Middle East & International News

Middle East & International News

Law Firm Highlights – May 2016

1) Dentons and 4see hosted the second briefing in Environmental Health and Safety series. Experts from across the construction industry gathered at Dentons Abu Dhabi office last month to consider health and safety matters in the...

Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre established

His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, in his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, issued a decree setting up the Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre (EMAC) to settle...

Abu Dhabi Judicial Department and ADGM Courts sign MoU

The institutions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a framework to enable facilitation of the judicial cooperation procedures by both parties. Abu Dhabi Judicial Department and Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM Courts) have...

Ince & Co launches consultancy firm

Ince & Co launched Ince Consultancy LLP, an independent international consultancy firm, which is associated with the law firm’s international network. Ince Consultancy LLP offers a range of services to the shipping, energy, insurance, aviation, trade...

Law firms relocate to new premises

DLA Piper and Hussain Lootah & Associates have new office addresses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai respectively. DLA Piper has relocated its Abu Dhabi office, taking up premises in the Emirates Institute of Banking & Financial...

Primed for Growth

AMJ partnered with IFN on the inaugural Oman Seminar and Dialogue 2016 to discuss the future of Islamic Finance in Oman and its role in diversifying the economy of the country. Al Busaidy Mansoor Jamal &...

News from the DIFC

   The Academy of Law for the DIFC has joined forces with the University of Sharjah to help young lawyers in the UAE achieve success in the in the English-language, commercial common law system. The two...

Navigating Change

  Dentons partner Kara Baysinger; Sophie Moloney, general counsel and company secretary at OSN; Kiran Scarr, general counsel with Dubai Multi Commodities Centre; Yvonne Hilst, senior compliance counsel with Mubadala Development Company; and  Antony Cook, associate general counsel for Legal and Corporate Affairs in...

Iran: More opportunities ahead

An agreement has been reached between the International Group of P&I Clubs and the US authorities which will allow the shipping and trading industries to obtain more adequate insurance cover for Iranian related trades, and engage...

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