Dubai World Restructuring Won't Spark Exodus: Experts

Law360, New York (November 30, 2009, 6:22 PM ET) -- Dubai's announcement that it will restructure state-owned investment company Dubai World could create more work and opportunities for certain law firms, while harming others, but no one expects international lawyers to begin fleeing the city-state en masse, according to experts based in the area.

Jawad I. Ali, deputy head of King & Spalding LLP's Middle East and Islamic finance practice group, said in a phone interview from Dubai that it was still very early to jump to conclusions, and that it was a “wait-and-see type situation”...
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