- Legal Deals of the Week (Feb 25, 2021)
- Law firms Saleh Alobeidli & Co and ICLO merge
- New judges appointed to the DIFC Courts
- This week’s Movers & Shakers (Jan 28, 2021)
- Addleshaw Goddard advises on IPO of QLM Life and Medical Insurance Company
- Herbert Smith Freehills advises KSA on its new mineral law regime
- DLA Piper advises Zip Co on its investment in Spotii
Top Stories
On high alert…Norton Rose Fulbright highlights cyber and privacy trends in the Middle East, with an insight on the increasing threat of ransomware in the region. 2020 was a year of rapid business transformation across the world. Companies, across...
Top Stories
Performance, discipline & COVID-19Amongst the myriad of practical difficulties faced by employers as a result of the pandemic, managing performance and disciplinary matters remotely is a particular challenge. Kiersten Lucas and Laura Anderson share insight on how employers can effectively...
Top Stories
Luxury set to gainMarco De Leo and Riccardo Denaro of BonelliErede on how the FDI revamp brings new opportunities for luxury retail in the UAE. Despite the COVID-19-induced global economic downturn, there is good news for foreign companies with an...
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Securing assets in the UAENayiri Boghossian of Al Owais Advocates & Legal Consultants offers practical insight on obtaining an attachment order on the basis of a non-final judgment. Attaching a Debtor’s Assets A favourable judgment is worth nothing when a debtor...
Top Stories
Another year of growth and progress…Whilst 2020 was a year of unprecedent events – mostly for all the wrong reasons – the continued growth of arbitration and associated forms of dispute resolution in the Middle East has been a welcome and positive...
Middle East & International News
In 2021, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts and the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) will embark on a new Courts of the...
Abu Dhabi Global Market has announced that it has enacted the Data Protection Regulations 2021, which...
Lex Mundi has launched a new report on the key trends for global mergers & acquisitions (M&A). The...
Saleh Alobeidli & Co and International Consultant Law Office (ICLO), two law firms based in the...
Four new judges at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts have been sworn in before His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al...
ADGM that it has published a public consultation paper on its proposed new Data Protection Regulations, which will substitute the Data Protection Regulations...
Features
Norton Rose Fulbright highlights cyber and privacy trends in the Middle East, with an insight on the increasing threat of...
Performance, discipline & COVID-19Amongst the myriad of practical difficulties faced by employers as a result of the pandemic, managing performance and disciplinary matters...
Opinions
Althea Rozario of The Legal Group talks about the survival of Intellectual Property Rights during the pandemic – the impact,...
The expert accountantClare Lavin of Grant Thornton UAE talks about the integral role of the expert accountant in disputes and on why...
Legal Deals
Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised Yellow Door Energy Limited (Yellow Door Energy) on a USD31.2 million financing deal. The funding...
Clyde & Co and StormHarbour act as advisors for SHUAA-led consortium to buy out Stanford Marine GroupClyde & Co and StormHarbour Securities LLP, a global investment banking boutique, announced that they acted as sole legal advisors...
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
HFW expanded its global litigation practice with the hire of partner Nick Braganza. Braganza joined HFW’s Dubai office on January 4, 2021 from Clyde & Co and will sit in the firm’s fraud and insolvency group. His arrival follows that of insolvency litigation specialist Simon Jerrum, who joined HFW in London...
Movers & Shakers
Dentons has announced the joining of Shiraz Sethi in the firm’s Dubai office. Bolstering our employment capabilities across the Middle East, Shiraz will assume the role of Regional Head of Employment, bringing a wealth of experience to the position. With more than 10 years of expertise in the Middle East, Sethi is...
Movers & Shakers
Clyde & Co has has appointed Neal Ysart as Lead Regulatory & Investigations Advisor to launch a new consultancy service within its Regulatory & Investigations practice in the Middle East. Ysart will be based in the firm’s Dubai office. Ysart has more than 35 years of investigative experience with over...
