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Clifford Chance (CC) is to launch an office in Qatar as the law firm ramps up its presence in the Middle East to take advantage of the region's growth potential.The magic circle firm is Replica rolex day date ii president watch rrx0904059 to open for business in the Qatar Financial Centre in Doha - subject to the approval of its licence - in the coming months.The office will be headed by Dubai projects partner Richard Parris, who is relocating to the region to lead the new venture.Parris will be supported by Dubai banking and finance lawyer Greg Englefield, who has previously spent time on secondment with a local Qatar law firm.Parris said: "We have been carefully evaluating the opening of a Qatar office for over a year and we feel that we are now in a position to do so.

"The growth forecast for Qatar is tremendous. It is estimated by some analysts that it will be as high as 20% over the next year and will be in double digits for the years following, and so replica Rolex Datejust Turn-O-Graph 'Thunderbird' watc felt that this was the right time to continue to develop and expand our Middle East presence."CC has been active in Qatar since the 1980s and has an existing base of clients covering international banks, financial institutions and corporate entities based in the region.Replica Rolex day-date-ii president watch rrx0904048 of the launch came in the same week that it emerged CC had ended its 'best friends' relationship with leading India law firm AZB & Partners as hopes of the Indian legal market opening up to foreign law firms in the near future fade.

The two firms decided to downgrade their best friends relationship to a looser referral link at a meeting earlier this month.Family is clearly important to [Stuart Popham], who in the last replica Rolex Datejust Turn-O-Graph 'Thunderbird' watc has also become a grandfather - a title he is struggling to come to terms with. "Despite obviously being far too young, my son has a daughter, so for the last year I have gone around telling people I have a child who's got a child, and when people say, 'so you're a grandparent,' I say no!" he jokes.Popham was offered a training contract at CC legacy practice Clifford Turner in 1976, starting out in the litigation department, although that was not where he ended up building his practice. "