Trowers & Hamlins law firm news

Herbert Smith, Ashurst, White & Case and Trowers & Hamlins have all played a role in advising on the world’s largest power project financing thus far this year – Abu Dhabi’s US$1.5bn Shuweihat 3 independent power plant (IPP) project. According the Herbert Smith’s lead partner on the deal, Andrew Newberry, the project is a landmark partnership between Japanese and Korean investors in a Middle East energy financing project.

DLA Piper has appointed Sean Angle to lead its finance and projects practice group across the Middle East. Angle, who has over 20 years experience working in the region, joins the firm from Reed Smith and will bring with him two senior associates, Tim Watkins and Diwakir Agarwal.

Less than a fortnight after opening its second office in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Trowers & Hamlins has brought four new lawyers on board in Bahrain.

Trowers & Hamlins has become only the third international law firm to have two offices in Saudi Arabia after opening in the Kingdom’s financial centre Jeddah.

King & Spalding’s UAE offices have gained two new lawyers arriving from Trowers & Hamlins and DLA Piper.

Magic Circle firms Freshfields and Linklaters, along with Bahrain-based firms Quays H Zubi and Hassan Radhi & Associates have helped the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) on its US$1.25bn international bond issue.

ALB reports from the Gulf on what the region’s recent rejuvenation means for lawyers there

Clyde & Co and Trowers & Hamlins have advised on a transaction that marks the start of further consolidation that will happen among Middle East insurance companies in the next 18 months.

Kensington Swan has sent a team of five people from its Auckland and Wellington offices to staff the firm’s new branch in Abu Dhabi

Shariah-compliant law firm Agha & Shamsi has appointed former DLA Piper lawyer Claire Grainger as partner to head its projects and dispute resolution practice.

US-based firm Maalouf Ashford & Talbot has opened in Saudi Arabia after establishing an association with Saudi-admitted Dr Mohammed Al-Sunbusi, who will anchor the office.

Three law firms – Trowers & Hamlins, Denton Wilde Sapte and Shearman & Sterling – have advised on a crucial piece of infrastructure for the developing Omani state, the Salalah independent water and power project (IWPP).

Simmons & Simmons and local Omani firm Al Busaidy, Mansoor Jamal & Co have beaten ten others to provide legal advice on the Middle East’s first imported coal-fired project, the Duqm IWPP.

New Zealand’s Kensington Swan is all set to open its doors in Abu Dhabi – but where will the work come from?

Some of the Middle East’s top law firms have partnered up with the Dubai Land Department to provide their services pro-bono

Joint venture firm Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow has hired a new finance & projects partner, Henry Cort, in Singapore.

A string of Middle East law firms finalised a US$110m M&A deal before the Islamic Eid celebrations.

Trowers & Hamlins and Charles Russell have picked up major contracts as the administrators of two troubled Bahraini banks.

Hadef & Partners has cut six of its corporate finance lawyers and plans to shift a number of key partners between its Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices.

Riyadh-based firm Abdulaziz A Al-Bosaily (AAB) has found a new partner in Clyde & Co, after breaking off its alliance with DLA Piper in January. The common thread is a former DLA Piper lawyer involved in establishing both the old and new alliances.