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 >>

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added arbitration and dispute resolution partner Jonathan Sutcliffe to its Dubai office. He has been based in Dubai for over eight years and joins K&L Gates from Baker Botts LLP. More >>

International law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed leading infrastructure and energy specialists, Tim Armsby and Gurmeet Kaur, to its finance & projects practice in the Middle East. Both join from Eversheds Sutherland, where Tim was a partner in Abu Dhabi and head of Energy & Infrastructure for the Middle East. More >>

Lee Irvine was previously counsel at Latham & Watkins and has extensive experience in advising sovereigns, quasi-sovereigns, financial institutions and public and private companies on all aspects of conventional and Islamic debt capital markets, equity capital markets and liability management. Lee has been in the Gulf for over ten years and his clients include sovereigns, quasi-sovereigns, financial institutions and public and private companies. Lee has been ranked as an expert by Chambers Global 2018 for capital markets. More >>

Dentons has bolstered its UAE Corporate practice with the hire of partner Ziad Saad who has been based in Dubai for over seven years. More >>

Dentons has strengthened its Energy and Infrastructure practice in Dubai with the hire of partner Mhairi Main Garcia. Mhairi joins the Firm from Ashurst, where she was Counsel. More >>