Sir Anthony Evans has the looks, the persona and the easy smile of a favourite uncle. Yet beneath the white, slightly wavy hair and the avuncular manner is “a legal brain as sharp as you are likely to find anywhere in the world,” a barrister in London has said.
Sir Anthony is likely to need every bit of that grey matter as he rises to his latest challenge. He is chairman of a special tribunal set up to deal with financial claims arising from the financial woes of Dubai World.
Nervous stock markets around the world had been looking to see how Dubai would handle the group’s huge debts. After Abu Dhabi weighed in with US$10 billion (Dh36.73bn) on Monday, Sir Anthony got the call to sort out the nuts and bolts.
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