Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers

Lambert joins Al Tamimi & Company

Al Tamimi & Company has confirmed the appointment of Scott Lambert as regional head of Construction and Infrastructure. Lambert will be responsible for building on the firm’s thriving Construction and Infrastructure practice and offering expert advice...

Pinsent Masons launched ME Tax Practice

Pinsent Masons has announced the launch of a Tax practice in Doha to capitalise on work arising from Qatar and the UAE's decision to join an OECD initiative relating to transparency of tax affairs. Ian Anderson...

TLA expands with new restructuring partner

Tribonian Law Advisors (TLA) has enhanced its restructuring practice with the addition of partner Roupen Avsharianto the firm’s team. Avsharian’s practice focuses on multi-jurisdictional restructurings, corporate re-organisations and providing general counsel services to regulated and unregulated...

Hadef’s new partners

    Hadef & Partners announced two partner appointments in its Dubai office.  Tim Watkins (Corporate) and Melissa Quai Currie (Dispute Resolution) have been promoted, effective from January 1, 2015. Watkins has an extensive range of...

Afridi & Angell’s new partner

Afridi & Angell announced that James Bowden has been promoted to partner.  Based in the Dubai office, Bowden advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial, mergers and acquisitions, compliance and regulatory, technology outsourcing and...

Rebecca Kelly joins Morgan Lewis

Morgan Lewis has enhanced its dispute resolution and regulatory services out of its Dubai office with the addition of partner Rebecca Kelly, an accomplished lawyer with nearly a decade of experience handling dispute resolution and regulatory...

Associated Baker & McKenzie office opens in Jeddah

Legal Advisors, Abdulaziz I. Al-Ajlan & Partners in Association with Baker & McKenzie Ltd is opening an office in Jeddah, one of Saudi Arabia's primary commercial centres. Julie Alexander, one of the region's leading finance lawyers,...

Chadbourne expands corporate team in Dubai

Chadbourne & Parke announced that senior corporate lawyer Haykel Hajjaji has joined the firm’s Dubai office. Hajjaji joins the firm from private equity firm Global Emerging Markets Group, where he acted as managing director and focused...

Squire Patton Boggs announces affiliation in KSA

Khalid Al- Thebity with Edward Newberry Squire Patton Boggs has announced its affiliation with The Khalid Al-Thebity Law Firm in Saudi Arabia.  The affiliation formalizes one of the legal industry’s leading Middle East practices, with offices in...

Dr. Hadef honoured

Dr. Hadef Al Dhaheri, founding partner of Hadef & Partners was recently honoured with a Certificate of Appreciation awarded by the Prime Minister of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, for his dedicated service...

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