Rindala Beydoun was born and raised in Lebanon, but at the age of 17 she made her way to the University of Michigan, then Duke Law. In 2000 she packed her bags to head back east, this time for Dubai, and she's been in the booming, oil-rich emirate ever since. After stints with a local firm, in-house with MasterCard and as a partner at Vinson & Elkins, Beydoun was named managing partner of Latham & Watkins' new Dubai office this February -- the first of the firm's three new offices in the Middle East. ...