- This week’s Movers & Shakers (Oct 28, 2020)
- Legal Deals of the week (Oct 28, 2020)
- Baker McKenzie launches AI collaboration with SparkBeyond
- Legal deals of the week (Oct 22, 2020)
- New IP law firm in the Middle East
- DIFC Courts launches new Arbitration Working Group
- Law firm highlights (Sep 24, 2020)
Top Stories
Restructuring? Rescue the Data!If you are closing down, acquiring, merging or reorganising a business, stop for a minute and consider one more thing: what data are you going to lose during the process and what will that cost you in...
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A secure digital judiciaryAbdulla Galadari, senior partner of Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants provides insight on the future of court hearings in Dubai – post COVID-19. Dubai Courts decided to resume its hearings remotely in the three litigation degrees, the...
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Rethinking the leaseCMS analyses the impact of COVID-19 on commercial lease arrangements in the UAE, emphasising on the scope of payment obligations, force majeure provisions and rent relief negotiations. COVID-19 has disrupted the global economy and affected various sectors...
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The New DIFC Data Protection LawAn overview of the key features, new requirements and data privacy obligations of the new law by James Abbott, Arun Visweswaran and James Dadford of Clifford Chance. On June 1, 2020, the Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC“)...
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Options, procedures & considerationsAn insight into the conditions for recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Israel by Haggai Carmon of Carmon & Carmon. As a basic rule in international law, a judgment rendered in one country is not recognised,...
Middle East & International News
Norton Rose Fulbright announced that Gerry Pecht has assumed the role of Global Chief Executive of Norton Rose Fulbright, effective October 1, 2020....
ArbitralWomen and the Abu Dhabi Global Market Arbitration Centre (ADGMAC) are pleased to announce that they have agreed to partner with the shared goal of raising...
A new law firm, Deans IP, has launched in the Middle East. Conceived pre-COVID-19 and born into a different world, Deans IP is...
The taskforce will be mandated to reinforce and share industry developments and best-practices, encompassing an advisory...
Keystone Law announced last month that it has finalised the arrangements for its first office in the Middle East. The establishment of Keystone Law Middle...
CMS has announced the opening of an office in Abu Dhabi and the extension of its Dubai office lease in Burj Daman Tower,...
Features
If you are closing down, acquiring, merging or reorganising a business, stop for a minute and consider one more thing:...
Oman’s PPP LawThomas Wigley of Trowers & Hamlins takes a closer look at the impact of the recent regulatory developments on public...
Opinions
Abdulla Galadari, senior partner of Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants provides insight on the future of court hearings in Dubai...
A more resilient market?Can Bahrain’s off-plan developments weather the storm of the current outbreak? Simon Green and Reem Al Mahroos consider key concepts...
Legal Deals
PwC announced that it has completed an asset purchase agreement to acquire Tyconz’s Enterprise Business Applications Operations. Tyconz is a...
CC advises TDB on securing MIGA-backed financing to support its trade finance businessClifford Chance has advised the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) in securing financing of EUR334 million...
Interviews
In-House Insights
From working on a complex aircraft financing transaction to learning how to code,...
Private Eye
Guido Labriola of Global Advocacy and Legal Consultants talks about trends...
Movers & Shakers
Addleshaw Goddard has made a further lateral hire into its international Infrastructure, Projects and Energy practice (IPE) announcing the appointment of Paul Jones from Dubai’s Dragon Oil. Jones, who is returning to London from Dubai, has extensive experience across the full energy-value chain, with a particular emphasis on advising clients...
Movers & Shakers
Beale & Co have recently secured the hire of experienced construction lawyer, Lyndon Richards, who joins the firm’s Dubai office in September 2020. Former MEA chief legal officer at AECOM, Richards has almost 30 years’ experience in the law, specialising in construction and insurance related matters, and has been practising...
Movers & Shakers
Baker Botts has announced that Haitham Hawashin has joined the firm’s Corporate Department as a partner based in the Dubai office. Hawashin has extensive international and regional experience in public and private M&A, capital markets, private equity, and complex cross-border transactions across many sectors, including energy and technology. “Haitham is...
