Navigating the UAE's evolving regulatory landscape with precision and practical clarity.
The team is assembled around the matter, and it stays on the file.
Our Regulatory & Compliance pillar advises on data protection, corporate tax and sector licensing, which is where most of the UAE's recent regulatory change has landed. The work is practical: what a rule actually requires, what has to change inside the business, and what happens if it doesn't. We have advised government entities, multinational corporations and regional businesses on UAE regulatory requirements.
Compliance, governance and regulatory reporting under the UAE Commercial Companies Law, for onshore and free-zone entities. We handle it across multinational entity portfolios as well as standalone groups, keeping to the annual cycle each registry works to.
Read the full profile →Compliance advisory, gap analysis, contract drafting and implementation support under the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021), covering employment data, healthcare data, platform data and cross-border transfers.
Read the full profile →We advise companies subject to UAE, US, EU and UK export controls and sanctions. Licensing, restricted-party screening, ownership and control analysis, and the compliance programme behind it.
Read the full profile →Corporate-tax compliance, VAT advisory and dealings with the FTA. We also run tax disputes through the UAE courts, from first instance to appeal and cassation.
Read the full profile →We take healthcare operators, diagnostics laboratories, telemedicine providers and life-sciences businesses through UAE licensing and approvals, under DOH, DHA, MOHAP or a free-zone health regime. The compliance advice continues after the licence is granted.
Read the full profile →We draft employment contracts and advise under the UAE Labour Law and the separate DIFC and ADGM regimes. We enforce restrictive covenants and run labour claims to Federal Supreme Court cassation.
Read the full profile →We draft and advise on legislation, regulations and policy frameworks for government entities and regulators.
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.
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