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Connecting Continents, Shaping Law
This month, our focus turns to Africa and Asia, two regions reshaping global growth and investment. From Egypt’s ongoing legal and economic reforms and the strengthening of UAE–Moroccan relations, to the rise of Korean investment across the Middle East, this issue highlights the developments driving change across these markets.
We also explore the UAE’s role as a bridge between regions – a hub for private wealth management, dispute resolution, and cross-border collaboration, connecting businesses and investors across Africa and Asia. The articles in this edition offer practical insights into how these shifts are influencing trade, regulation, and market confidence across the wider region.
2025 is set to be a game-changer for the MENA region, with legal and regulatory shifts from 2024 continuing to reshape its economic landscape. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, and Bahrain are all implementing groundbreaking reforms in sustainable financing, investment laws, labor regulations, and dispute resolution. As the region positions itself for deeper global integration, businesses must adapt to a rapidly evolving legal environment.
Our Eyes on 2025 publication provides essential insights and practical guidance on the key legal updates shaping the year ahead—equipping you with the knowledge to stay ahead in this dynamic market.
German and English qualified lawyer Anne K. Hoffmann has relocated to Dubai where she has joined Al Tamimi & Company as Special Counsel in the arbitration department.
Anne regularly acts as counsel and arbitrator in commercial disputes arising under all major rules as well as in ad hoc proceedings. Moreover, Anne brings invaluable experience advising in investment treaty arbitration, having represented investors in disputes against various States, including the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Kazakhstan as well as in an ICSID revision proceeding.
Anne is a visiting lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin and regularly speaks and publishes on arbitration issues. She speaks English, German, French and Russian.
Essam Al Tamimi, Senior Partner of Al Tamimi & Company has welcomed Anne’s appointment: “Anne is a truly international arbitration practitioner with a wealth of experience in both commercial and, very importantly, investment arbitration in different jurisdictions. We are focused on the growth of our arbitration practice acting in the MENA region and increasingly internationally andAnne’s appointment will ensure we continue on this path with even more emphasis, offering our clients excellent services in the competitive arbitration market.”
Anne joins the firm from Python & Peter in Geneva where she practiced for the last eight years, since 2011 as a partner. Before that, she practised in London for five years. Anne graduated from Freie Universitӓt Berlin and University College London where she gained her LL.M
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