Sharq Law Firm, which has emerged as a pace setter in the local market, has opened a new office, Sharq Global, in the Qatar Financial Center (QFC) as part of its strategy to strengthen its operations. Sharq Global — which represents some of the biggest Qatari companies, ministries, government institutions and high networth individuals — is the first Qatari law firm to be registered with the QFC. “Through Sharq Global, we will be able to work on providing and creating new concepts upon which the promising future of the legal profession is established in Qatar and extend to the global arena,” its senior partner Rashid al-Saad said in the presence of QFC chief executive Yusuf Mohamed al-Jaida, QFC chief commercial officer Raed al-Emadi, QFC chief legal officer Nasser al-Taweel and other dignitaries. The development of legal engineering and provision of legal concierge services, as well as competing at the international and regional levels are all major routes in the five-year plan of action for Sharq Global Law Firm, through which it aspires to provide a professional, diverse, comprehensive and different legal services in style, quality and competitiveness at the international level. Stressing that it has a global vision that draws on the legacy of the national legal traditions, he said, with this it can compete at the international level to achieve and consolidate the concepts that elevate and improve the legal domain to occupy its due leading position among its counterparts at the international and regional levels. The law firm has introduced a Qatarisation programme, the first private Qatari legal firm to do so, aimed not only at attracting young Qatari lawyers and training them to become world class lawyers but also enable them to establish their career path, and encourage active participation of Qataris in the private sector. In delivering a seamless international service to clients, Sharq Law Firm — which operates regionally and internationally, with a vast network of law firms across the Middle East — works closely with other leading independent practices worldwide.