Middle East firm Al Tamimi & Company has expanded its presence in Saudi Arabia to Jeddah with the hire of a former Baker Botts lawyer.
The new office is led by Sumit Soni, who joined Al Tamimi earlier this year. He was previously a special counsel at Baker Botts in Riyadh.
Al Tamimi’s Jeddah office will include lawyers from Saudi Arabia, elsewhere in the Middle East and the West and will be supported by the firm’s regional network.
Managing partner Husam Hourani said the firm would offer a full service to clients in Jeddah.
Al Tamimi is licensed to practise in its own name in Saudi Arabia, rather than operating through a local association.
The new office, the firm’s sixteenth, continues a wave of expansion for Al Tamimi. Earlier this year the firm agreed an association in Egypt (29 January 2015), while last November Hourani told The Lawyer Al Tamimi was examining the potential for expansion outside the Gulf (7 November 2014).