Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, along with the Republic of Djibouti, has been ordered by a British high court judge to pay Abdourahman Boreh the equivalent of $1.3 million in fees after the firm’s Dubai partner, Peter Gray, was found to have knowingly provided false information regarding the Djibouti businessman’s alleged involvement in a 2009 grenade attack.
The fine—which was first reported by UK publication Legal Business and confirmed by Boreh’s attorney, Ben Davies of Byrne and Partners—follows Justice Julian Flaux’s judgment last week that lifted an order to freeze a reported $100 million in Boreh’s assets after the judge found that Gray failed to correct information he knew to be inaccurate. (Flaux kept in place a “less-intrusive” proprietary injunction that applies to Boreh’s shareholdings in Horizon Djibouti Holdings Limited.)
