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Trowers pulls out of Riyadh as sole lawyer defects to alliance firm

I suppose we should clear up some of the factual inaccuracies in this story just for the sake of ensuring that the record is correct. It cannot be the case that Abbas Khan was frustrated at Trowers inability to redploy "another partner" to Riyadh because Trowers never had a partner in Riyadh to start with. Leroy Levy ran the show from Dubai and Adrian Creed from Abu Dhabi. Also hilarious that Mutawi thinks there are problems recruiting people into Riyadh. It only becomes a problem when you make the ones you have "redundant" to save the PEP of the magic 25. It would be nice if someone at Trowers told the truth. The Saudi association did not have the support of key partners in the Middle East, including Mutawi. The London partnership failed to heed warnings about the Saudi practice and the head of the international division had no interest in engaging with the Saudi practice whatsoever. The continual insistence from the leadership that this disaster is just a speed bump is nonsensical. Why would you be having discussions about recruitment into Saudi Arabia less than 12 months after the last redundancy exercise. How stupid does Trowers think people are.

23-Feb-2012

5:09 pm