We are a translation agency in London with over 20 years of experience in the provision of legal translation services to law firms. We specialise in the languages of the Middle East, including Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Dari, Pashtu, Urdu, and Kurdish.
We are a full member of the UK Association of Translation Companies (ATC), with individual members of our team registered with the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIoL) and/or the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI).
The company is directed by Dr Mehran Taghvaipour who is a Chartered Linguist. He has been a member of the CIoL since 1999 and holds a BA degree in English Literature (Tehran), an MA degree in English Language Teaching (Tehran) and a PhD in Computational Linguistics (Essex). Mehran has been working as a Farsi translator in London since 1998 and has since held various managerial positions in London-based practices. He specialises in legal translation and teaches DPSI – Legal in collaboration with Middlesex University in London. He personally does or supervises all Farsi translation projects at Giraffe. In addition to legal translation, Mehran does literary translation as well and has so far translated a handful of short stories, published in the collection Perceived Differently and a novel entitled From the Devil, Learned and Burned.