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Global law firm Baker McKenzie has relocated partner James Burdett (LinkedIn) from London to Abu Dhabi, as the firm looks to expand and improve its services for MENA-based investment funds and private equity firms, according to a press release (pdf). Burdett, who led the firm’s London investments funds group for almost 20 years, will join the firm’s UAE team starting 1 April.
The move comes as Baker McKenzie looks to keep pace with the “increasing activity in the region amongst our institutional and sponsor clients, alongside a growing appetite for expanding their investment remit globally, and into ever-more complex [transactions],” Burdett said.
Our friends at Mashreq’s board of directors re-elected Abdulaziz Al Ghurair (LinkedIn) as chairman, and tapped Ahmad Al Khallafi (LinkedIn) as vice chairman, according to a DFM disclosure (pdf).
