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. Hogan Lovells (in association with Al- Yaqoub Attorneys & Legal Advisors) and US firm Crowell & Moring (in association with Fahd El Enizy) both opened Jeddah offices earlier this year. 

Trowers’ office, which will operate in association with local outfit Feras Al Shawaf Law Office, will cover the full spectrum of commercial work and will be led by current Saudi head Adrian Creed and senior lawyer Julien Sweeting, who is currently on secondment in Riyadh from the firm’s London Office. Creed said the increasing demand for legal services in the Kingdom’s western provinces has driven the firm to open in Jeddah – its sixth office in the Gulf region. 

Meanwhile, the firm has pulled off a dual lateral hire in its Dubai-based international projects group. Stewart Simpson joins the firm from the Dubai office of Simmons & Simmons where he was the managing associate, while Peter Bowring comes on board from the London office of King & Spalding where he was counsel. The appointments bring the number of partners at Trowers & Hamlins to 122.

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