These types of arrangements can provide a foreign business with invaluable local experience and knowledge allowing it to benefit from pre-existing relationships that an agent may have with other local businesses. However, any business wishing to enter the UAE market must consider the impact of the applicable UAE commercial agency regime.  We all too often see the aftermath of a failure to appreciate local laws and customs, when seeking advice at the outset could have significantly reduced, if not eliminated, the issues parties may face.