DLA's Middle East head steps down, Kuwait chief named as successor

DLA Piper’s Middle East regional managing partner David Church is to step down next year and will be replaced by the head of the firm’s Kuwait office, Abdul Aziz Al-Yaqout. Church launched the firm’s Middle East presence with a Dubai office in 2006. He is expected to move back to the UK during the middle of next year and will continue in the role of international development partner, a position he has occupied since the 2005 transatlantic merger of DLA, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich and Piper Rudnick.

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