Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers

Dechert takes Chadbourne 11

  US-headquartered Dechert has launched a new office in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with an 11-strong team – which has all come from rival firm Chadbourne.    Energy and natural resources lawyer Kenneth Mack, formerly managing partner of Chadbourne’s...

Krämer legal counsel for Emirates Solar Industry Association

DR. Michael Krämer, Senior Associate and Energy Specialist at Taylor Wessing (Middle East), has been appointed legal counsel to Emirates Solar Industry Association’s (ESIA) first board.    The legal counsel’s primary aim will be to develop...

New partners at Habib Al Mulla & Company

Boustany joined the company in 2007 as head of the banking and finance practice in Dubai. He advises on all areas of UAE banking and finance law, including Islamic Finance, across a variety of sectors. He...

Private Equity, Finance Lawyer joins Baker Botts

Rishkofski’s experience includes working with Russian and Eastern European privatization policies, policy advice and drafting laws for the new Russian economy, development of Russian corporate securities and regulatory structures. She also worked on regulatory and legislative...

White & Case partner set to join Morgan Stanley

Glengarry joined White & Case in 2003 and was promoted to partner in 2009. He focuses his practice on financial restructuring and insolvency and was one of the lawyers who advised on Greece’s £110bn bailout. Alongside...

A regal quintet for King & Spalding

KING & Spalding is rapidly boosting its presence in the Middle East with the addition of five lawyers to its offices in Dubai, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. They are counsel Mazhar Khan and associate Hassan Al...

Daniel Liew joins SNR Denton’s ETI team in Asia

  DANIEL Liew has become a corporate and project finance partner in SNR Denton’s Energy, Transport and Infrastructure team in Asia, resident in Hong Kong. Liew was most recently the Asia Managing Partner of SJ Berwin....

Majid joins clyde corporate

JASON Majid has left Simmons & Simmons in Qatar to join Clyde and Co in Doha, as a partner* in its Middle East Corporate group. A Canadian-qualified corporate lawyer with nine years experience in the Middle...

Martyr blooms at Norton Rose

  NORTON Rose Group recently confirmed to The Oath that Peter Martyr will continue as Group Chief Executive from January 1, 2012, the same day that leading Canadian law firm Macleod Dixon joins the Group. The...

DLA PIPER finds an Angel

DLA Piper has appointed Tony Angel as global co-chairman and senior partner of the International LLP. Tony will serve alongside global chairman Francis B. Burch, Jr., and work closely with CEOs Sir Nigel Knowles and Lee...

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