Private Client
As seasoned experts, our practitioners prioritise resolution in sensitive private and professional matters, aiming for the effective and cost-conscious protection of business interests or personal affairs. Acting as our clients trusted counsel, we provide strategic, creative, and bespoke guidance with succession and estate planning, private wealth, and family law issues.
We assist entrepreneurs and high-net-worth families globally with managing private wealth, business, family and succession planning issues. Our services encompass advice including regulatory and compliance, business structures, trusts and wills, charter agreements, and corporate governance, as well as disputes concerning agreements, partnerships, and investors.
We also advise on family law matters, whether divorce, custody, alimony, or maintenance claims disputes. We have experts on both local Sharia laws and international disputes, which our expatriate clients find invaluable when it comes to advising and representing them in personal status matters before the UAE courts. We also handle criminal charges for individuals and businesses, and we offer private services, enabling us to provide private clients with a full-service solution.
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.
- An individual shareholder in enforcing their rights in a claim before the DIFC Courts pursuant to a shareholders agreement relating to share ownership in a multimillion AED company.
- A UAE-based private individual regarding his claims against a large UAE bank concerning 32 unauthorised transactions totalling AED 9.47 million that were carried out on the client’s elite account without his knowledge and/or consent.
- A notable UAE family with multiple businesses on the legal structuring and transition to the next generation. Devised an innovative corporate structure that did not affect the performance and success of the operating companies’ business.
- A family dispute in Sharjah relating to an inheritance case where the deceased owned 80 properties and bequeathed an AED 500 million inheritance.
- A UAE resident against charges of money laundering and tax evasion. The case was won, and the UAE authorities rejected an extradition request for our client citing a lack of sufficient evidence.
- A Saudi private client on behalf of a UAE resident, originally from Saudi Arabia, charged with a drug-related offense, which initially resulted in a 15-year prison sentence. Due to our highlighting of procedural errors committed by the police during the investigation and other factors we successfully got his conviction overturned.
- A HNWI on a sensitive case whereby they USD 20 million into an account with a registered company who then refused to release the funds on request.
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