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SJ Berwin LLP

PARK PLACE SUITE 303, SHEIKH ZAYED ROAD, PO BOX 24482, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Tel:: Work +971 4 328 9900
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Web:: www.sjberwin.com
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What we say about the firm's legal practice in United Arab Emirates

Dispute resolution

Within Dispute resolution, tier 4

SJ Berwin LLP’s team combines ‘outstanding business acumen with clever and highly effective strategies tailored for the particular matter’. Global head of arbitration Tim Taylor QC also heads the team regionally, having relocated to Dubai in 2009; he is ‘an excellent practitioner at the top of his field’. Along with ‘excellent case manager’ Mark Hoyle, who joined from Al Tamimi & Company in February 2011, Taylor has been advising clients such as Meydan Group and Nakheel PJSC in major regional cases. The team represented the latter in its proceedings before the Dubai World Tribunal, and the former in dispute with Arabtec.

Investment funds

Within Investment funds, SJ Berwin LLP is a second tier firm,

SJ Berwin LLP has brought together a ‘first-rate’ team of funds specialists led by Benjamin Aller, who is ‘an excellent practitioner at the top of his field’. Since establishing its presence in Dubai in 2009, its focus on fund formation and structuring has attracted a client list that includes Swicorp, Instrata Capital and Qatar First Investment Bank. It also took steps to broaden its capabilities into transactional matters by recruiting Hamish Walton from Clyde & Co LLP. Bilkis Ismail is also recommended.

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