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  • June 14, 2012 |

    Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year: Hadef & Partners

    The case highlighted by Hadef & Partners in its entry submission for the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year category concerned a Dubai Court of Appeal judgment that secured a record employment claim.

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  • June 14, 2012 |

    Corporate Team of the Year: Al Tamimi & Company

    Coca-Cola's landmark acquisition of a 50% stake in Saudi Arabian company Aujan Industries' beverage brands and a 49% stake in its bottling and distribution assets provided Al Tamimi & Company's corporate team with plenty of opportunities to shine.

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  • June 14, 2012 |

    International Law Firm of the Year: Clifford Chance

    Clifford Chance's mission is to combine "the highest global standards with local expertise". Thanks to a presence in the Middle East that spans 35 years, the firm says its main focus is on building on its existing client relationships and becoming a strategic partner, helping clients to grow. As part of this approach, it offers training to its Middle East clients, many of whom are based in small legal departments.

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  • June 14, 2012 |

    Banking, Finance and Restructuring Team of the Year: Allen & Overy

    The Government of Dubai's request in November 2009 for a six-month standstill agreement on Dubai World's debt repayments heralded a new phase of the global credit crisis.

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  • June 7, 2012 |

    Acting outside the box - the emerging dispute resolution centres developing innovative ways to attract business

    "Attitudes towards international dispute resolution have also shifted and the landscape has changed significantly in recent years. In 10 years' time, it is likely to be unrecognisable compared to the traditional systems to which lawyers and their clients had become accustomed..."

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  • June 1, 2012 |

    Bird & Bird sees turnover grow 10%; Taylor Wessing posts 7% firmwide hike

    Bird & Bird has announced double-digit revenue growth for 2011-12, while partner profits are set to return to the pre-recession highs of 2007-08. The UK top 20 firm has posted turnover of £235m for the year, up 10% from the figure of £214.6m took in during 2010-11.

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  • May 24, 2012 |

    New rules and India recognition will push arbitration into the mainstream in China

    Clydes' Ik Wei Chong and Yong Tong Ang say arbitration is becoming crucial tool to China-related disputes

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  • May 18, 2012 |

    Al Tamimi and CC among winners at first Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards

    Middle East leader Al Tamimi & Company was the big winner at the Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards last week, securing three prizes at the inaugural event in Dubai, which also saw firms including Clifford Chance (CC) honoured alongside in-house teams at companies such as Al Tayer Group...

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  • May 17, 2012 |

    Quality marks - a patchy partnership always bodes ill

    As Dewey & LeBoeuf this week officially became the world's largest legal failure, it seems an appropriate moment to return to a theme touched on often in this column: the difference between success and failure in the high-end legal market. Years of covering the profession have made me believe it has surprisingly little to do with business models or market positioning. Though law firm leaders and commentators often belabour the 'right' strategy or shape for a firm, the global legal market offers a bewildering array of successful outfits operating wildly different models. What have Latham & Watkins, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, DLA Piper, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Clyde & Co and Travers Smith got in common? Not much. There is also often confusion between correlation and cause. Is Freshfields successful because it is magic circle, or magic circle because it is successful? That isn't semantics (though there is no clear answer).

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  • May 17, 2012 |

    CC and A&O among firms appointed to Munich Re's first-ever global panel

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among a line-up of UK law firms to have been appointed to insurance giant Munich Re's first-ever global panel.

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