Technology, Media and Telecommunications.
Data, licensing, IP, and regulatory counsel for TMT businesses operating in the UAE.
What you transmit, license, distribute, or store is governed by overlapping regulators — and the law is rewritten on a year-by-year cycle.
TMT mandates in the UAE sit at the intersection of multiple authorities — TRA on telecoms and spectrum, CBUAE on financial-services-adjacent platform activity, SCA on platform-classification questions, MoCA on media distribution, and the UAE PDPL1 on personal-data processing across all of them. Most platform clients touch at least three of these regimes simultaneously.
Our recurring work shapes around DPAs and embedded privacy schedules2, telecoms and concession licensing3, media-distribution rights and cross-border content frameworks, and the platform-services agreements that knit it all together4. The legal stack moves quickly; the firm's posture is to keep up rather than chase.
“Platform regulation is rewritten every year. The advice that survived last year is not the advice that survives this year.”
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