corporate partners to join the firm’s UAE offices in August 2021. Osama Audi and Adnan Doha specialise in private equity, M&A, joint ventures, venture capital, complex corporate...
Movers & Shakers
Shane Jury, a senior disputes lawyer based in Dubai, has joined Addleshaw Goddard as a partner in the firm’s Dubai office. Jury will be leading AG’s Dubai-based commercial disputes team. Jury joins from Gibson Dunn, where he had a substantial practice as a litigator in the DIFC and ADGM Courts...
Middle East Events
August 2021
Webinar: Arbitration in the Middle East - Enforcement and Challenges to Arbitral Awards
23 August 2021
An overview of the mechanisms available for recognition, enforcement, and challenges to arbitral awards in the Middle Eastern jurisdictions of the UAE, KSA and Egypt, in a comparative analysis format.
11am - 12pm
