Commercial
The UAE's dynamic business landscape demands proficient navigation and highly skillful legal counsel especially when it comes to resolving conflicts. With any commercial agreement, 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 advice covering the full spectrum of commercial issues that businesses may encounter, harnessing their deep knowledge of the UAE onshore of 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, we will provide effective, top-tier legal representation before the UAE Courts.
Representative Experience
- A high-net-worth healthcare professional and entrepreneur on a USD 5 million + long-running and unresolved complex accounting shareholder dispute, arising out of a highly profitable healthcare clinic established in Dubai, whereby we guided our client towards and through a successful mediation.
- An ultra-high-net-worth client in DIFC court proceedings in relation to an option right to transfer the entirety of a shareholding, which was being held on the client’s behalf by a nominee shareholder. The claim sought specific performance of the share transfer.
- A very prominent UAE-based individual in a high-stakes commercial litigation case before the Dubai Court, who was accused of remitting AED 3 million + by a UAE-based company of which they were a shareholder and investor.
- A petrochemical trader on a USD 20 million dispute concerning a Commercial Storage Agreement, under which the Respondent was to supply our client with storage facilities and storage-related handling services for petrochemical products near the Port of Fujairah.
- An investment arm of a major western government on a dispute concerning financing, whereby the investor reneged on its repayment obligation and provided cheques with insufficient balance as set out in their agreement.
- A UAE-based financial institution on a USD 4 million dispute against a joint stock company incorporated in Bahrain, regarding an agreement for the service and operation of credit and debit cards, under the Arbitration Rules of the International Islamic Centre for Reconciliation and Arbitration.
- An insurance intermediary for high-net-worth individuals in DIFC proceedings commenced against a director in relation to loss of business opportunities and the termination of various agreements.
- A global financial advisory company on a dispute in relation to the non-payment of success fees, specifically concerning a contract wherein our client was the financial advisor for two individuals in relation to the sale of their company.
- A luxury car manufacturer on issues relating to their agreements when establishing the distribution of vehicles across the Middle East and Africa.
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