Financial services recruiter McGregor Boyall has opened a Dubai office in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), to be led by new hire Richard Lett.

The new base serves as the headquarters for its Middle East operations.

Lett has 15 years’ financial services recruitment experience in London and the Middle East, and a degree in Arabic, with Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

Lett says: “With the DIFC as a key regional financial services centre, we feel we will be able to support the region’s growing demand for financial and professional services recruitment.”

The firm announced the opening of a new office in Edinburgh last week.