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Simmons cites market turbulence as it trims Abu Dhabi and Dubai

A very interesting comment is that. I always found the layer of bureacracy at Trowers in Dubai to be virtually useless, especially the marketing head who did no marketing. The HR guy was known to be on a junket to top up his pension and couldn't even manage the "redundancies" very well despite the firm having a major clean out every two years. I could never understand why these two individuals had their faces on the website under the Dubai office "key contacts" when they were not lawyers. The small office model will always struggle in Saudi Arabia unless it has committed lawyers on the ground and solid support from the mother ship. From what I could see, Norton Rose didn't have either, Trowers had a bit of commitment on the ground but no support from London, and Simmons has tried to do Saudi by remote control from Dubai and achieved the odd decent piece of work which has not been consolidated. The Saudi market won't miss any of them as everyone knows the firms that are serious about Saudi and they get the good work.

24-Jan-2012

6:50 am