The noisy building site outside my hotel window last week gave me direct experience of Dubai’s steady revival from the economic crash of 2009. The record attendance at Legal Week‘s Corporate Counsel Forum Middle East and a very lively awards ceremony the following day added to a picture of a legal market that may not be booming, but is certainly finding its feet again after the devastating collapse in confidence following Dubai World’s debt restructuring.
At the awards, I was struck by the enthusiastic participation of the in-house legal teams who were keen to celebrate a busy year of achievements. The story Emirates Group’s legal department told in their entry of a motivated team working hard to provide good advice and value for money for an expanding business was compelling.
