DWF Middle East LLP has significantly bolstered its team with the arrivals of Bill Evans and Victoria Clucas from Kennedys in April 2023, Paul Suckling and Oliver Dupenois from Horizons & Co Law Firm LLC in August 2023, and Adam Pryor from Clyde & Co LLP in the same month. The group acts for blue-chip corporates, multinational financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals, principally excelling in complex financial, banking and insurance cases. James Fox is highly reputed for his experience acting on precedent-setting cases in the DIFC. Legal director Donal Scott and associate Jessika Stadwick provide additional support in commercial litigation and international arbitration. Slava Kiryushin left the firm.
Testimonials
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‘James Fox and the team are expert across the whole UAE legal landscape, both before the onshore and offshore Courts and able to provide a seamless service across all. In particular, their experience and knowledge of the local market when it comes to advocates to use is a real lifeline to those not as present in the region.'
‘Unrivalled knowledge of the UAE legal landscape. Good strategic litigators with a strong eye on how to maximise the diverse advantages of the civil & commercial court systems. Commercially minded and able to focus in on the key issues.’
Key clients
- Neoma Private Equity Fund IV
- Cesfin Ventures LLC
Work highlights
- Acting on a claim (c. USD 250m) against KPMG for failures in various audits of NPEF IV when NPEF IV was part of the Abraaj Group.
- Acting on a multi-jurisdictional asset recovery case following an arbitration award granted to Cessna Finance Corporation / Textron Financial Corporation relating to the leasing of three jets to a UAE private jet operator worth approximately USD 110m, in which DWF has recently achieved an outstanding settlement of USD $50m.