Galadari & Associates Wins Gold Award for the UAE at the 2008 ILA Awards. 

 

Dubai, 18 June 2008 – Galadari & Associates won Best Independent Law Firm of the Year for the UAE at the recent International Legal Alliance Awards 2008 held in Paris.

Commenting on the Awards, Chairman Ziad Abdulla Galadari, said, “We are delighted to have won this award. The spread of nominations reinforces the reputation of Galadari & Associates as the leading, independent full-service law firm in the UAE. We thank our client’s for their continued support and remain committed to providing service of the highest quality. My thanks also go to the team who are behind this success and achievement. I would like to congratulate them, thank them for their hard work and wish them good luck and continued success”.

The Award particularly recognises the outstanding work carried out by the Firm’s Capital Markets and Investment Banking Group who continue to advise on first of a kind, frontier market transactions most notably in Islamic Finance, Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions. The team was praised for its proficient handling of complex transactions, and operating at the cutting edge of structured financial work.

The Awards also honored the firms’ strategy over the past year, recognising the development of practice areas, marketing strategy and a successful branding exercise.

Acknowledging the importance of the awards, Ziad Galadari said, “It is a particular honour to receive this award during the year where the Firm celebrates its 25^th Anniversary. Our objective has been to consolidate the Firms regional dominance over the past few decades and create a firm platform for improved performance in the future.”

Based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Galadari & Associates has been providing legal and policy advice to the regions government, government owned corporations and private business clients for over 25 years. The Firm is one of the oldest and largest law firms in the Middle East with a team of over 45 lawyers and nearly 100 supporting professionals from around the globe. They have an in-depth understanding of the legal issues and techniques essential in advising on complex transactions not only within a domestic framework but also on an international and regional basis.