Corporate funding options multiplied
Allen & Overy reported that while the total value of finance, across loans, bonds and equity, provided to business globally has hit a record level, exceeding USD6 trillion for the first time in 2014, this is...
- New Lex Mundi GC Summit Report highlights harnessing the potential of GenAI
- Pinsent Masons launches Vario in the Middle East
- Clyde & Co strengthens its presence in the KSA, in line with RHQ Programme
- Launch of new law firm in the UAE by former General Counsel of Aster DM Healthcare
- Meysan Partners launches in London
- Squire Patton Boggs appoints Middle East practice co-chairs
- PwC Legal continues to strengthen Middle East service offering
Middle East & International News
Brown Rudnck collaborates with two UAE law firms
Brown Rudnick LLP, an international law firm, has signed collaboration agreements with two UAE law firms, Hikmat Fayad & Associates and Walid Nasser & Associates. Brown Rudnick will partner with both firms on transactions and disputesled...
UAE to comply with Int’l Humanitarian Law
UAE is considering introducing wide-ranging reforms to fully comply with the International Humanitarian Law, according to local dailies.“These reforms include issuing legislations, revising laws in force and introducing the International Humanitarian Law in military training and...
DIAC’s new chairman
Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla annoucned that the firm's Chairman, Dr. Habib Al Mulla, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees (the Board) of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) by decree of...
News from the Courts – February 2015
Chief Justices Michael Hwang and Sundaresh Menon Trade ties between Dubai and Singapore, two of the world’s leading business hubs, have been strengthened following the signing of a Memorandum of Guidance by the DIFC Courts and...
Law firm highlights – February 2015
Ince & Co organised their first shipping brief for the year 2015 on January 14th. The Briefing comprised of four short presentations on the current legal issues affecting the shipping market. Stephen Jarvis, partner, talked about the...
EU Court srikes down sanctions against Bank Tejarat of Iran
Last month, General Court of the European Union delivered its Judgment in respect of Bank Tejarat’s application to annul the restrictive measures imposed against the Bank by the EU, as part of the EU’s programme of...
Meysan Partners launches first Middle East office
Meysan Partners, a law firm specialising in Bank Finance & Restructuring, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Development & Finance, and Dispute Resolution, announced the launch of its first office in the Gulf region located in...
Kain Knight appoints GM for SettleFirst
Kain Knight has appointed Nadia Blinova as general manager of its costs and debt management subsidiary company SettleFirst Consulting JLT, based in Dubai. SettleFirst specialises in advising insurance companies, banks and other institutions on debt recovery...
Mansoori appointed director general of TRA
Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori has been appointed as director general of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Al Mansoori has served as the director general of UAE Smart Government since April 2014 and was deputy director general of...
