IFLR 1000
The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms

	Allen & Overy Clifford Chance
	Linklaters
	Ashurst Clyde & Co Hogan Lovells Norton Rose Shearman & Sterling Simmons & Simmons Vinson & Elkins
	Afridi & Angell Al Tamimi & Company Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Hadef & Partners

	Allen & Overy Clifford Chance Linklaters
	Shearman & Sterling
	Hogan Lovells Latham & Watkins Norton Rose
	Afridi & Angell Al Tamimi & Company Ashurst Clyde & Co Dewey & LeBoeuf Hadef & Partners Herbert Smith Reed Smith Simmons & Simmons SNR Denton Trowers & Hamlins Vinson & Elkins White & Case
	Habib Al Mulla & Company KBH Kaanuun Wong Partnership

	Allen & Overy Clifford Chance Linklaters
	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Shearman & Sterling
	Al Tamimi & Company Ashurst Clyde & Co Herbert Smith Hogan Lovells
	DLA Piper Hadef & Partners Latham & Watkins Norton Rose Simmons & Simmons Trowers & Hamlins Vinson & Elkins
	Baker & McKenzie Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Habib Al Mulla & Company KBH Kaanuun Wong Partnership

Hadef & Partners is the preferred choice of local practice for a number of international firms in the region and has operations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.The firm has expanded its partnership in the last 12 months making up Barton Hoggard in the corporate team and Valeria Lysenko and James Farn in the banking and finance department.... [more]

Hadef & Partners is the preferred choice of local practice for a number of international firms in the region and has operations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

The firm has expanded its partnership in the last 12 months making up Barton Hoggard in the corporate team and Valeria Lysenko and James Farn in the banking and finance department.

Peers single out banking and finance practise head Alan Rodgers as one of the firm's leading lawyers. Rodgers was active for the lenders which were financing one of the largest aluminium smelter projects in the UAE in August 2010. More recently the firm has advised the sponsors of the Shams1 solar power project the only renewable project in the Middle East.

The firm's corporate practice is headed by Sameer Huda who led a team advising on the $380 million acquisition of 80% of the issued share capital in ETA Star Cement Group, which has subsidiaries across the Middle East.

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