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I recently sat down with Salah Mostafa – Head of Legal META for Takeda Pharmaceuticals to discuss how he and his team used an innovative idea to create stronger relationships with their business partners: a boardgame. Salah, I guess the first question is, why a board game? It’s a good question, and I appreciate how odd it seems initially. In today’s world, reactive “lawyerin...

What makes a good In-House lawyer? Can it be quantified? Perhaps not, but Jim Merklinger, the President of the new ACCCI (Association of Corporate Counsel Credentialing Institute) thinks there are measures that can be put into place to enhance, develop, and further professionalize the role of the In-House Counsel worldwide. This is via a thoroughly researched certification p...

The legal market in the Middle East has started to recover slowly from a quiet 2017. As the market begins to improve following a recovery in oil prices and a further maturing of the market, opportunities are starting to emerge in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia across a range of sectors. The majority of roles arise in core areas such as corporate, fin...

Ben Cockram, Associate Director at Taylor Root was delighted to meet with Joanne Fischlin, Head of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs for the Gulf region at Microsoft. Joanne has a private practice and in-house background and her expertise ranges across many industries including retail, manufacturing, FSI and now technology. We interview Joanne about the upcoming General ...

What a difference 10 years makes. When I arrived fresh off the plane from the UK in 2007 to set up Taylor Root's Dubai presence, the market I walked into was as chaotic as it was exciting. There didn't seem to be any strategy behind law firm growth, just an innate desire to jump on the rollercoaster and get a piece of the action. Whether this meant growing teams from scratch...

We interviewed Lyubomir Modev, Compliance Officer for the EMEA region at Ingram Micro, about compliance trends, challenges and must have skills for compliance officers. Izgi: What are the essential skills a compliance officer must have? Lyubomir: A compliance officer needs to be a very well-rounded professional and there are many attributes that the best in the profession mu...

The complicated market dynamics of a region that has had to adjust its economic outlook due to direct (the Oil Price, regional instability) and indirect (Brexit, US Elections) factors, has led to a greater focus on cost, and the importance of getting more ‘bang for your buck’. In the Legal arena, this has increased pressure on the those in ‘Big Law’ to address their levels o...

On Wednesday 22 February 2017, Taylor Root sponsored the in-house congress in Dubai. The event was held at Raffles and Taylor Root was in attendance on the day. This was the eleventh annual congress in the Middle East which is part of the highly successful in-house community congress series. The event welcomed leading in-house lawyers, CEOs, company directors and compliance ...

Andrew Rosenbaum This post-apartheid South African legislation aimed to bring more people of colour into top-level corporate jobs. But statistics from the ILO show that's not happening. Commentators complain of a system in need of reform, but there are plenty of companies that do manage to navigate it – and ultimately recruit top talent. There is a growing body of opinion in...

On Monday 3rd October 2016, Taylor Root Dubai was delighted to host an evening of drinks and canapés at Intersect by Lexus. The event provided an opportunity for legal professionals to network with their peers in the region in an informal and relaxed setting. In addition it presented a fantastic opportunity to let our clients know that we now have the largest, and most exper...