Former Lovells Mid East chief joins Baker Botts

Baker Botts has hired former Lovells Middle East head Shibeer Ahmed in a boost for its Dubai project finance practice. Ahmed joined the US firm’s Dubai office earlier this month – having left Lovells at the end of April. He had co-headed Lovells’ Middle East practice alongside Rahail Ali since its 2007 launch. Ahmed’s practice focuses on conventional banking and infrastructure and power project finance. He also specialises in Islamic finance, in particular project, structured and syndicated financings.

Former Lovells Mid East chief joins Baker Botts legalweek.com Tue, May 26, 2009