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GFH Financial Group (GFH) has put pen to paper on some eye-catching transactions in 2018. Alongside paying off the outstanding amount of a 2007-drawn US$200m sukuk in August, it announced in July a US$150m construction contract to China Machinery and Engineering Corporation (CEMC) to 85% of its California Village project as part of the Dubailand project. Also in July, GFH announced plans to buy lifestyle tech platform Entertainer, that company being worth US$150m. At the heart of these projects and more, the company’s legal team is renowned across the Gulf and elsewhere. Nicholas Polley leads the team since joining in June 2017 as general counsel – after an already impressive career in the Gulf – and is joined, among others, by senior legal director Imran Sami.