Robert Jordan will relocate to Baker Botts’ Dubai office later this year to head up the firm’s Middle East operations. 

Jordan, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks (October 2001 until October 2003), returned to the firm in April 2004 as a partner in its Dallas office.

Incumbent Middle East managing partner David Emmons, who presided over a period of solid growth for the firm including the opening of a new office in Abu Dhabi, the relocation of both its Dubai and Riyadh office and increases in lawyer headcount, will return to the firm’s Dallas office in the US summer.

The firm has had offices in the region since 2001 and now boasts over 20 lawyers in the region.

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