“A good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape.”

OUR SERVICES

CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW
Corporate law and Commercial Law

Contracts, no doubt, are the basic foundation on which various business relationships...

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CIVIL TRANSACTIONS & TORTS
Civil Transactions and Torts

Civil torts are the breaches of civil duties not covered by specific contracts...

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FINTECH & FINANCIAL CRIMES
Fintect and Financial Crimes

Our services in this practice area encompasses defending individuals or corporates...

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WEALTH MANAGEMENT & WILL
Wealth Management and Will

UAE’s inheritance laws are governed by The Personal Affairs Law of No.28 of...

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MARITIME & ADMIRALTY LAWS
Maritime Law and Admiralty Law

Our team is equipped to handle Marine Admiralty matters which encompasses commerce...

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EMPLOYMENT LAWS
Employment Laws

Our lawyers at Emirates Lawyers & Solicitors have immense knowledge in the...

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Intellectual Property Rights

Our team assist and advise individual inventors, artists and entrepreneurs, public...

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ENERGY LAWS
Energy Laws

The Gulf region is one of the largest oil and gas producing regions of the world...

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CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE
Construction Law and Real Estate Laws

An informed and focused advice is indispensable in issues relating to the construction...

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LITIGATION ARBITRATION & ADR
Litigation Arbitration and ADR

A good lawyer can help you resolve the disputes for you in your favour but a smart...

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Corporate & Commercial Law

Corporate Law

Contracts, no doubt, are the basic foundation on which various business relationships are built. In the present financial, social, political, ethical and compliance settings, any business needs to have a strong and proper commercial and financial arrangement governed by terms and conditions which lays down the benefits and liabilities of the relationship and more importantly, the ways to protect against the downsides of such relationship. Emirates Lawyers & Solicitors advises our clients on a wide variety of commercial contracts, represent them in negotiations and draft, review and vet the contracts before its execution in any jurisdiction.

Corporate Law

Corporate Structuring: Our corporate team can assist you to set up your company in jurisdiction of your choice across the Middle East. We understand your business goals, operational requirements and maximize the benefits through best suited corporate structuring, corporate administration, management structuring, partnership deeds, shareholders agreement and other management contracts. We offer incorporation services in all major free zones, local jurisdictions & offshore/ international companies’ registries in UAE.

Corporate Administration: Amongst other things our services includes:

  • Interact directly with regulatory authorities on behalf of clients;
  • Maintain shareholders, directors and company secretary registers;
  • Attend board/shareholders meetings and take minutes;
  • Witness execution and certify documents as true copies.

We provide legal advisory services in both contentious and non-contentious, be it corporate governance or commercial matters. We advise and oversee M&A and/or corporate finance transactions as well.

Business Legal Consultancy: Emirates Lawyers & Solicitors also offers business legal consultancy services to assist you in minimizing, where possible, avoiding the risks of non-compliances. We offer quick and efficient solutions to fix compliance issues of our clients in order to prevent fall outs. Our services can be made available on monthly retainer basis or incidence basis.

Commercial Law

The Gulf region shall always remain as a vital region in commercial globe. Our team is well versed with the business practices and understand legal and regulatory environment of the United Arab Emirates in particular and Gulf region in general and can ensure our consultancy services to you in the most professional manner.

We handle both contentious and non-contentious commercial matters.

Commercial Law

OUR EXPERTISE

Our Commercial law practice includes:

  • Commercial disputes resolution;
  • Negotiating and drafting contracts;
  • Business laws;
  • Joint Ventures including cross border JVs;
  • Merger and Acquisitions;
  • Commercial Agencies;
  • Franchise Agreements;
  • Distribution Agreements;
  • Intellectual Property Rights;
  • Commercial Due Diligence.
  • Competition Law
  • Anti- dumping law
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Data Protection
  • Technology Laws

Commercial Law

Civil Transactions & Torts

Civil torts are the breaches of civil duties not covered by specific contracts. These are mainly the legal injuries which may be claimed in a civil court. Tort injuries may be physical, financial, emotional, as well as injuries to one's reputation or violations of rights. Civil torts can be intentional, negligence or strict liability torts.

Our team can assist you in any tort cause of action. We also offer pre litigation advisory services.

 Civil Transactions and Torts

Fintech & Financial Crimes

Our services in this practice area encompasses defending individuals or corporates against accusation of financial crimes and more. We can assist you with matters related to financial frauds, bribery, corruption, breach of trust which includes embezzlement of funds, money laundering, trade or financial sanctions, financial record keeping etc.

We offer advisory services to you to ensure compliance and to correct incidence of non- compliances. We can advise you on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and help them Combat Financial Terrorism (CFT) as per directives of Financial Services Authorities including Central Bank of U.A.E and other Regulatory Bodies internationally.

Fintech and Financial Crimes

Wealth Managemnt & Will

UAE’s inheritance laws are governed by The Personal Affairs Law of No.28 of 2005 (Personal Status Law) which enables Non-Muslim expats living in the UAE to apply native laws to distribute their assets in UAE. The UAE Civil Code also regulates this aspect of distribution of assets by executing a Will according to one’s wish. If Will is not executed by an expat and who dies intestate in his assets will be distributed as per Sharia Law irrespective of the fact whether the expat is a Muslim or non-Muslim.

