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Meta associate GC among five partners joining DWF

New arrivals join corporate, dispute resolution and finance and restructuring teams in UK and Saudi Arabia

Baker McKenzie sets up interim Dubai management team as it splits with local arm’s executive chair over Tweets

Global firm also seeks new office as it responds to controversy over top local lawyer's anti-gay views

Honigman hires five Wall Street lawyers to launch US law-focused Israel subsidiary

Michigan law firm aims to create community of US lawyers in Israel

HFW makes double partner hire in Dubai from shipping rival Clyde & Co

UK firm hails 'very significant' hires and promises further Middle East investment

DIFC Courts in spotlight as Irish judges resign under pressure from human rights campaigners

Top Irish politician said judges were being deliberately used to legitimise regime

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Gleiss Lutz opens office in the Metaverse

Virtual venture will be led by Stuttgart partner Eric Wagner and target new opportunities in the largely unregulated digital environment

Arbitration services business Arbitra adds four new members

Group has increased its member headcount to 35 from 18 since launching a year ago

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Dentons hires DWF’s former Middle East finance and banking head as a partner

Umera Ali will split her time between the firm’s Dubai and Riyadh offices

Ex-Singapore politician launches Dubai’s first regulated NFT investment company

Cedar White Bradley advised Calvin Cheng Web3 Holdings, which was set up under Dubai’s new digital assets law

Dust settles on Dubai arbitration reforms as DIFC-LCIA’s Robert Stephen joins boutique

Registrar of superseded centre lands at Ghaffari Partners as international opinion remains divided over shake-up

Wizz Financial hires White & Case partner as next general counsel in Dubai

Adrianus Schoorl joins fintech with more than 25 years of financial regulatory experience in Europe, the Middle East and North America

Norton Rose Fulbright advises world’s third busiest crypto exchange on UAE move

Bybit relocates global headquarters to Dubai after introduction of new virtual assets law

Akin Gump secures highly rated Hong Kong Latham & Watkins arbitration partner

Ing Loong Yang is firm’s second senior disputes hire in recent weeks following Graham Lovett’s arrival in Dubai

Akin Gump hires four-strong disputes team from Gibson Dunn in Dubai

Team includes Gibson Dunn’s former Middle East disputes practice head Graham Lovett

Ex-Gibson Dunn partner fails to overturn disbarment for misleading court

Appeal by Peter Gray in high-profile Djibouti case founders after judge rules case against him was ‘very strong’

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News | UK

Ince signals 'new era' for Dubai office as it unveils replacements for departing head

Joint managing partners take charge after loss of former leader to Stephenson Harwood dents growth

Vinson & Elkins replenishes disputes bench in Dubai with partner hire from Hogan Lovells

Move comes hard on heels of exit of former office managing partner to set up boutique

Ex-Vinson Dubai managing partner launches disputes boutique with five-strong team

Ghaffari Partners to target international arbitration and dispute resolution work across Middle East and North Africa

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