Gordon advises on the full spectrum of employment, incentive, and business immigration law issues throughout the employment life cycle with a particular focus on disputes, whether before the UAE or DIFC Courts. With respect to the latter, Gordon is a DIFC-registered practitioner with full rights of audience. A key part of Gordon’s practice involves compensation and benefits advice where he advises across all sectors and with a specific focus on banking, financial services, and technology. In 2020, Gordon was elected to the Supervisory Board of the DIFC DEWS (DIFC Employee Workplace Savings) Plan as a DIFC employer representative, a post he holds to the current date.

Gordon has worked in the Middle East since 2011 after previously working with a leading UK law firm, acting for a wide range of blue-chip clients for whom he appeared before Employment Tribunals throughout the UK. Prior to a career in law, Gordon spent several years in financial services.

Gordon is a regular speaker via UAE media outlets and at industry events and has contributed to a number of significant legal publications. He is the first and only ‘Star’ ranked UAE employment practitioner with Chambers and Partners and a ‘Leading Individual’ with Legal 500, with the former noting the following client feedback within its 2024 publication:

• “Gordon is unfailingly professional and helpful. His advice is practical and easily digestible. He is responsive and shows commercial awareness.”

• “Gordon is outstanding. He is very responsive and very experienced. He has been engaged in every aspect of employment law in the UAE since the DIFC started. I rate him as outstanding.”