CC opens in Saudi with team of 30

Clifford Chance has become the first international law firm to open up in Saudi Arabia - through a venture which is jointly owned with local lawyers.

10 January 2014

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The firm's 30 lawyers, including five partners, will be aided by a support team of 20. Two of the partners come from Saudi. These are Abdulaziz Al-Abduljabbar and Khalid Al-Abdulkareem. A statement from the Magic Circle firm says that the new practice is thought to be the largest legal private practice in the kingdom. The firm says: 'The transactional lawyers of Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm, with which Clifford Chance has had a cooperation agreement since 1998, have all been integrated into the Clifford Chance practice.' Source: Clifford Chance