World legislation agency Greenberg Traurig now boasts the biggest sports activities, media and leisure staff within the Center East with the addition of two new attorneys: shareholder David Bintliff and senior affiliate Lewis Calder, who will likely be primarily based within the United Arab Emirates workplace. Each have been beforehand with Chook and Chook.
The transfer displays the Center East’s rising prominence within the worldwide sports activities area. Greenberg Traurig shoppers within the area embody high-tech racing observe Yas Marina Circuit, host venue of Abu Dhabi’s annual Components One race; and RCS Sports activities, promoter of the UAE Tour, the seven-stage biking race sanctioned by UCI.
“Our enterprise mannequin is about going the place development, innovation, and wealth are going and discovering glorious, culturally constant, and entrepreneurial attorneys in every location,” stated Greenberg Traurig govt chairman Richard A. Rosenbaum. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the UAE completely match our mannequin, at present and going ahead.”
Rosenbaum added that the transfer is a part of the agency’s technique to satisfy the wants of the area’s fast-growing enterprise and authorities sectors: “As main investments move into and from the UAE and the Kingdom, we’re constructing sturdy groups in the true property and hospitality trade, the monetary sector, together with non-public fairness, non-public credit score, banking, M&A, and capital markets, in addition to sports activities, leisure and media.”
“We’re thrilled to have David and his staff – leaders within the media, leisure, and know-how area – be part of Steven Bainbridge and our UAE workplace and strengthen the agency’s already thriving apply,” stated Khalid Al-Thebity, the agency’s regional chair of the Center East.
Bintliff is tasked with delivering the biggest media, leisure, and know-how regulatory and industrial tasks within the Center East. His expertise contains advising worldwide governments and personal sector gamers on media, leisure, and know-how licensing, regulation, benchmarking, and session tasks.
Calder advises shoppers on key industrial agreements that underpin their companies, with a selected concentrate on the media, sports activities, and leisure sectors. His apply focuses totally on contractual issues protecting media rights, sponsorship, merchandising, licensing, occasion administration, and participant/expertise administration.
Bintliff and Calder be part of Greenberg Traurig’s sizeable Center East lawyer staff that already contains 10 shareholders, 5 of counsel and 5 associates and trainees.
