Maples & Calder Planning Dubai Launch

by Lorys Charalambous, for LawAndTax-News.com, Cyprus

01 July 2005

Cayman-based offshore law firm, Maples and Calder, which specialises in the practice of British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Jersey law, announced this week that it will be opening a fully staffed law office in Dubai.

The new office will be located in the Dubai International Finance Centre, and will be headed up by full-time resident partner Tahir Jawed.

According to Maples & Calder, the office will provide a broad range of multi-jurisdictional offshore advice in the firm’s specialist areas; hedge and mutual funds, private equity transactions, structured and asset finance, corporate law and trusts for high net worth individuals.

Senior partner Anthony Travers explained that:

“We have been impressed by the increase in transactional flow from the region over the past two years, particularly to our London office. Our objectives remain the same; to deliver the highest quality advice within the most effective business model. A fully-staffed legal presence in the region is therefore the logical step and in Tahir Jawed we have absolutely the right man for the job.”

The firm also successfully opened offices in Jersey and the British Virgin Islands in September 2004, marking the first steps in its programme to establish in all the major offshore jurisdictions. The official opening of the Dubai office will be on Monday 26th September.

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