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A&O partner Asher parachuted in to lead Co-op rescue as new GC
Allen & Overy (A&O) global financial institutions head Alistair Asher is joining the Co-op as its new group general counsel as the troubled mutual sets out a £1.5bn rescue plan for its banking arm. Asher, who has spent more than 34 years at A&O, i...
18 Jun 2013 | 11:52
Legal Department of the Year (Large Team): Emirates Group
Under the leadership of Rick Ward, the Emirates Group's legal department has been restructured into three divisions to align lawyers more closely with the group's core activities. This has helped the department respond to an exceptionally busy year th...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Legal Counsel of the Year: Wafa Derouiche
According to the judging panel, Wafa Derouiche "exhibits true leadership and initiative". She is regional and compliance counsel for the Middle East and Africa at engineering giant Pentair. And although she is sole legal counsel for the region, she ha...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
International Law Firm of the Year: Allen & Overy
Allen & Overy's mission is to blend local roots with international expertise. Its Middle East network boasts offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Riyadh, where it recently formed an exclusive alliance with local practice Zeyad S Khoshaim Law Firm. ...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
CSR Award: Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance (CC) is running an initiative to help 100,000 people across the world through community and pro bono work. One example of the work undertaken by Middle East-based staff was a drive to raise AED100,000 (£18,000) to pay for a school...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year: Shearman & Sterling
Shearman & Sterling was named Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year for its work advising the Dow Chemical Company on one of the largest arbitration awards ever. Dow was awarded US$2.5bn (£1.6bn) in a dispute with state-owned Kuwaiti gia...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
General Counsel of the Year: Afshan Akhtar
Afshan Akhtar joined Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) with a brief to build a cutting-edge legal department befitting of one of the world's leading aluminium producers. "She has applied her legal and non-legal skills to contribute to the success of her compan...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Arabian night – the Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards 2013
The cream of the Middle East legal community gathered in Dubai last month for the second annual Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards. Three hundred guests attended the event on 16 May at The Western Dubai Mina Seyahi hotel to celebrate the achievement...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Legal Department of the Year (Small Team): China State Construction Engineering
China State Construction Engineering's (CSCE's) team of five in-house lawyers serve the legal needs of almost 5,000 staff at the real estate and construction giant, working across eight countries. To do this successfully requires ingenuity and resourc...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Achievement Award: Angel Wesley
Al Dhabi Investment general counsel and corporate secretary Angel Wesley received the Corporate Counsel Middle East Group (CCME) Achievement Award for her work on forming Abu Dhabi-based charity Labor of Love UAE. The initiative was founded in 2011...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Property and Construction Team of the Year: Hadef & Partners
A team from Hadef & Partners, led by Anthony Edwards, head of the firm's Dubai engineering and construction team, caught the judging panel's attention for its work on a landmark case before the Dubai World Tribunal. The team acted for Technical A...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Oxford Uni to join forces with social mobility venture PRIME
The University of Oxford is set to become the first higher education provider to join forces with PRIME, as the law-firm backed venture aimed at boosting access to the legal profession prepares to increase the number of in-house legal teams signed up....
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Corporate Team of the Year: Allen & Overy
Allen & Overy (A&O) secured this hotly contested award for its work advising on the highly complex $9bn (£6bn) deal to relocate OCI, Egypt's largest listed company, to Amsterdam. A team of 55 lawyers, led by Middle East head of corporate Andrew Schoo...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Middle East Law Firm of the Year: Al Tamimi & Company
The judging panel described Al Tamimi & Company, winner of Middle East Law Firm of the Year for a second year running, as a "truly regional player with scale and scope". The firm was able to demonstrate strategic vision, business winning and a str...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
Commercial Team of the Year: Dentons
Dentons scooped the Commercial Team of the Year award for its work on a high-profile project that according to the judges demonstrated "high levels of legal expertise and innovation, teamwork and clear evidence of client satisfaction". Dentons' ro...
14 Jun 2013 | 00:00
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