Private Client

Our team offers strategic, tailored, and sensitive advice for personal and professional issues to secure client business and personal endeavours in a swift but effective manner. As trusted advisers, our private client lawyers advise clients on both succession and estate planning matters, including in the context of private wealth management, as well as family law concerns.

We support entrepreneurs and high-net-worth families globally in managing private wealth, business structures, and family succession planning. We offer private client services, such as regulatory and compliance advice, trust and wills, charterparty agreements, corporate governance, and disputes relating to agreements, partnership, or investor disputes.

For family law issues, our private family lawyers provide advice in divorce and custody, alimony, and maintenance cases with a sound knowledge of the domestic Sharia laws and international legal principles. This double-pronged approach is especially beneficial for clients who are expatriates and have personal status issues pending before the UAE courts. Additionally, as a leading private client law firm, we handle criminal matters for individuals and businesses, offering a full-service solution to private clients seeking comprehensive legal support. Our private wealth lawyers and wealth management lawyers ensure that every client receives expert representation and tailored advice suited to their circumstances.

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Representative Experience

  • High-Net-Worth Healthcare Entrepreneur: Advised a client in respect of a lengthy and complex accounting and shareholder dispute for a Dubai-based healthcare clinic, with a value in excess of USD 5 million, resulting in a successful mediation.
  • Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individual: Acted for a client in DIFC court proceedings relating to an option to transfer all of the shareholding held by a nominee shareholder, which were successfully brought effectively seeking specific performance.
  • Prominent UAE-Based Individual: Defended a shareholder and investor in high-stakes commercial litigation in Dubai involving alleged remittance of AED 3 million+ by a UAE-based company.
  • Individual Shareholder: Enforced rights under a shareholders’ agreement in a DIFC Court claim concerning share ownership in a multimillion-AED company.
  • UAE Private Individual: Pursued claims against a major UAE bank over 32 unauthorised transactions totaling AED 9.47 million on the client’s elite account.
  • Notable UAE Family: Advised on corporate structuring and succession planning across multiple family-owned businesses, devising innovative structures to transition to the next generation without impacting operational performance.
  • Family Inheritance Dispute, Sharjah: Successfully dealt with an intricate inheritance case concerning 80 properties and a deceased estate of AED 500 million.
  • UAE Resident: Defended in a money laundering and tax evasion case – case closed due to no evidence, the UAE authority did not issue an arrest warrant, opposing the extradition request on account of lack of evidence.
  • Saudi Private Client: Acted for a UAE resident, born in Saudi Arabia, on 15 years imprisonment imposed for a drug offence; conviction overturned because of procedural irregularities.
  • High-Net-Worth Individual: Successfully concluded a delicate matter relating to USD 20 million, and prevented the release of such against one of its registered companies.