Commercial

The UAE’s dynamic business landscape demands proficient navigation and highly skilled legal counsel, especially when it comes to commercial law and resolving conflicts. With any business contract, even if it starts on solid ground, disputes can arise, be it between companies, individuals, or a mix of both.

Commercial disputes are a core part of our firm’s offering. Our team provides tailored legal advice for companies covering the full spectrum of commercial issues that businesses may encounter, harnessing their deep knowledge of the UAE onshore and offshore courts and arbitral institutions to guide clients on what can often be highly emotive and complex disagreements. These include agency agreements, distribution and franchise arrangements, network structuring, IP, outsourcing, and product distribution. 

We advise companies and individuals, including shareholders, directors, partners, investors, franchisors, and franchisees, among others. Our aim is to ensure our clients’ issues are resolved in the most cost-effective, practical, and commercially pragmatic way for their businesses, and our guidance to our clients in order to ensure that their legal and business goals and objectives are met. This means that when viable, employ mediation, promote settlements, or use ADR, although, if necessary, our business dispute lawyers provide effective, top-tier commercial litigation and legal representation before the UAE Courts.

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Representative Experience

  • Acted for a high-net-worth healthcare professional and entrepreneur in a USD 5 million+ complex and long-running shareholder accounting dispute arising from a profitable Dubai-based healthcare clinic, successfully guiding the client through mediation.
  • Represented an ultra-high-net-worth client in DIFC Court proceedings regarding the enforcement of an option right to transfer the entirety of a shareholding held by a nominee, seeking specific performance of the share transfer.
  • Defended a prominent UAE-based individual in high-stakes commercial litigation before the Dubai Courts, involving allegations of remitting AED 3 million+ by a UAE-based company in which the individual was a shareholder and investor.
  • Advised a petrochemical trader in a USD 20 million dispute concerning a Commercial Storage Agreement near the Port of Fujairah, relating to the provision of storage facilities and handling services for petrochemical products.
  • Represented the investment arm of a major Western government in a financing dispute, where the counterparty defaulted on repayment obligations and issued cheques with insufficient funds.
  • Acted for a UAE-based financial institution in a USD 4 million arbitration under the rules of the International Islamic Centre for Reconciliation and Arbitration, against a Bahrain-incorporated joint stock company concerning credit and debit card servicing and operations.
  • Represented an insurance intermediary for high-net-worth individuals in DIFC proceedings against a director, relating to loss of business opportunities and the termination of several agreements.
  • Acted for a global financial advisory company in a dispute over unpaid success fees under a contract where the firm advised on the sale of a company owned by two individuals.
  • Advised a luxury car manufacturer on contractual matters relating to the establishment of vehicle distribution agreements across the Middle East and Africa.