SNR Denton Middle East chief quits firm for 'personal reasons'
SNR Denton has seen the departure of Doha-based Middle East managing partner Leigh Hall, who has left for "personal reasons", according to the firm. Hall had been a partner at the firm since 2007, when he joined in a lateral move from US firm Patton Boggs to assume the Doha office managing partner role at legacy Denton Wilde Sapte.
June 15, 2012 at 11:36 AM
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SNR Denton has seen the departure of Doha-based Middle East managing partner Leigh Hall, who has left for "personal reasons", according to the firm.
Hall had been a partner at the firm since 2007, when he joined in a lateral move from US firm Patton Boggs to assume the Doha office managing partner role at legacy Denton Wilde Sapte.
He was handed a wider management remit in the region after Dentons' US merger with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal created SNR Denton in September 2010, and also joined the combined firm's new-look EMEA policy and planning board in a management overhaul in 2011.
Hall's practice focuses on advising on international development and project finance, Islamic finance, corporate finance and capital market transactions and media and compliance issues. Deal highlights at SNR Denton have included leading the team advising Qatar on its successful bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in 2010.
SNR Denton said it will provide details of its new Middle East management and structure and board line-up shortly. Neil Cuthbert, who since 2001 has been senior partner of the firm's Middle East offices, remains based in the firm's Dubai office.
The news comes as KBH Kaanuun, a boutique corporate and commercial law firm with offices in the Dubai International Financial Centre, Kuwait and Bahrain, has hired SNR Denton's former London disputes partner DK Singh
Singh, who has joined KBH as an equity partner in Dubai, left SNR Denton in January this year.
SNR Denton is also set to lose insolvency disputes duo Susan Moore and Elizabeth Elliott to Stephenson Harwood, which has hired a raft of partners from SNR Denton in little over a year, including real estate litigation partner Andrew Myers, who joined the firm earlier this month.
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