Representative matters
A selection of recent matters across DIAC, arbitrateAD, DIFC, ADGM, onshore courts and foreign-judgement enforcement. Client identities, transaction values and counterparties are anonymised; jurisdictional and procedural details are accurate.
The capability descriptions below set out the kinds of UAE legal work the firm is set up to handle. They are scope statements, not claims about specific past matters. Real anonymised case experience is discussed under engagement-letter confidentiality once a conflict check has been completed and an NDA signed.
The firm is set up to act for contractors and employers in DIAC arbitrations arising from UAE construction projects — prolongation and quantum claims, FIDIC-derived bespoke EPC contracts, sole or three-arbitrator panels under the 2022 DIAC Rules.
The firm advises on the recognition of foreign commercial judgements through the DIFC Courts as a conduit jurisdiction, with onward execution into onshore Dubai assets via the 2018 MoU between the DIFC and Dubai Courts.
The firm acts in commercial debt-recovery work across Dubai and Abu Dhabi onshore courts, with co-ordinated parallel attachment proceedings against UAE-domiciled obligors — bank-account, share and registered-property attachments.
The firm advises on the UAE arm of cross-border acquisitions — SCA-cleared restructuring, regulator engagement, and share-transfer mechanics across emirate licensing authorities.
The firm represents ADGM-licensed financial services firms and senior executives in employment, restrictive-covenant and post-termination matters before the ADGM Court of First Instance.
The firm advises brand owners on co-ordinated civil-criminal-customs strategies against counterfeiters operating across Dubai and the Northern Emirates — customs seizures, civil injunctions and criminal complaints.
The firm advises upstream and oilfield-services counterparties in arbitrations under the arbitrateAD Rules (and legacy ADCCAC matters) — including scope-variation, consequential-loss and FIDIC-derived contract issues.
The firm acts for developers, sub-developers, JOPOAs and property managers in multi-phase master-community matters — service-charge enforcement, common-area defect claims, master community declaration interpretation.
The firm advises on UAE sukuk issuances — multi-tranche Wakala and Murabaha structures, listings on Nasdaq Dubai and DFM, with Sharia approval coordinated across regional Sharia Supervisory Boards.
The firm designs DIFC and ADGM Foundation structures for HNW UAE families — including holding companies, prescribed-company subsidiaries and inheritance overlays. Cross-border coordination with home-jurisdiction tax counsel.
The firm provides UAE-side counsel for investor-state arbitrations under bilateral investment treaties, in coordination with international treaty-arbitration co-counsel — jurisdictional, procedural and substantive support.
The firm advises on parallel licensing strategy across VARA (Dubai), FSRA (ADGM) and DFSA (DIFC) — including the structuring decisions that determine which licence categories are optimal for each component of a platform's roadmap.
All matters are anonymised to protect client confidentiality. Where a counterparty or transaction value would identify the client, those details are omitted or directional. We can discuss matter-specific experience under appropriate confidentiality arrangements at the engagement stage.
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