Third term lucky for Parish
Norton Rose Fulbright has re-elected current chair Stephen Parish for a third term in office starting on 1 May 2015. Parish, who has headed Norton Rose Fulbright since his election in 2009, plans to develop and...
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Movers & Shakers
Promotions galore at Zu’bi & Partners
Zu’bi & Partners Attorneys & Legal Consultants has promoted five senior lawyers as part of the firm’s strategic growth program. (Eman Omar; Naveen Thakur; Dr. Mohamed Salama; Imar Manassaki; Hamza Saleem) Eman Omar has been promoted...
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...
