Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers

Eversheds announces 2014 promotions

   (L to R) Clint Dempsey, Farah Nabulsi, Nick Pinder    (L-R) Nick Sharatt, Samer Sarkis, Shalagh Saleh Eversheds announced the promotion of 21 lawyers from around its international operations to the firm’s partnership, as part...

Baker & McKenzie hires new partner

Baker & McKenzie has further enhanced its top tier offering in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Bahrain with the hire of leading banking and finance lawyer Basel Barakat as a partner. Basel...

Bird & Bird boosts ME presence

Bird & Bird announced the appointment of Kelly Tymburski as a partner in its Middle East practice.  She joined the firm on April 6, 2014 and operates from Bird & Bird’s UAE offices.  Tymburski is a...

Partner promotions for firm

Norton Rose Fulbright announced a total of 46 global partner promotions since entering the US market in June 2013.  In the Middle East, Vandana Rupani of Fulbright & Jaworkski LLP, a member of Norton Rose Fulbright...

Iremonger takes on new role

DLA Piper announced that 45 lawyers have been promoted to its partnership, including James Iremonger of the restructuring practice in the Middle East.  The promotions were effective from January 1, 2014 in the United States and...

Clyde & Co’s new partners

Clyde & Co announced the promotion of nine lawyers to the partnership and twelve equity partners to senior equity partner across its international network. Promotions were effective from May 1, 2014. In the Middle East region,...

Charles Russell expands

Wesam Al Shafei has joined the Charles Russell's Bahrain Office as a legal consultant and specialises in Banking and Islamic Finance. Her principal areas of experience include banking, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, regulatory compliance and...

Steyn joins Bracewell & Giuliani

Clint Steyn has joined Bracewell & Giuliani LLP’s Dubai office as a partner, focusing his practice on international energy projects. Steyn has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on all aspects of power transactions...

New partner for Norton Rose Fulbright

Norton Rose Fulbright strengthened their Middle East debt capital markets practice with the arrival of partner Gregory Man. Man joins from Clifford Chance in Hong Kong where he was a senior debt capital markets lawyer. Prior...

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