Maritime Arbitration

The firm represents owners, charterers, traders and financiers in shipping disputes, principally under LMAA terms in London and before the UAE courts on enforcement.

Compliance and Data Privacy

We advise boards, family offices, and management teams on the governance and compliance obligations that keep a company defensible: anti-money laundering frameworks, data protection compliance, corporate secretarial administration, and boardroom conflicts of interest.

Cybersecurity

The firm advises on the legal response to cyber incidents and personal data breaches affecting UAE-connected businesses. The work is time-critical, and the first decisions are usually taken before the technical picture is complete.

Enforcement and Asset Tracing

Obtaining an award or judgment is not the same as being paid. The firm acts at the enforcement stage, including recognition proceedings, asset investigation, and the interim relief needed to stop assets moving before execution.

Private Capital

Private capital markets are unique, and we are deeply specialized in balancing risk feasibility across co-investments, growth capital, and joint ventures.

International Arbitration

Fareya Azfar & Araoui LLP represents principals in complex commercial and investor-state disputes across institutional and ad hoc proceedings. We have experience across ICC, LCIA, DIAC, and Arb AD arbitrations, as well as bespoke tribunal procedures tailored to specific transaction structures.

International and Offshore Disputes

Our international litigation practice is structured around managing parallel proceedings—coordinating domestic and international litigation simultaneously.

Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

We act for shareholders and the entities themselves on the acquisition of assets and shareholdings, mergers, divestments, dispositions and capitalisations, and on restructuring mandates including entity selection, operating and partnership agreements, and governance matters.

Venture Capital

Growth-stage and venture financings move fast, involve asymmetric information between founders and investors, and often set precedents that later rounds will follow. We advise both founders and investors through this stage, from seed and Series A through late-stage growth rounds.

Shipping Finance

We advise shipowners to access funds available from private investors through the use of joint ownership ventures, finance leases, or structured financing transactions where investors can take junior and subordinate positions.

Complex Litigation

Dedicated to excellence in high-stakes commercial disputes, including trials, appeals, arbitrations, and investigations. Our practice spans local, offshore and multi-jurisdictional disputes arising from joint ventures, M&A transactions, long-term supply and distribution arrangements, shareholder agreements, and foreign investment.

Corporate Disputes

Our corporate litigation and governance practice focuses on complex corporate and business disputes, acting for individuals and entities in shareholder rights claims, derivative actions, fraud and forensic investigations, deadlocks, squeeze-outs and monetary claims.

Early Case Assessments

We like nothing better than an early and successful exit from the litigation process.