King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has hired Glen Lovell as a partner in the firm’s Riyadh office from Al Tamimi.

Lovell’s Saudi Arabia experience includes banking and finance, corporate structuring, corporate commercial, dispute resolution, government procurement, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. 

Lovell’s hire follows close on the heels of a series of recent global partner promotions at KWM, with six lawyers promoted to partnership in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East, 20 in China and 12 in Australia. In addition, the firm also recently added partners Gabriel Boghossian and Peter Bullock in London and Anthony Wan in Hong Kong.

 

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