Chief Justices Michael Hwang and Sundaresh Menon Trade ties between Dubai and Singapore, two of the world’s leading business hubs, have been strengthened following the signing of a Memorandum of Guidance by the DIFC Courts and...
Ince & Co organised their first shipping brief for the year 2015 on January 14th. The Briefing comprised of four short presentations on the current legal issues affecting the shipping market. Stephen Jarvis, partner, talked about the...
Last month, General Court of the European Union delivered its Judgment in respect of Bank Tejarat’s application to annul the restrictive measures imposed against the Bank by the EU, as part of the EU’s programme of...
Meysan Partners, a law firm specialising in Bank Finance & Restructuring, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Development & Finance, and Dispute Resolution, announced the launch of its first office in the Gulf region located in...
Kain Knight has appointed Nadia Blinova as general manager of its costs and debt management subsidiary company SettleFirst Consulting JLT, based in Dubai. SettleFirst specialises in advising insurance companies, banks and other institutions on debt recovery...
Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori has been appointed as director general of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Al Mansoori has served as the director general of UAE Smart Government since April 2014 and was deputy director general of...
Members of the Federal National Council passed a draft law that will crack down on environmental offences and regulate radiation and level of radioactive elements in air, water, food and soil. The bill will also set...
According to a Gulf News report, Citibank has been accused of self-dealing, defrauding investors, and attempting to initiate a global cover-up of investor losses. The bank was sued by investor Dr. Sami Abbas Hussein Ali before the...
The Irish government has taken the unusual step of filing a supporting legal brief to the Microsoft case as the giant IT company battles an order to hand over private emails stored on an Irish server....
In Australia, a lawyer who who forged academic achievements, records and employment experience and used them to gain a summer placement at Minter Ellison, has been barred from practising until 2022. Luke Grosser was found guilty...
