The legal team at The First Investor, the investment banking arm of Barwa Bank Group, was awarded “Legal Team of the Year’’ at the Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards 2016 in Dubai, in recognition of its innovative investment legal structuring in the field of Islamic finance and investment banking. The team headed by Allen Merhej, was also shortlisted for “General Counsel of the Year’’ and “In-House Innovation Award’’. “The moral value of the award is tremendous as it presents the legal experts and competitors’ recognition of our team’s hard work and expertise in providing sound advice to the company and the investors,” Merhej said.
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