Acted in the enforcement of a SIAC arbitral award through the DIFC Courts, with approximately AED 150 million in issue.
Experience
Where developers, contractors and institutions bring their hardest disputes.
Representative experience across the practice — advisory work, litigation and arbitration — before DIAC, ArbitrateAD, the ADGM and DIFC courts, and the Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Federal courts. Much of it for developers and contractors.
Every matter is handled personally, from first advice to recovery. Matters are illustrative and anonymised to protect client confidentiality.
Selected high-value matters
Acted in enforcement and asset-recovery proceedings with sums in excess of AED 1 billion at stake.
Defended a white-collar criminal matter with exposure in excess of AED 1 billion.
Real estate & development
Advising a developer on off-plan sale structures, SPA terms and RERA-compliant escrow arrangements for a multi-tower project.
Acting for a developer in off-plan purchaser disputes over delivery delays and DLD / RERA cancellation before the Dubai courts.
Advising a master developer on jointly-owned-property structuring, service-charge frameworks and owners'-association governance.
Representing a developer in escrow-account and project-completion disputes with the escrow agent and main contractor.
Acting for a leading UAE developer in real-estate claims before the Dubai courts, through the court-appointed expert stage.
Advising an investor group on acquiring an off-plan portfolio — title, RERA status and developer covenants.
Handling a portfolio of possession and service-charge recovery claims for property and community managers before the ADGM and Dubai courts.
Defending a developer against rescission and refund claims tied to alleged specification and handover breaches.
Registered a Dubai rental appeal for a property manager in an AED 359,589 tenancy dispute.
Enforcing possession and money judgments for a developer and property manager against defaulting purchasers and tenants.
Construction & engineering
Advising a contractor on a FIDIC-based main contract — payment, variation and extension-of-time provisions — before financial close.
Acting for a contractor in delay, disruption and variation claims on a large-scale UAE development.
Representing an engineering contractor in a construction arbitration over defective works and the final account.
Handling an AED 5.64m commercial claim for a landscaping and contracting company — proceedings stayed pending a related appeal.
Advising a developer on decennial-liability exposure and defect-rectification strategy on a completed project.
Acting in a construction and piling appeal before the Dubai courts — attended and submissions filed.
Acting in a steel-trading and fencing supply dispute — court-appointed expert reporting.
Handled an ADGM Courts dispute between a steel-systems contractor and a major international construction bureau.
Acting in a precast-concrete supply and construction dispute for a UAE contracting group.
Handled contractor appeals and cheque-execution objections in engineering and contracting disputes.
International & DIAC arbitration
Acting for a UAE technology and engineering contractor in a DIAC arbitration — from tribunal constitution to award.
Representing a shareholder in an ArbitrateAD arbitration over a commercial and shareholder dispute.
Advising on arbitration-clause drafting and seat / rules selection — DIAC, ArbitrateAD, DIFC-LCIA — in development and construction contracts.
Acting on an application for interim and conservatory measures in support of a pending arbitration.
Enforcing a foreign arbitral award in the UAE under the New York Convention, including a jurisdictional challenge.
Resisting enforcement and advancing a set-aside application on due-process grounds.
Advising a developer on forum strategy — arbitration versus court — for a cross-border project dispute.
Commercial & civil litigation
Won a commercial appeal — dismissed and the judgment affirmed, with costs and the security deposit forfeited against the appellant.
Handled an AED 8.46m commercial dispute for a facilities-management group — judgment secured, enforcement in progress.
Handled a commercial claim for a trading company — rejoinder filed and the case reserved for judgment.
Acting for an asset-management company in an AED 662,055 Abu Dhabi commercial appeal — execution follow-up ongoing.
Filed a Dubai partial-commercial appeal over an AED 101,484 technical-services claim.
Acting in full-civil claims before the Dubai Civil Court through the court-appointed expert and submissions stages.
Advising on contractual risk and dispute strategy in a distribution and agency relationship.
Representing a developer in a debt-recovery and account-reconciliation dispute.
Corporate, M&A & shareholder
Advising on the acquisition of a real-estate and development company — due diligence and SPA negotiation.
Advising on foreign-ownership structuring and free-zone versus onshore setup for a development venture.
Acting in a shareholder and joint-venture dispute over deadlock and exit in a property group.
Advising on post-merger integration across a large, multi-entity group.
Advising a developer on a shareholders' agreement and profit-share arrangement for a project SPV.
Representing a minority shareholder in an unfair-prejudice claim.
Enforcement & asset recovery
Obtained attachment and freezing orders over a contractor's trade licence, premises, transactions and bank accounts in an AED 3.2m recovery.
Secured cheque-execution and asset-freeze measures for a property manager before the Abu Dhabi courts — debtor transactions frozen.
Handling enforcement and execution files across the Dubai and Abu Dhabi courts — asset and staged-instalment recovery.
Transferring finalised ADGM Court possession judgments to enforcement.
Advising a creditor on pre-judgment security and asset-tracing strategy.
Enforcing a money judgment against a developer counterparty through staged-instalment recovery.
Regulatory, criminal & labour
Handled white-collar and criminal-defence matters before the UAE criminal courts.
Defending a bribery and breach-of-trust criminal complaint for a management company before the Abu Dhabi courts.
Acting in labour and employment disputes and ministerial-decision executions across the UAE.
Advising a developer on RERA / DLD regulatory notifications and compliance.
Advising on AML / CFT and sanctions exposure in a real-estate transaction.
Technology & digital assets
Acting for a technology company in a claim before the ADGM Courts.
Advising a proptech company on platform terms and commercial contracts.
Advising on VARA licensing and virtual-asset regulatory positioning.
Advising a developer on tokenised-property and smart-contract considerations.
Advising on PDPL data-protection compliance and breach response.
Representative of the types of matters handled across the practice — illustrative and anonymised to protect client confidentiality. A fuller schedule is available on request.
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