We represent clients during English and Arabic proceedings in the UAE and abroad, including arbitrations that involve the Dubai International ArbitrationCentre,the Abu Dhabi Conciliation and Commercial ArbitrationCentre.

Our team and firm have full rights of audience in the UAE, and specifically in the Court of First Instance, Court of Appeal, and Court of Cassation. With local advocates, as well and native Arabic speaking senior associates, our firm is able to conduct both criminal and civil litigation proceedings in Arabic. Our firm has further rights of Audience in DIFC and ADGM. Dealing mostly in areas such as a white collar crime, anti bribery, fraud and regulatory offences, contractual disputes and derivative claims, our team has extensive experience in acting on behalf of multinational groups and local corporations.

Our corporate and commercial practice advises and facilitates our clients commercial activities in a wide range of industries and in fact it prides itself for ingenuity, creativity and bespoke drafting skills on commercial agreement providing simple and effective solutions for any level of complexity while meticulously addressing sector specific particularities, whether that be technology, construction, real estate services, energy, trade for international and domestic clients, as well as handling general corporate and transactional work.

We advise on all aspects of UAE labor law and provide legal support in the structuring, management and organization of the workforce.We also work closely with our disputeresolution team on employment disputes before the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, UAE courts, and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).

Our team has extensive experience in the financial services sphere, specifically involved with regulation in the DIFC and SCA, as well and the DMCC. Our experience includes corporate, commercial and trade finance; structured finance; conventional capital markets; financial services regulatory and legislative compliance; investment funds and Islamic finance.

We support clients with patents, trademarks, copyrights, designsregistrations in the UAE and in Europe and help effectively prepare, process and register intellectual property. We create When it comes to enforcement, our IP lawyers work closely with our dispute resolution team should a potential infringement or dispute arise. We have extensive experience in enforcing rights against counterfeiters, forgers, and copiers as well as executing proceedings with the relevant government bodies / departments and the UAE courts.

We provide legal support across project lifecycles, from initial land acquisition to corporate structuring and joint ventures, project financing, construction, development, sub-division, titling and leasing. We work with landlords and tenants on leasing issuesarising from industrial estates, warehousing and other commercial uses. We have also advised master developers, sub-developers, investment funds and Islamic banks on large-scale, mixed-useintegrated tourism, commercial hotel, retail and residential developments.

In accordance with recent legislative changes, our tax advisors work in house and concurrently with external advisors to advise organizations with the legal and commercial implications of the new. ValueAddedTax (VAT) and tax laws regimes in the UAE and wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), in accordance with the GCC VAT Framework Agreement.

We advise on legal, regulatory, transactional and policy issues involving cryptocurrency and digital tokens, as well as the blockchain and the distributed ledger technologies on which they are based. Our diverse experience across practice areas gives us the practical knowledge necessary to advise clients on the emerging trends and developments particular to each industry and specifically we have been involved in the new implementation of rules by VARA and the DMCC for legislation surrounding cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, metaverse, blockchain technology innovative tools and web3.