 Wealth Management and Will

Our team can advise and handle your asset protection, tax planning, Wills, charitable giving, estate administration and powers of attorney. Emirates Lawyers & Solicitors can also offer services in matters of marriage, divorce and maintenance.

Maritime & Admiralty Law

Our team is equipped to handle Marine Admiralty matters which encompasses commerce, construction, ship building, ship recycling, insurance, savaging, sailing, sea transportation, financing and jurisdiction over coastal waters. We can promptly guide you through any local or international laws that are relevant to your shipping law matter.

Maritime and Admiralty Law

Our range of services includes:

  • Ship finance for new building and second-hand vessels;
  • Shipyard and container finance;
  • Syndications, structured finance and hire purchase arrangements
  • Ship sale and purchase;
  • Vessel registration;
  • Charter parties, new building and other contracts
  • Cargo Claims
  • Joint ventures;
  • Shipping projects;
  • General shipping and ship management
  • Shipbuilding and ship leasing disputes.

Maritime and Admiralty Law

Employment Law

Our lawyers at Emirates Lawyers & Solicitors have immense knowledge in the employment laws and regulations and the changing scenarios in the Middle East job market especially UAE. We advise companies (free zone & onshore local), institutions as well as individuals in various employment related matters in UAE.

Employment Law

OUR EXPERTISE

Our Commercial law practice includes:

  • Assist, draft and vet HR policies and ensuring compliance with the laws
  • Draft and review contracts like Service agreements, Employment contracts, secondment arrangements etc.
  • Advisory services on employment aspects of Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Legal advisory services to HR department / companies on matters of disciplinary action, grievances, final settlement, termination or severance agreements etc.
  • Advising on matters related to confidentiality, non-competition, trade secret and employment limitation issues.

Employment Law

Intellectual Property Rights

Our team assist and advise individual inventors, artists and entrepreneurs, public institutions, emerging companies, venture capital groups and large multinational corporations on intellectual property rights. We understand the client’s requirement and offer advice to protect their intellectual assets, investments, whether it is a work of art, a new device, a logo, an App etc. Our legal practices include all IP matters, with wider specialty in filing, registering, and prosecuting Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Designs, and Copyrights including renewals, licensing and enforcement.

Intellectual Property Rights

Energy Law

The Gulf region is one of the largest oil and gas producing regions of the world and the economy here is mostly nurtured by its energy industry. Our team handles matters related energy industries in UAE as well as energy related issues, from oil and gas (including oil sands and LNG) to power (including renewable energies like wind, hydro and biomass) and from pipelines energy services and infrastructure to utilities.

Oil & Gas: We offer advisory services on sales and purchase of oil & gas businesses both in offshore & onshore in the region. We can advise on energy supply chain- including upstream production and liquefaction, vessel transportation, long and short term LNG sales, downstream regasification and distribution.

Energy Law

Renewable Energy: We can handle and arrange environmental assessments, permits and licenses, assembly of land positions and siting, commercial contracts, project finance and structuring etc..

Our services include:

  • Project acquisition and financing
  • Site acquisitions and land leases
  • Project structuring and tax planning to optimize benefits of a project and employment arrangements
  • Project contracts, such as joint venture, power purchase, turbine supply, construction, operation and maintenance agreements
  • Design, development, construction and operation of wind, hydro-electric, biomass, waste- to-energy, run-of-river and other forms of renewable energy production facilities
  • Obtaining approvals government regulatory bodies and assisting with complex regulatory compliance
  • Development and commercialization of clean technologies

Construction & Real Estate

Construction

An informed and focused advice is indispensable in issues relating to the construction and infrastructure industry. Our team have extensive knowledge and experience to handle various matters in this sector

Construction and Real Estate

OUR EXPERTISE

Our Services Include:

  • Risk management;
  • Negotiation;
  • Contract drafting;
  • Procurement plans and contracting;
  • Documentation of project and tender;
  • Contract administration advice and assistance;
  • Preparing claims and offering assistance.

Construction and Real Estate

Real Estate

Our real estate practice covers Hotels/restaurants & Leisure, Educational establishments and Healthcare sectors. We advise individuals as well as Real Estate Agents, Mall Management Companies and Building. Our team handles some of the leading and most major real estate deals in UAE who is also maintaining specialized sub-groups in acquisitions and dispositions, condominium development and sales, financing, leasing, and municipal and property development to meet the individual needs of our clients. Also we represent our clients in all sale purchase transactions in real estate property including financial institutions, real estate investment, foundations, and offshore and foreign investors.

Litigation Arbitration & ADR

A good lawyer can help you resolve the disputes for you in your favour but a smart lawyer can foresee the forth coming disputes and advise you to avoid it and save your precious time and hard earned money. However, disputes are indispensable part of doing business. Our job as your smart lawyers is to resolve them for you in cost effective manner at the shortest time possible without any inconvenience to your business.

Alternative dispute resolution is a main practice in our firm and we believe Arbitration and other ADR means can help our clients save time, energy and money in resolving their issues especially when cross border transactions are involved. We always give priority to give optimized services in a cost effective and timely manner, and at the same time taking care of the client’s reputation. We can assure you innovative techniques of dispute resolution and also can employ strategies to maximize the prospects for a successful negotiation.

Litigation Arbitration and ADR