United Arab Emirates
| Partner Graham Lovett has been re-elected by his peers to serve a further term as leader of the firm’s Middle East region. Lovett was first elected to the role in 2005 and, following the recent vote by the region’s partners, will commence his new four year term from 1 July 2010. Under his leadership, Clifford Chance was voted by in-house counsel as the most responsive international firm in the UAE in Asian-Counsel’s Representing Corporate Asia poll in 2009.
Having joined the firm in 1993, Lovett was elevated to the partnership’s ranks in 2003. He undertakes general commercial litigation and arbitration work for the firm, and has advised on fraud (freezing/disclosure orders and asset tracing), investigations, joint venture, partnership and shareholder disputes, banking and finance, insurance, regulatory (investigations and disciplinary/enforcement), foreign assistance in civil and criminal claims, information technology and construction. |
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