Our Corporate & Transactions pillar advises on the full lifecycle of commercial activity, from incorporation and entity structuring through to complex cross-border deals. We work with regional conglomerates, international investors, financial institutions, and family offices navigating the UAE's commercial and free zone landscape with the discipline that demanding mandates require.
Formation, governance and day to day advisory for companies operating across the UAE mainland, ADGM and DIFC. We handle incorporation and shareholder arrangements at the outset, then restructuring and complex commercial work as the business grows.
Read the full profile →We run the diligence, structure the deal and see it through to completion on acquisitions, disposals and secondary transactions involving UAE targets and counterparties elsewhere in the GCC or further afield. That includes deals that complete in stages, turn on an earn-out, or run through a platform.
Read the full profile →Establishment, licensing, structuring and ongoing governance for entities across ADGM, DIFC, DAFZA, JAFZA, DDA, DMCC, DWTCA and other UAE free zones. We also build the combined mainland and free-zone structures that most operating groups end up needing.
Read the full profile →Loan documentation, security structuring and facility advisory for lenders and borrowers across the UAE, bilateral and syndicated, conventional and Islamic, with security packages built for the realities of UAE enforcement.
Read the full profile →Sharia-compliant structures including murabaha, ijara, mudaraba, wakala, sukuk, foundation-based wealth structures and tokenised asset arrangements. We take each of them from initial design through Sharia-board engagement to documentation and execution.
Read the full profile →Acquisition, disposal, development structuring and leasehold advisory for commercial and residential real estate across the UAE. We act on freehold and leasehold, for developers and occupiers, and on tenancy disputes when they arise.
Read the full profile →Registration, protection, licensing and enforcement of trade marks, patents and copyright for businesses operating across the UAE and the wider GCC and MENA region, with coordination across jurisdictions where a brand needs it.
Read the full profile →Data protection, product and platform contracting, technology company structuring, and AI governance.
Read profile →Licensing, laboratory and clinical operations, product registration, and health data for operators and life sciences businesses.
Read profile →Energy M&A, joint ventures and structuring, with claims work down the contracting chain.
Read profile →Construction contracts, claims and disputes for contractors, in arbitration and before the onshore courts.
Read profile →Foundation instruments, cross-jurisdiction holding structures, succession, and family governance for families and family offices.
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