The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 Recognizes Akin Gump Lawyers and Practices

(London) – The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 has highlighted a number of Akin Gump practices and lawyers in the firm’s Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Geneva, London, and Moscow offices as leaders in their respective fields. The Legal 500 EMEA provides ranking and analysis of law firms working in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

In the Iraq guide, the firm was newly ranked as a “leading firm,” with Hamish Lal recommended and Julian Nichol recognized as a leading individual.

Additionally, the following Akin Gump practices and lawyers are ranked and recommended, respectively, throughout the EMEA region:

RUSSIA

Banking and finance: Borrower side

• Robert Aulsebrook
• Natalia Baratiants
• Dmitry Shiryaev

Capital Markets: Moscow

• Olga Te – Rising Star

Commercial, corporate, and M&A: Moscow

• Ms. Baratiants
• Alexander Shalaev – Rising Star
• Svetlana Volevich

Energy and natural resources

• Ms. Baratiants – Leading Individual

TMT

• Anna Semashko – Rising Star
• Ms. Volevich

SWITZERLAND

WTO

• Stephen Kho
• Alan Yanovich– Leading Individual

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Capital markets

• Hamed Afzal
• Rizwan Kanji – Leading Individual

Commercial, corporate and M&A

• Dinmukhamed T. Eshanov
• Wael Jabsheh

Dispute resolution: compliance and investigations

• Mahmoud Baki Fadlallah
• Natasha G. Kohne
• Johann Strauss

Founded in 1945, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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