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Energy transition & renewables in MENA

Sabrina Aïnouz of Squire Patton Boggs and Luka Kristovic-Blazevic of Baker McKenzie examine the key drivers, risk areas and future prospects for the dispute resolution landscape of renewable projects in region. Recent years have seen significant...

Managing climate-related financial risks

Christopher Shelton of Eversheds Sutherland takes a closer look at the UAE SFWG’s new set of draft principles that aim to set a minimum standard for governance and management of climate-related risks for the financial services...

The dispute risks of Giga Projects

Can the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 Giga Projects afford not to take a collaborative approach? John McKevitt of HKA offers insight into the potential risks and issues that lie ahead for Saudi Arabia’s construction market. The sheer...

BVI company takeover

Nicholas Davies and Reghard Smith of Walkers offer insight into structuring options that are available to investors seeking to acquire a BVI target company. The venture capital investment ecosystem in the MENA region continues to flourish...

Ready for take-off?

Simon Spells, Manoj Purush and Julia Norsetter of Reed Smith shine a light on the eVOTL investment opportunities taking into account advances in the Middle East and Southeast Asia regions. As we look towards 2023, aviation...

Reviving old solutions for new problems

Joseph Chedrawe and Patrick O’Grady analyse supply chain dispute risk in the Middle East and how the region may already have tools from its rich history to deal with risks. As a region that boasts a...

FATF: One year on…

In March 2022, the UAE was placed on the ‘Grey List’ of countries under increased monitoring by Financial Action Task Force. Karl Masi of Charles Russell Speechlys sheds light on the actions taken by the UAE’s...

KSA’s Tourism Law

Alain Sfeir and Atif Mulla of Clyde & Co elaborate on Saudi Arabia’s recently-amended Tourism Law and on the new regulations that were introduced to boost tourism in the Kingdom. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)...

Towards good governance

In 2022, the Kingdom of Bahrain introduced amendments to its Corporate Governance Code. Brian Howard and Matthew McDonald of Trowers and Hamlins explore the changes and how it supplements the Commercial Companies Law. Introduced by effect...

Will ChatGPT transform healthcare?

With all the buzz surrounding the AI bot and how it’s disrupting industries, Pinsent Masons takes a look at how ChatGPT might be applied in life sciences and medtech. ChatGPT – which has already wowed users...

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