Chadbourne & Parke LLP is pleased to announce that corporate lawyer Romi H. Nayef has joined the firm’s Dubai office as an international partner. Mr. Nayef joins Chadbourne from Greenberg Traurig LLP where he served as Head of the Middle East Practice Group. More >>

Dentons is pleased to announce that Kelly Tymburski has joined the Dubai office as a partner in the TMT practice. Kelly arrives from Bird & Bird where she has been head of TMT in the Middle East since 2014. More >>

Dentons is pleased to announce that Matthew Showler has joined the Dubai office as a partner in its dispute resolution practice. Matthew arrives from the Dubai office of King and Wood Mallesons. More >>

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has today (25 January 2016) announced the appointments of two new Partners into its Dubai office to further boost the Firm’s UAE offering. Raza Mithani, an International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Partner, joins the Firm on 3 February 2016 from King & Spalding, and Alexander Sarac, an Energy and Infrastructure Partner, joins from DLA Piper. More >>

Global law firm Clyde & Co has grown its MENA partnership with the addition of a new corporate partner joining the firm’s Dubai office. More >>

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has expanded its finance group with leading banking and finance partner hire Neale Downes in the Dubai office. Neale’s experience includes corporate lending, structured finance, acquisition finance, trade finance, project, construction and development finance and in particular, Islamic Finance. More >>

Hogan Lovells is expanding its Dubai office with the addition of partners Charles Fuller, Andrew Tarbuck and Anthony Pallett. They are joining from Latham & Watkins in Dubai. Charles and Andrew join the Corporate practice while Anthony joins the firm’s Finance practice. More >>

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has hired James Coleman as corporate partner* in the Dubai office. More >>