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2 Dec 2009, 11:15 am
Wondering about the current legal climate in Dubai now that Dubai World--the massive sovereign wealth conglomerate--has announced a debt restructuring that could eventually impact nearly half its outstanding $60 billion debt, we called a lawyer who has been in the Middle East for nearly 20 years. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 1:27 pm
Lots of law firms have opened offices in Dubai over the last two years. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 3:50 am
But the financial mess in Dubai may be just the beginning of heavy government debt coming back to bite borrowers and lenders alike, in many different parts of the world. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 9:04 pm
 Dubai itself is not a party to any BITs, according to the World Bank, but the UAE, of which Dubai is a part, is a party to 21 (that's not many - fewer than Venezuela and Vietnam). [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 5:24 am
Today's Financial Times features a column from Professor Willem Buiter, [Update: Named today as chief economist for Citigroup] who suggests that the effect of Dubai's default on the world economy might be overstated:Take the worst-case scenario where the debt, all $60bn of it, is worthless. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 1:36 am
While British banks' exposure to Dubai World caused a drop in their shares, the sell-off seems overdone, Breakingviews says. [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 3:31 pm
How Dubai World, a corporation owed by the government of Dubai, will resolve its debt issues has been the subject of much speculation, and little hard fact. [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 6:57 am
Just in the last few days, Dubai World (DW) shocked investors all across the world in announcing that it will take steps to seek a six month standstill period on payments of interest and principal on $59 billion of its outstanding debt. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 3:30 pm
Thanksgiving's big financial news was the financial straits of Dubai, that tiny Arab emirate that has built the world's tallest building on the world's whitest sand with money from banks in Europe (and the US?) [read post]
26 Nov 2009, 6:46 am
One need look no further than Dubai for the 2009 edition of this phenomenon. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 8:49 am
Dubai will ask creditors of two of its flagship firms for a standstill on debt worth billions of dollars as a first step toward restructuring Dubai World, the conglomerate that spearheaded the emirate's breakneck growth. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 8:28 am
Then, he said, he launched his rubber dinghy, started the motor and piloted it six hours to meet an awaiting sailboat.Now he's in South Florida, embroiled in a federal lawsuit over an ill-fated business venture with Dubai World Corp., which says the 2008 escape story is one of his many lies. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 4:53 am
Khoury explains how the Emirate of Dubai is reinventing its economic identity with an emphasis on intellectual property. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 10:17 pm
The Keeneland September Yearling Sale is the largest and usually most expensive sale of thoroughbred yearlings in the world. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 5:00 am
The U.S. leads the world in vehicle deaths at 15.5 per 100,000 drivers. [read post]
15 Sep 2009, 4:32 am
Shaw. the world's fourth largest hedge fund, is opening an office in Dubai to tap public and private opportunities in the world's largest oil exporting region. [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 4:00 am
Istithmar World, the Dubai sovereign wealth fund whose holdings include Barneys New York, is halting investments as part of a restructuring that may result in the sale of the fund or its assets, Bloomberg News reported. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 12:30 am
Meanwhile today's Wall Street Journal reports that in Dubai, the world-wide financial slump has caused businesses to scale back on the elaborate iftars (meals to break the daily fast) that they have traditionally hosted for clients and potential business partners. [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 1:21 pm
When Turkish police arrested Maksym “Maksik” Yastremskiy — a Ukrainian wholesaler of stolen identity data — in July 2007, they didn’t just collar one of the most-wanted cybercriminals in the world. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 5:12 am
blawger Dan Hull, who told me about a call he received from a woman who explained that she was betrothed to the Prince of Dubai and was having a tiff with ... [read post]
