The firm in the Middle East was established in 1989. We have offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. We provide advice to a wide range of clients from countries all around the world on their operations throughout the Middle East.

Clyde & Co also has a correspondent office in Baghdad, Iraq. We became the first international law firm to be involved in Iraq when, in June 2003, Clyde & Co entered into an exclusive co-operation agreement with the Law Office of Numan Shakir Numan.

Within the Middle East offices we have over 50 lawyers and paralegals, including 12 partners. Our lawyers have specialist skills and expertise in our core areas of corporate and commercial, capital markets, banking and fnance, Islamic finance, dispute resolution, insurance and reinsurance, shipping and transport, aviation, international trade, energy, construction and property, information technology, media and telecoms, and employment.

Based on a successful formula of providing local expertise and experience, delivered to the high standards of an international law firm, Clyde & Co has, now, the largest presence of any of the international law firms in the United Arab Emirates.

Clyde & Co offers:

• a high degree of sector specialisation
• the resources of the international law firm with the largest presence in the UAE
• the qualitities of an international law firm but with real local know-how
• first class service delivery by committing the appropriate resources in the UAE to a project
• an innovative and practical approach to solving problems
• a track record of advising on complex matters
• the benefit of our experience and documentation which saves clients time and money
• an ability to understand business aims and to anticipate issues
• a fully transparent billing process in which a daily schedule and brief narrative of all casehandlers' time is made available, ensuring that clients pay only for the work that is actually carried out.
• a team-driven approach that involves lawyers with the appropriate degrees of experience (and charge out rates) carrying out the work required at the most economic level for the client