Technology contracts, digital-asset regulation, and disputes at the intersection of engineering and law — where an engineer's grasp of the underlying systems is decisive.
The mandate
Technology and digital-asset work is where my engineering background is most directly useful. I advise founders, operators and institutions on technology contracts, on the fast-moving UAE digital-asset regime, and on the disputes that arise where systems, data and law intersect.
The framework I work in
The UAE regulates digital assets by function, across layers. The CBUAE Payment Token Services Regulation (2024, under Federal Law No. 14 of 2018) governs stablecoins and payment tokens — issuance, custody, reserve and, decisively, which tokens may be spent in the UAE. Investment- and trading-grade virtual assets sit with VARA in Dubai, the FSRA in ADGM, and the federal SCA. Getting the jurisdiction map right is now a first-order design decision, not an afterthought.
Pay with a token and you meet the Central Bank; trade or invest in it and you meet a markets regulator. Build the licensing stack to match.
What I handle
- Technology and data contracts, licensing and outsourcing
- Digital-asset and payment-token regulatory advice (CBUAE, VARA, ADGM, SCA)
- Data protection, IP and competition touchpoints
- Disputes at the intersection of engineering and law
The engineer's edge
Where a matter turns on how a system actually behaves — a protocol, a settlement flow, a data architecture — I do not need it translated. I read the technology, then advise on the law. That is rare, and in this field it is decisive.
References: CBUAE Payment Token Services Regulation (2024) under Federal Law No. 14 of 2018; VARA (Dubai), ADGM FSRA and SCA frameworks. General information, not legal advice.