New partners at Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright announced that 49 of its lawyers received promotions to partner in locations around the world and director in South Africa, effective January 1, 2024.
The promotions span 22 of the firm’s 54 offices and include practitioners from 10 global practice areas: litigation and disputes (16 lawyers); corporate, M&A and securities (12); banking and finance (5); intellectual property (4); employment and labor (3); environmental (2); real estate (2); restructuring and insolvency (2); tax (2) and projects (1). For the fifth straight year, women account for more than 40 percent of the firm’s partner promotions (20 of 49).
Of these, two lawyers are being promoted to partner within the firm’s Dubai office: Jonathan Burton and Aarti Thadani.
Thadani is a specialist construction and infrastructure dispute resolution lawyer, who has been permanently based in the United Arab Emirates for over eight years. She represents clients in all forms of dispute resolution – litigation, arbitration, expert determination, mediation and risk mitigation. Aarti regularly advises regional sovereign wealth funds, master developers, contractors, subcontractors, engineers and owners on complex construction and real estate projects in the Middle East. She has substantive experience advising on MEP related contentious issues and final account disputes. Thadani is recognised by leading law directories as an industry expert in the construction, infrastructure and real estate space in the Middle East and frequently speaks at major industry events. In 2021, she was seconded to one of the region’s largest sovereign wealth funds, where she headed up legal for their UAE real estate/construction business unit.
Burton is a corporate/commercial lawyer, who has worked in the region for more than ten years, advising on cross-border mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures (in a variety of sectors including technology, energy, hospitality, retail, food and beverage, defence and security, and manufacturing), private equity transactions and foreign direct investment. He has acted for multinationals, government agencies, SMEs and ultra-high net worth individuals (including notable Dubai and Middle Eastern based family offices). Before qualifying as a lawyer, Burton served in the British Military and brings experience which complements his technology, defence, and security practice.
