Hogan Lovells will close its Abu Dhabi office and transfer all its work to the firm’s Dubai hub by the end of this year, the firm confirmed today.

Hogan Lovells, which also has offices in Jeddah and Riyadh, is currently in talks with the five partners, three associates and counsel currently working out of Abu Dhabi, as to where they will be based after the office’s closure. Four of the partners – Waajid Siddiqui, Bruce Parmley, Mark Mazo and James Gede – currently split their time between Abu Dhabi and Hogan Lovells’ offices in the US.