Organisation: Dubai International Financial Centre

Baker McKenzie is cutting ties with leading Emirati arbitration practitioner Habib Al Mulla after he published tweets calling homosexuality “evil”.

12 September 2022

The LCIA has revealed it took on fewer cases in 2021 compared with the covid-fuelled high of the year before – while announcing the latest appointments to the LCIA Court.

17 May 2022

GAR looks at the ongoing chaos in Dubai caused by a shock decree six months ago that effectively abolished the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre in a bid to make DIAC the principal arbitral provider in the emirate.

19 March 2022

The first GAR Connect Eastern Mediterranean saw speakers discuss dispute-related trends arising from offshore natural gas fields in the Mediterranean itself, in countries bordering the sea like Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Libya and Turkey, and as far East as the Gulf and Russia.

10 March 2022

Vinson & Elkins has hired construction disputes partner Nabeel Ikram in Dubai from Hogan Lovells following the departure of the office’s managing partner Amir Ghaffari last month.

02 March 2022

Amir Ghaffari has left his role as managing partner of Vinson & Elkins’ Dubai office to set up a new international arbitration boutique in the United Arab Emirates.

23 February 2022

Raza Mithani has left the partnership at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in Dubai to set up a UAE boutique focusing on disputes and investigations – where he will be aided by three silks and a former president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

21 January 2022

Readers are invited to join us next month for GAR Live: Abu Dhabi, which will feature sessions on how to improve advocacy skills and the effects of covid-19 on construction projects, as well as a debate on Dubai’s shock decree abolishing the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre.

14 January 2022

Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has promoted three partners and two counsel in its international disputes practice in New York, Paris and London.

05 January 2022

The American Branch of the International Law Association's latest international law weekend featured panels on the future of international energy governance, climate change, geopolitics and economic competition, international commercial courts and service of process. Lawyers involved share five key takeaways for arbitration practitioners. 

01 December 2021