#1-A number of UAE-based law firms went home with awards at the Chambers MiddleEast Awards 2024. We have the list of winners below:

  • Dubai-based Clifford Chance was named banking and finance law firm of the year as well as projects & energy law firm of the year;
  • Ibrahim & Partners was named capital markets law firm of the year;
  • Clyde & Co was named dispute resolution international law firm of the year;
  • DLA Piper scooped the inaugural restructuring and insolvency law firm of the year category and the corporate compliance & investigations law firm of the year awards;
  • Al Tamimi & Company snagged the real estate law firm and Commercial Contracts Law Firm awards;
  • Horizons & Co Law Firm was recognized as the dispute resolution domestic law firm of the year;
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was named the corporate/M&A law firm of the year;
  • Addleshaw Goddard snagged the construction law firm of the year award;
  • Hadef & Partners topped the category of employment law firms;
  • Gowling WLG was named the intellectual property law firm of the year;
  • Latham & Watkins was awarded the technology, media and telecoms law firm of the year award;
  • HFW was named shipping law firm of the year and ins. law firm of the year.
  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was named the investment funds law firm of the year award.

#2-The UAE maintained first place regionally in the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP)’s Gender Equality Index 2024, according tothe Dubai Media Office, citing announcements made during the latest session of the UNDP’s Commission on the Status of Women in New York. The country ranked seventh globally, up four positions from its previous ranking of eleventh place in 2022.

ALSO WORTH NOTING-

  • Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has issued a directive for a new non-profit,dubbed the Dubai Community Contributions Establishment, to manage and funnel charitable donations into humanitarian cases, through overseeing the Jood charitable donation portal. (Dubai Media Office)
  • ADX-listed crypto miner Phoenix Group bagged the “Bitcoin Mining Company ofthe Year” award at the E-Business Awards 2024, hosted by regional business magazine Entrepreneur Middle East. (Statement)
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