Firm Profile

Trowers & Hamlins is an international law firm. We are here to help businesses and governments change the way we live and work for the better. We do this by providing commercial advice geared towards tackling tomorrow’s challenges in industry. We like to build enduring one-to-one relationships with our clients and develop long-term partnerships beyond transactional work. We provide a full range of corporate, business and commercial legal services.

Trowers & Hamlins in Asia and the Middle East
The international practice of Trowers & Hamlins undertakes work in many jurisdictions but is particularly closely associated with Asia and the Middle East.  In the Middle East we are considered to be a regional specialist and we have broad geographical coverage and one of the largest, strongest and most experienced teams of lawyers.

Our connections with the Middle East date back to 1959. Trowers & Hamlins has long-established offices in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Oman and is now the first foreign law firm to secure a branch licence in Malaysia.

Our KL office is particularly focused on providing international counsel support to major projects and cross border investments for ASEAN clients internationally, and in the ASEAN region, applying our international experience of projects of a similar nature to important in-country projects, with particular focus on energy, infrastructure and PPP projects. Our range of clients and connections, and their fields of activity, are significant and varied.  Our client base ranges from Government-linked companies, to infrastructure funds, developers, real estate companies, banks, contractors and engineers, the automotive industry, and sundry partners involved in international commercial activity and joint ventures.

In Jordan we have a strong association with Abdul Karim J Al Fauri and Associates and we have successfully advised over the last 15 years on some of Jordan’s largest projects: its recent LNG import project; the Arab Gas pipeline from Egypt; oil shale concessions including one with oil major Shell; and a mine-mouth oil shale-fired Independent Power Project.

In Saudi Arabia we have a presence on the ground through an exclusive co-operation arrangement with Prima Law & Consultations Office, headed by HH Dr Abdulrahman bin Saud Al-Kabier.

In Kuwait we collaborate with a number of leading Kuwaiti law firms and we also enjoy very close and regular working relationships with law firms in Egypt (where we had our own office for more than 10 years) Qatar and Turkey.

Our Middle East practice is acknowledged as one of the leading legal practices in the region. The expertise and experience of our lawyers and the overall breadth and depth of our Gulf practice is amply demonstrated by our substantial involvement (past and present) in some of the most significant, complex high profile and innovative projects and transactions in the region.

We are consistently ranked as a leading law firm in the Middle East and North Africa and are the first law firm to secure a Law Society Award for service levels for our Middle East offices.

Trowers & Hamlins LLP’s Bahrain office houses a ‘committed team of litigators with excellent client care and fast response times’. (Legal500 2017)

Recognition and Awards

• China Business Law Journal: Best Overall Law Firms (Offshore), 2013-2020
• IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards: Offshore Law Firm of the Year 2020, Equity Deal of the Year 2020 – Budweiser APAC IPO, M&A Deal of the Year 2020 – eHi Car Services take-private, Restructuring Deal of the Year 2019 – Nobel Group Limited’s US$3.5 billion global restructuring
• Asia Legal Business Law Awards: M&A Deal of the Year 2019 – MBK Partners HK Limited’s privatisation of eHi Car Services Limited
• Who’s Who Legal Awards: British Virgin Islands Law Firm of the Year, 2018, 2017
• Who’s Who Legal Awards: Bermuda Law Firm of the Year, 2019, 2018, 2017
• Asian Lawyer Asia Legal Awards: Offshore Law Firm of the Year, 2016