Lucas joins from Baker Botts where he was a partner in the International Dispute Resolution practice. He has over 10 years’ experience advising clients on commercial disputes in the telecommunications, banking, energy and aviation sectors. More >>

Dechert LLP has strengthened its private equity, corporate and investment funds capabilities with the hire of Philip Dowsett as a partner in the firm’s Dubai office. Dowsett joins the firm from the Abu Dhabi Office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. More >>

Global law firm Clyde & Co has today announced the appointment of Matthew Shanahan as Partner in its global Regulatory & Investigations practice. Matthew will be based in Dubai and will head up the practice across the Middle East. More >>

Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Rizwan H. Kanji has joined the firm as a partner in its Dubai office. He comes to Akin Gump from King & Spalding in Dubai, where he served as the lead of that firm’s global capital markets working group and as one of the deputy heads of its financial services industry focus group. More >>

We are pleased to announce that international arbitration specialist Celine Abi Habib Kanakri has joined our Dubai office as a partner. Joining from Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla, Celine’s practice is focused on complex UAE and international arbitration across a range of industry sectors. More >>

Global law firm Clyde & Co has today announced the appointment of Peter Greatrex as a Partner in its Real Estate & Hospitality practice. Based in Dubai, Peter will be responsible for further developing the firm’s wider Middle East offering, with a particular focus on Saudi Arabia and Oman. Peter is a real estate expert with over 10 years’ experience in the Middle East. He has spent over 12 years with Trowers & Hamlins, progressing to the role of partner. Peter relocated to Bahrain in 2008 and has been in Dubai since 2017 to lead the UAE and Oman real estate offering. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Leroy Levy as a partner in its Public & Infrastructure Finance Practice and as head of project development, MENA, in Dubai. Mr. Levy joins the firm from the Dubai office of King & Spalding, where he was a partner in its project finance practice for eight years. More >>

Global law firm Clyde & Co has today announced the appointment of Taimur Malik as a partner in its Middle East corporate practice. Taimur will be based mainly in the firm’s Dubai office and support clients across the region and in Pakistan. Taimur joins from US law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle where he was a partner in the Dubai and Muscat offices.  More >>

Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that it will be joined in Dubai and Abu Dhabi by three market-leading partners: Sachin Kerur, Michelle Nelson and Shourav Lahiri. The announcement marks a strategic push in the Middle East to enhance Reed Smith’s global offering in the construction and projects sectors, while boosting the firm’s international arbitration capabilities in the region and creating an oil and gas disputes hub in Abu Dhabi. More >>

Dechert LLP has strengthened its Middle East offering with the hires of real estate partner Stephen Kelly and national partner Sarah Mahood. More >>