We are delighted to announce the launch of IFLR Middle East Awards 2025, celebrating excellence in legal innovation across the GCC and Egypt.
As ever, IFLR will be celebrating the region's most legally innovative cross-border deals from the past year, as well as the most outstanding law firms, in-house legal teams and individual lawyers of the past year.
· Submission deadline: June 30 2025
· Shortlist publication: August 2025
· Awards ceremony: October 2025, Dubai
The full categories, criteria and research methodology are detailed in the Awards Summary. All entries must be uploaded to the PORTAL by June 30 2025.
Award categories include deal, firm and team awards, as well as accolades for rising stars, lifetime achievement, and in-house teams and lawyers. The awards will also recognise outstanding tech innovation and market-leading work on ESG, policy and regulation.
This year, given the region's increasingly developed tax landscape, IFLR is also partnering with ITR World Tax to recognise the region's leading tax practices and practitioners, with the winners to be announced in Dubai.
For questions about the research, please contact James Wilson.
For queries about business development and commercial opportunities related to the awards, please contact Emily Kyriacou.
About IFLR awards
IFLR's awards celebrate the law firms, legal teams and lawyers at the leading edge of the market, setting standards and breaking new ground.
Central to the awards are the deal of the year categories, where IFLR focuses exclusively on showcasing legal innovation in cross-border transactions. The awards will recognise all the key parties that helped get innovative deals over the line. In recognising legal innovation, IFLR strives to highlight work that has improved and brought certainty to the cross-border investment environment.
Only deals that reached financial close between July 1 2024 and June 30 2025 are considered.
While playing a leading role on shortlisted transactions is a key factor behind all firm, team and individual awards, IFLR works seamlessly with IFLR1000 to harness its broad market research to help inform decision making.
In all cases, IFLR considers the sophistication and complexity of the work and the impact of the legal innovation, as well as contextual challenges in execution. Size, volume, and media coverage play no role in decision making.
