The hardest part of an export-control regime is rarely the rule itself — it is the documented decision the rule requires you to make.

Export-control and sanctions exposure typically lands inside an otherwise routine commercial transaction — a distributor appointment, a re-export, a payment routed through a UAE subsidiary, a counterparty whose ownership chain crosses a sanctioned jurisdiction. Our advisory work focuses on identifying that exposure early and papering the decision so that it survives later scrutiny.

We advise on classification and licensing, re-export risk, restricted-party screening, and ownership-and-control analysis where US primary sanctions concepts surface in structures that are otherwise UAE-domestic.

Programme design and testing — policies, training, internal audits, and voluntary disclosure mechanics where breaches are identified — sit alongside the transaction-by-transaction advisory work. Both are calibrated to what the client's board and external auditors will actually need to see.