Legal consultancy and business setup news in Middle East.

On a Monday evening, for nearly six hours, the world watched anxiously as the global tech giants Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram went off the grid. In a technology-driven society where each and every person is overly dependent on social media for posting personal matters to facilitating the operations of small businesses around the world, the […]

The virtual private networks (VPN) work by encrypting the connection to the internet, disguising the IP address and preventing others from tracking your virtual whereabouts. The use of VPNs conjures a direct association to illegal activities such as hacking, accessing or downloading communication and gaming applications or websites that are blocked in the UAE, so it […]

Last week, the United Arab Emirates (the UAE) Minister of State for Digital Economy, Artificial Intelligence and Remote Working System (the Minister) announced that the UAE will introduce a new federal data protection law (the New Law). The announcement came as part of the UAE’s golden jubilee event held by the UAE government with the […]

What’s New? Dubai Department of Economic Development (Dubai Economy) has published guidelines on the procedures for foreign investors 100% ownership of limited liability companies in Dubai and a list of activates eligible for foreign ownership. Dubai Economy has started implementing the new decision on foreign ownership effective 1st June 2021, in accordance with the Federal […]

On Wednesday 19 May, the UAE’s Ministry of Economy announced on the government’s Twitter account that non-Emirati investors and entrepreneurs will be permitted to fully own a business based in the UAE starting from 1 June 2021. The UAE announced the law allowing 100% foreign ownership of companies in November last year and it anticipated […]

Apparently Alexa and Siri are the only women who listen to men. Do you know these women I’m talking about? Well, let’s just say they are not real. That would be quite something. Long live artificial intelligence (AI). In our continued fast pace of life, is becoming increasingly evident that any technology provider who is […]

On 9 December, the UAE approved the use of the Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine on the heels of the UK approval of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine a week earlier (the USA’s subsequently approved the same vaccine on 12 December). Other countries have already followed suit with the various vaccines available and more shall do so over the […]

The UAE has taken yet another progressive step towards becoming one of the most desirable destinations for business owners and investors as foreign business owners no longer require an Emirati holding 51% of the shares in their mainland LLCs. This historical amendment to the 2015 Commercial Companies Law undoubtedly translates into a skyrocketing of the […]

The UAE has taken a progressive step through the enactment of significant amendments to its Personal Status Law, the Federal Penal Code and Federal Penal Procedural Law

“Satisfying” the Economic Substance Regulations (ESR) imposed by the UAE Government seems to be the buzz word of the month as the deadlines for submission of the ESR forms (which have been repeatedly extended) come closer. Most authorities have set the deadline for 30 June 2020 but some are earlier therefore companies will need to […]