“NEW rules for inspection are being prepared and it will be announced soon. Once the new rules are enforced, the names of erring companies will be disclosed” Mohammad Ali Al Meer, assistant director of the...
PATTON Boggs LLP has announced that Brian J. Pierce has joined the firm’s Corporate Finance practice group as a partner. Pierce, who will work throughout Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, joins Patton Boggs from...
LEGAL and trade relations between Dubai and the UK will be strengthened through a ‘Memorandum of Guidance’ (MoG) signed in London on 23 January between the Dubai’s International Centre (DIFC) Courts, the leading English language...
THE Corporate Counsel Middle East Group (CCME), the largest group for in house legal counsel in the Middle East, has announced that the second Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards 2013 will take place in Dubai on...
A new law passed by the Cabinet has curtailed the powers of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said Sheikh Abdullatif Al-Asheikh, head of the commission (Haia), according to new...
India is a major focal point of our strategy and Dubai since long has been a preferred destination for Indian investors DUBAI FDI, the foreign investment office in the department of economic development (DED) in...
ACCORDING to Reuter’s report, Dubai, seeking to attract more investment, may let citizens from five other Gulf Arab countries establish businesses along with foreign partners but without having to include domestic investors, the government said. The...
Warren Gorrell, left, and David Harris, right, Co-CEOs of the Hogan Lovells law firm HOGAN Lovells has announced the promotion of 24 new partners, taking the number of partners to more than 800 in offices...
TAYLOR Wessing (Middle East) has announced the appointment of Tahir Ahmed as a new partner in its Corporate Finance Group. Tahir’s appointment brings the total number of partners in the Dubai office to six and follows...
DLA Piper has welcomed the long-awaited Companies Law for Kuwait, which was recently published in the Official Gazette (Kuwait Al-Yom). The new law introduces a raft of new concepts and principals set to shape the...
