Squire Patton Boggs has appointed banking, Islamic finance and financial services regulatory expert Ahmed Butt as a partner in its Financial Services Practice based in its Riyadh office. Ahmed joins from Simmons & Simmons, where he established that...
Kennedys has announced that partners Victoria Clucas and Bill Evans have moved from London to Dubai as part of the firm’s plans to strengthen its capabilities across the Gulf and Middle East region. Evans and Clucas...
Norton Rose Fulbright announced that it has strengthened its projects and energy practice in Istanbul with the addition of project finance partner Utku Ünver. He will be part of the firm’s associated Turkish law practice, which...
Morgan Lewis has welcomed Richard Knott as a partner resident in Abu Dhabi. Knott joins from one of Abu Dhabi’s leading sovereign wealth funds, where he spent the last four years as a senior legal counsel....
Addleshaw Goddard has made a further lateral hire into its international Infrastructure, Projects and Energy practice (IPE) announcing the appointment of Paul Jones from Dubai’s Dragon Oil. Jones, who is returning to London from Dubai, has...
Beale & Co have recently secured the hire of experienced construction lawyer, Lyndon Richards, who joins the firm’s Dubai office in September 2020. Former MEA chief legal officer at AECOM, Richards has almost 30 years’ experience...
Baker Botts has announced that Haitham Hawashin has joined the firm’s Corporate Department as a partner based in the Dubai office. Hawashin has extensive international and regional experience in public and private M&A, capital markets, private...
Dentons continues to expand its corporate practice in Saudi Arabia with the hire of senior associate Arwa Alfawzan and associate Shaima Bakhsh, both joining the Firm from the associate office of Allen & Overy in Riyadh....
Trowers & Hamlins have made recent changes to its Bahrain team with the addition of a new paralegal through a competitive selection process. Noora Khan began her contract with the firm at the beginning of September...
Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed Zayd Alathari, an intellectual property lawyer with experience in the Middle East and the US, has joined its Riyadh office as a partner. Alathari joins the Mohammed Al-Ghamdi Law Firm in...
