Space and Aviation.
The law governing space in this region is still being written. We have worked on both sides of it.
Most legal work follows the law. In space, the law is still arriving, and some of it arrives because someone drafted it.
There is now a body of space law in the Gulf where fifteen years ago there was none. National legislation, licensing conditions, insurance floors, registration requirements, and a liability architecture reaching back to the international treaty framework. It is being built quickly, and it is being built while the activities it governs are already under way.
We have worked at both ends of that process. On the drafting side, the real question is whether the regime a government wants can be administered by the body that will have to administer it. On the operator side, licence conditions have to sit consistently with the contracts, and the obligations outlast the approval. Aviation is older and more settled and our work in it is regulatory, but it is the same discipline: an approvals regime run by a technical authority, where the outcome turns on how well the applicant understood what was being asked.
“We have drafted the framework a regulator administers and advised the operators who have to satisfy one. It changes how you read a licensing condition.”
Where this sector meets our practice.
§ Practice register · Sector 01Regulatory & Compliance.
- Legislative DraftingPrimary space legislation and the implementing regulations beneath it.
- Corporate ComplianceLicence conditions carried into the compliance cycle after authorisation.
- Export ControlControlled-technology and cross-border transfer questions in satellite work.
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