The employment team hosted a breakfast seminar on Tuesday 22 March 2011, discussing the impact of the Cabinet Resolution (No. 25 of 2010), and its supporting Ministerial Resolutions, on UAE employment relations.

The New Maritime Law is about to be endorsed.

Largely driven by increasing demand Iraq has been experiencing a construction boon in the past few years.

The proposed Law on Bankruptcy (the "Draft Law") is currently being reviewed by the Department of Legal Opinions & Legislation of the State of Kuwait.

The Consumer Protection Authority has issued the Supplier's Guideline as both a regulatory and advisory instrument. The Guideline is intended to reinforce the principle of shared responsibility...

This article summarises the current position as regards the promotion of foreign funds into the UAE on a cross-border basis.

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has issued a new regulation titled "Close-out Netting and Related Financial Collateral Regulation" (the "Netting Regulation") The Netting Regulation...

#SDAIA has released a draft of the Controls Governing Commercial, Professional, and Non-Profit Activities Related to Personal Data Protection on the Istitilaa portal for public feedback.

Managers responsible for ensuring that an organisation’s intellectual property rights are protected often believe that the organisation automatically owns all intellectual property rights arising from the work of its employees.

Welcome to this special edition dedicated to one of our fastest growing regional practices Competition & Antitrust.

Security is of paramount importance in relation to commercial lending.

In ruling upon an action initially filed before the Dubai Court, the Court of Cassation held that an employer and an employee could not agree to increase the compensation to be paid by the employee to the employer upon an early termination of a contract which had been fixed for a definite period.

Jordanian Companies Law No. 22 for the year 1997 (JCL) provided for the merger and acquisition in Articles (222 – 239).

In February 2017, significant changes were implemented to the corporate tax regime in Oman.

On or around 21 February 2025, the Minister of Commerce decreed and published into law, the Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Rules ("UBO Rules") of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ("KSA").

With a number of new regulations issued and others in the pipeline, the UAE insurance regulatory landscape has entered a pivotal new phase.

It has been broadly accepted that copyright holders in the UAE enjoy absolute discretion to determine the first date of publishing their works.

Warranty and Indemnity (W&I) insurance has evolved from a specialist solution on a handful of high profile cross-border deals to a mainstream risk-allocation tool that now supports more and more global private mergers...

Two Dubai trading companies (the "Claimants") filed a commercial action against another local company (the "Defendant").

This article provides an overview of a recent judgment passed by the Abu Dhabi Courts in relation to air carriers' liability.