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About International Bar Association (IBA):
In its role as a dual membership organisation, comprising 20,000 individual lawyers and over 195 bar associations and law societies, IBA influences the development of international law reform and shapes the future of the legal profession. Its member organisations cover all continents and include the American Bar Association, the German Federal Bar, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, the Law Society of Zimbabwe and the Mexican Bar Association.

Grouped into two divisions - the Legal Practice Division and the Public and Professional Interest Division - the association covers all practice areas and professional interests. It provides members with access to leading experts and up-to-date information as well as top-level professional development and network-building opportunities through high quality publications and world-class conferences.

The IBA's Bar Issues Commission provides member organisations with substantive and social programmes at and between meetings, while the IBA's Human Rights Institute works across the Association, helping to promote, protect and enforce human rights under a just rule of law, and to preserve the independence of the judiciary and the legal profession worldwide.

About Al Tamimi & Company:
Al Tamimi & Company, originally established in 1989, is today one of the leading law firms in the Arabian Gulf region. It is the largest local, non-affiliated law firm in the United Arab Emirates with offices in the Emirates of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah and associate offices in Doha and Baghdad.

Al Tamimi & Company specializes in Company/Commercial law, Litigation, Banking, Insurance, Maritime Law, Intellectual Property, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration.

An international team of high caliber lawyers ably serves clients from the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, the United Arab Emirates and several other Arab countries. Each member of our team of professionals and qualified administrative staff is fully committed to providing our clients with accurate, creative and cost effective advice. We pride ourselves on our complete knowledge of the laws and regulations applicable to our home jurisdiction and the commercial community abroad. Within the U.A.E. we regularly confer with government ministries during the introduction of new legislation and the ongoing amendment of internal regulations, relying on long established contacts in all government departments.

The firm can assist multinational companies to establish operations in the U.A.E. independently, or in association with local partners. Both our local clients, many of whom have business interests outside the United Arab Emirates, and international companies, rely on our global perspective. We subscribe to the belief that the world of opportunity does not recognize national boundaries.

Al Tamimi & Company specializes in:
• Banking & Finance
• Corporate/Commercial
• Information Technology
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation, Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Maritime, Trade & Insurance
• Construction
• Property
• Communications & Media

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