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Hitting new heights

Qatar's rapid financial growth is making the Gulf state a force to be reckoned with. David Dhanoo reports
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Lovells builds Dubai with three finance mandates

Lovells' fledgling Dubai office has established itself with three sizeable Islamic finance deals in three weeks. The office, which was set up in May this…
1 minute read

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Dentons partner in Paris move to develop Africa links

One of Denton Wilde Sapte's senior project finance partners, Howard Barrie, is relocating to Paris from the UK, giving the firm its first English law capability in the French capital.
2 minute read

International Edition

US duo lead on $1bn Egypt bond issue

LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have advised on the first Egyptian-denominated Eurobond offering, worth around $1bn (£486m).
2 minute read

International Edition

HBJ Gateley goes international with Middle East launch

National law firm HBJ Gateley Wareing is to open its first international office by launching in Dubai.
2 minute read

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Zambia: The good fight

It is not often that the governments of six European countries and the US hail a decision of the Chancery Division as "historic". But such was the reaction to the judgment that Mr Justice Peter Smith handed down this May in Attorney General of Zambia v Meer Care & Desai.
5 minute read

International Edition

Dentons reshuffles Middle East as Abu Dhabi head steps down

Denton Wilde Sapte is to lose its Abu Dhabi office head but gain a technology, media and telecoms (TMT) chief in Dubai as UK law firms continue to fight for talent in the Middle East.
2 minute read

International Edition

Reed Smith boost as Simmons' Abu Dhabi arm hit by second team exit

Simmons & Simmons' Abu Dhabi office has been hit by the departure of a three-lawyer team to Reed Smith Richards Butler - the second team to leave the office in as many months.
1 minute read

International Edition

Saudi telecoms company calls up Freshfields for $3bn buy-out

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won a major Middle Eastern client, advising Saudi Telecom Company (STC) on its $3.05bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of a 25% stake in a Malaysian telecoms operator.
2 minute read

International Edition

CC and Norton Rose sail in for QE2 sale

Clifford Chance (CC) and Norton Rose have advised on the $100m (£50m) sale of iconic ocean liner the QE2 to Dubai World as the vessel with its own fan club sails off into the sunset to become a luxury floating hotel. CC advised Istithmar - the real estate investment arm of government-owned Dubai World -- fielding a team led by transactional shipping partner Paul Turner, who was assisted by senior associate Alex Denoon.
2 minute read

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