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Construction Arbitration

We resolve high-value construction and engineering disputes across the UAE and wider region - representing contractors, employers, and government bodies in EPC delay claims, de-scoping disputes, performance bond calls, and disputes under FIDIC and bespoke forms of contract.

Shareholder and Joint Venture Disputes

We act for shareholders, partners and joint venture investors in disputes over governance, control, and exit - minority oppression, breach of fiduciary duty, disputed valuations, and the termination or unwinding of joint ventures.

Crises Management and Strategic Response

We help clients determine what has happened, what legal obligations are engaged, which notifications are required, which communications are commercially protective, and how to preserve privilege, evidence and recovery options.

International Arbitration

We will advise you through all phases of the most complex and demanding commercial disputes —advising on drafting arbitration clauses, developing dispute resolution strategies, conducting arbitration proceedings and hearings and seeking recourse in national courts when necessary, concerning enforcement of arbitration agreements, awards or provisional relief.

Cyber secuity and Data Breach

We have been handling cases of data security breaches in the UAE for over ten years, representing, advising, and leading investigations with affected parties to ring fence, allocate, and demarcate liabilities.

From F&B multinational entities to AI firms, we have experience advising on data security issues, and navigating post breach crises relating to cross-border transfers of data, governed by varying data protection and privacy laws.

DIFC and ADGM Litigation

We represent claimants and defendants in commercial, corporate and investment disputes before the DIFC and ADGM Courts. Our work commonly involves transactions structured through multiple agreements and entities, parties or assets located outside the relevant free zone, and overlapping questions of court jurisdiction, arbitration and enforcement.

Enforcement and Asset Tracing

A favourable judgment or award does not by itself secure recovery. The enforceability of the decision depends on where the debtor’s assets are located, who legally owns or controls those assets, and which court has authority to order execution against them.

Party domicile, asset location and ownership are all critical considerations for ensuring that legal victories translate into commercial victories as well.

We advise clients on the enforceability of judgments before proceedings even start, assessing which jurisdictions offer practical recovery and which present obstacles that require alternative strategies or negotiated resolution.

Maritime Arbitration

We also regularly act for shipowners, maritime operators and investors in disputes involving charter parties, indemnities, insurance, terminal agreements, tariffs, master service agreements, maritime liens, salvage, general average claims, and bills of lading. We have won numerous arbitrations in London and UAE, both institutional and under LMAA rules.

Early Case Assessments

Disputes are ultimately a business problem, not merely a legal one. Clients must decide whether to pursue, defend, or settle a dispute often without clear visibility into cost, timeline, and realistic commercial outcome. At the heart of our strategy for legal and commercial victories winning complex is Early Case Assessment (“ECA”); a systematic approach to evaluating the strengths and weaknesses, risks, timeline, and cost of a matter. While our extensive experience means we scope work more precisely and anticipate possibilities more than non-specialists, our transdisplinary practice approach means we combine principles of the DuPont legal model with our proprietary SaaS technology to provide unparalleled assessments. The outcome places clients in a position to make a 'business choice' on whether to pursue, settle, or defend a matter.

Shipping Finance Joint Ventures

We structure alternative financing for vessel acquisition, ownership, and joint ventures where conventional ship mortgage lending does not fit - working with shipowners, operators, and private capital investors on multi-entity structures with built-in governance and exit mechanics.

Multi-jurisdictional disputes

Our international litigation practice is structured around managing parallel proceedings—coordinating domestic and international litigation simultaneously, navigating conflicting court orders, and leveraging parallel disputes to secure strategic advantage in settlement negotiations.

We advise clients involved in interconnected disputes, investigations and enforcement proceedings across multiple jurisdictions. These matters may involve parallel court proceedings, arbitration, insolvency processes, asset-recovery actions or applications for urgent interim relief, each governed by different procedural rules but arising from the same underlying dispute.

Dispute Resolution Overview

We act in high-stakes disputes where legal, commercial and reputational considerations cannot be separated. Our practice brings together international arbitration, commercial litigation, investigations, asset recovery, enforcement and crisis-led advisory within a single disputes strategy.

We are frequently instructed in matters involving cross-border investments, shareholder and partnership breakdowns, complex commercial contracts, fraud, asset dissipation, contested restructurings and enforcement across multiple jurisdictions. Many of these disputes arise at moments of wider business pressure, where the immediate legal issue must be managed alongside ownership, financing, regulatory, operational and reputational consequences.

Clients work directly with senior disputes lawyers throughout. Our partner-led model is particularly suited to owners, private investors, family offices and businesses that require decisive judgment, discretion and a coherent strategy rather than a fragmented response across multiple teams.

Our role is not limited to conducting proceedings. We identify the pressure points, preserve leverage, secure evidence and assets, assess settlement and enforcement prospects from the outset, and determine which combination of litigation, arbitration, interim relief, investigation and commercial negotiation is most likely to produce a practical result.

Where assets, evidence or contractual rights are at immediate risk, we prepare and respond to applications for urgent protective relief, including:

freezing and proprietary injunctions;

asset-disclosure and information orders;

orders preserving property, documents or electronic evidence;

interim payment and security-for-costs applications;

the appointment of receivers or other protective officeholders;

relief before the commencement of substantive proceedings;

applications made without notice where the procedural threshold is met; and

interim court relief in support of arbitration or enforcement proceedings.

These applications require more than proof of an underlying claim. We work with clients to establish the evidential basis for urgency, risk of dissipation, ownership or control of assets, the necessity of proceeding without notice, and the scope of any undertaking or security required by the Court.
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We assist clients in preparing for capital raising, identifying the appropriate investment structure, assessing investor expectations, designing commercial terms, negotiating governance and economic rights, and documenting the transaction from term sheet to closing.

Our role is not limited to legal execution. We help clients understand what they are offering, what rights they are giving away, how capital should enter the structure, how investors should participate in upside and downside, and how control, liquidity, exits, dilution, information rights, reserved matters, defaults, and enforcement mechanisms should be addressed.
We advise on the formation of regulated funds and bespoke private investment structures for family offices, sponsors, founders, and private capital investors.

Our practice covers DIFC, ADGM, and SCA-regulated fund structures, as well as tailored holding, operating, SPV, joint venture, and co-investment vehicles designed to operate as private investment platforms where a full regulated fund is unnecessary or disproportionate.
Our private capital partner creates governance structures that balance control against investor protections, optimise tax across jurisdictions, ensure compliance with securities and anti-money-laundering law, and advise on capital deployment. Plans are built to hold legally while leaving room for operational flexibility.