Legal Support

Legal needs rarely arrive one at a time. A business setting up needs its shareholder agreement drafted and its employment contracts aligned with UAE labour law, while the family behind it needs a registered will and a power of attorney that will be accepted where it is used. Each is a separate discipline, and often a separate firm.

The network covers:

• Corporate and M&A — company structuring, shareholder agreements, acquisitions and disposals.
• Commercial — contracts, commercial agency and distribution, and the terms a business trades on.
• Employment and incentives — employment contracts, workplace policies, end-of-service entitlements and employee incentive schemes.
• On-demand counsel — ongoing legal support for businesses without an in-house legal team.
• Banking, finance and regulation — lending and facility documentation, fund registration, and licensing with the UAE's financial regulators.
• Data privacy — compliance with federal, DIFC and ADGM data protection rules.
• Property — conveyancing in the UAE, the UK, Spain, Portugal and Greece, with escrow where a transaction needs it.
• Wills, estates and succession — registered wills, powers of attorney, probate, trusts and foundations.
• Disputes — arbitration and litigation, including in the DIFC and ADGM courts.

Jurisdiction matters as much as discipline. The UAE's federal and emirate courts sit alongside the DIFC and ADGM, which apply their own common-law rules in English. Which system governs a contract, an employment relationship or an estate depends on where the parties are and what the documents say.