Richard Ernest

Richard Ernest is an English law-qualified solicitor whose practice focuses on banking and finance, principally advising borrowers/investors (but also lenders) on all aspects of finance transactions. This includes the financing of domestic and cross-border acquisitions and general corporate lending.  In addition to corporate finance, he is experienced in Islamic and conventional leveraged and structured finance, project and ECA-backed finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, and restructurings and workouts.

Mr. Ernest is ranked by Chambers Global 2019 as a leading lawyer for the United Arab Emirates: Banking & Finance.  The publication quotes clients as praising his technical proficiency and “good client manner”.  In addition, Mr. Ernest is recommended by Legal 500 EMEA 2017 for UAE: Banking & Finance and also ranked by IFLR1000 2019 as ‘highly regarded’ for UAE: Banking.

Prior to joining Rimon, Mr. Ernest was a Partner at Gibson Dunn and he practiced with a magic circle firm, working in the London, Moscow and Frankfurt offices from 1997.  He relocated to Abu Dhabi in January 2008 to help establish that office.

He speaks English, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian.