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Arbitration
- TOOLKIT
- TOOLKIT
- Comparative Toolkit - Arbitration
- TOOLKIT
- INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC ARBITRATION
- UNDERSTANDING ARBITRATION
- Local Arbitration Laws and Institutions
- What makes an Arbitration International or Domestic
- Comparing Onshore Arbitration and International Arbitration
- International Arbitration - Role of the Courts
- What is Institutional Arbitration?
- ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS
- Arbitrability in International Arbitration
- ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL
- Rights, Duties & Liability of Arbitrators
- ARBITRAL PROCEDURE
- Interim Remedies and Arbitration
- Interim and Emergency Measures in Arbitration
- Costs in International Arbitration - The ICC Standard
- ARBITRAL AWARDS
- Arbitral Awards – Basic Rules and Provisions
- Dissenting Opinions in Arbitral Awards
- Settlement in Arbitration
- UNDERSTANDING ARBITRATION
- INSTITUTIONAL ARBITRATION
- MAIN INSTITUTIONS IN THE GULF
- Arbitrating under the ADCCAC Regulations
- Starting an Arbitration at the GCCCAC
- Starting an Arbitration under ADCCAC rules
- ADCCAC – The Award
- ADCCAC – Costs and Fees
- ADCCAC – the Arbitral Panel
- ADCCAC – Procedure
- MAIN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
- ICDR Arbitration Rules
- SCC Arbitration
- LCIA Arbitration Rules
- Starting an arbitration at the CIETAC
- MAIN INSTITUTIONS IN THE GULF
- FIELDS OF ARBITRATION
- ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
- Arbitration in the Energy Sector
- Investment Treaty Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty
- Oil and Gas Projects - Contracts and Disputes
- ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
- INVESTMENT ARBITRATION
- INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION
- The Procedural Framework for Investment Arbitration in the Gulf
- The Meaning of Investor and Investment in Investment Arbitration
- Understanding Investment Arbitration
- INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION
Banking & Financing
- ASSET FINANCING
- FINANCING STRUCTURES
- Alternative Financing
- FINANCING STRUCTURES
- FINANCE LAW
- BANKING
- National and Islamic Banks Regulation
- BANKING
- ISLAMIC FINANCE
- SUKUK
- Sukuk structures
- SUKUK
Commercial
- COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT
- AGENCY, DISTRIBUTION AND FRANCHISING
- Commercial Agencies and Agency Agreements
- Drafting a Franchise Agreement
- Exclusive Distribution
- AGENCY, DISTRIBUTION AND FRANCHISING
- COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS
- CONTRACTING FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES
- Termination of Commercial Contracts
- Validity of E-Contracts and Electronic Signatures
- Freedom of Contract: Does it Exist?
- CONTRACTING FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES
- COMMERCIAL ANTI-TRUST LAWS
- COMPETITION LAW
- Passing Off Disputes
- Competition Law for the Telecommunications Sector
- COMPETITION LAW
Construction
- CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS
- TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS
- Limits and Exclusions of Liability in Construction Contracts
- Types of Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost-Plus Contracts
- SUB-CONTRACTS
- How To Spot Problems and How To Protect Yourself - Subcontractors
- Sub-Contracting in Construction Projects
- Sub-Contractual Methods of Contractual Protections
- TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS
- KEY CONSIDERATIONS IN CONSTRUCTION LAW
- COMMON ISSUES IN THE CONSTRUCTION CONTEXT
- Contractors All Risk Insurance
- Liability Caps and Exclusion Clauses
- CLAIMS IN THE CONSTRUCTION CONTEXT
- Common Claims in the Construction Industry
- Assessment of Concurrent Delays
- Completion, Defects and Decennial Liability
- Construction Claims and ADR
- Delay and Disruption Claims – Prolongation Costs
- Making a Contractor's Claim Count: How to Protect Contractors' rights under a FI…
- COMMON ISSUES IN THE CONSTRUCTION CONTEXT
Corporate
- INCORPORATION
- SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT
- Drafting a Shareholders' Agreement: What to put and what not to put in it
- Shareholders Agreement - Managing Economic Interests
- Shareholder Agreements – Shareholders' Rights under the Companies Law
- SETTING UP A COMPANY
- Can you really Limit Personal Liability for a Company's Actions?
- Basic steps to Setting up a Company
- Share Allotments
- COMPANY'S CONSTITUTION
- Drafting a Corporate Charter
- SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT
- CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
- SHAREHOLDERS
- Liability of shareholders in LLCs
- MANAGERS AND DIRECTORS
- Directors' Duties
- Appointment, Retirement, Resignation or Removal of Directors
- Disclosure of Directors' Interests in Shares
- Powers of Directors
- Criminal Liability of Directors
- SHAREHOLDERS
- MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
- ASSET PURCHASE
- Asset Purchase – Ancillary Documents
- Asset Purchase – Due Diligence
- Asset Purchase - Asset Financing
- Asset Purchase – Auction Sale
- SHARE PURCHASE
- Drafting an SPA
- COMPANY ACQUISITION
- Introduction to Company Acquisition
- Drafting Purchase and Sale Contracts
- ASSET PURCHASE
Dispute Resolution
- LITIGATION
- CIVIL COURT PROCEDURES
- Outline of the Court System and Jurisdiction of the Courts
- Starting Litigation in Civil Proceedings
- Appeals in Civil Proceedings
- Disclosure of Documents in Civil Proceedings
- Enforcement of Judgements in Civil Proceedings
- Enforcement of Foreign Court Judgments in Civil Proceedings
- Rules of Evidence in Civil Proceedings
- CIVIL COURT PROCEDURES
- ADR
- AVOIDING LITIGATION
- Settlement Procedure and Agreement
- ADR BASIC RULES
- Mediation Concepts and Principles
- Mediation Procedures
- What is ADR?
- AVOIDING LITIGATION
- INDUSTRY SPECIFIC DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- IP DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- Trademark Litigation
- Copyright Litigation
- CONSTRUCTION DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- Common Claims in the Construction Industry
- Construction Claims and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- INSOLVENCY DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- What is the Procedure on a Creditors' Bankruptcy Petition Hearing?
- What Effect does an Insolvency Process have on an on-going Litigation and Arbitr…
- IP DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Employment
- EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP
- EMPLOYEES' RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
- Conditions in the Workplace and Working Hours
- Employee Leave Entitlements
- Discrimination in the Workplace
- Benefits
- Pensions
- Recruitment Obligations
- EMPLOYEES' RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
- EMPLOYMENT SPECIFICS
- BASIC CHARACTERISTICS
- Employment Contracts
- Termination of Employment Contracts
- Termination of Labour Contracts and Entitled Pay
- Post Termination Covenants and Confidentiality
- FOREIGN WORKERS
- Rules on employing Foreign Workers
- Offences, Expulsion and Detention of Foreign Workers
- BASIC CHARACTERISTICS
Energy
- OIL & GAS
- RULES AND PROCEDURES
- Regulation of Upstream Oil and Gas
- Regulation of Midstream Oil and Gas
- Regulation of Downstream Oil and Gas
- RULES AND PROCEDURES
Financial Services
- INSURANCE
- INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE REGULATION
- Insurance Agents Regulation - Brokers and Underwriting Agents and Third Party Cl…
- INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE REGULATION
- FINANCIAL REGULATION
- MONEY LAUDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING
- Risk Assessment and Due Diligence
- MONEY LAUDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING
Insolvency
- TYPES OF INSOLVENCY
- CORPORATE INSOLVENCY
- Compulsory Liquidation
- Voluntary Liquidation of a Company
- Director's Personal Liability
- Treatment of Derivatives in Insolvency
- Purchasing an Insolvent Business
- Company Voluntary Arrangements
- OTHER TYPES OF INSOLVENCY
- Partnership Insolvency
- Personal Insolvency
- CORPORATE INSOLVENCY
- INSOLVENCY PROCEDURES
- LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
- What Effect does an Insolvency Process have on an on-going Litigation and Arbitr…
- BANKRUPTCY
- What is the Procedure on a Creditors' Bankruptcy Petition Hearing?
- LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
Intellectual Property & Information Technology
- IP CONSIDERATIONS
- TRADEMARK
- Trademark Litigation
- Passing Off Disputes
- PATENTS
- Patent Infringement
- Patent Validity and Grounds for Invalidity
- Patent Entitlement & Co-Ownership
- Lapsed Patents and Restoration
- COPYRIGHT
- Copyright Litigation
- DATA PROTECTION
- Cybersecurity and Data Protection
- TRADEMARK
- TMT
- TELECOMS
- Competition Law for the Telecommunications Sector
- NEW TECHNOLOGIES
- Artificial Intelligence
- Blockchain
- Drones
- Cloud Adoption
- TELECOMS
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- FINTECH
- Cryptocurrency Regulation
- Crowdfunding
- ONLINE CONCERNS
- Cybercrimes - Regulatory Framework and Corporate and Directors Liability
- FINTECH
Leisure & Licences
- SPORTS
- MAINTENANCE AND HEALTH
- Anti-Doping International Rules
- MAINTENANCE AND HEALTH
Private Wealth & Taxation
- PRIVATE CLIENT
- FAMILY BUSINESS GOVERNANCE
- The value, validity and enforceability of a Family Constitution
- SUCCESSION PLANNING
- Inheritance Laws and Transfer of Ownership
- Financial Centres in the Gulf in a Trust Law Context
- Inheritance of Tenancy
- FAMILY BUSINESS GOVERNANCE
- VAT
- VAT BASIC PRINCIPLES
- VAT Basic Principles
- Input VAT and VAT Adjustments
- VAT - Who and What will be Taxed
- VAT obligations and Directors' Liability
- Tax Returns, Tax Procedures and Tax Agents
- Record Keeping Tax Audits Assessments & Administrative Penalties
- Output VAT and Tax Invoices
- INDUSTRY SPECIFIC VAT IMPACTS
- VAT on Property and Real Estate
- VAT and Designated Zones
- VAT and Financial Services
- VAT and Employee Benefits
- VAT BASIC PRINCIPLES
- NATIONAL TAXES AND FISCAL POLICIES
- TAXES ON INDIVIDUALS
- Zakat
- Municipality Taxes
- Tourist Taxes
- TAXES ON COMPANIES AND INSTITUTIONS
- Construction Taxes and VAT
- TAXES ON INDIVIDUALS
Public Law
- INTERNATIONAL LAW
- TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS
- The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- The Arab Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- EU-GCC Cooperation
- EFTA-GCC Cooperation
- TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS
- ACCESS TO INFORMATION
- CYBER LAW AND SECURITY
- Cybersecurity and Data Protection
- CYBER LAW AND SECURITY
Real Estate
- REAL ESTATE REGULATIONS
- LANDLORD AND TENANT
- Characteristics of a Tenancy Contract
- Leasing Property and Maintenance Responsabilities
- Tenant Eviction: Requirements and Procedures
- How often can a Landlord increase rent?
- Subtenancy / Subleasing
- Inheritance of Tenancy
- COMMON PRACTICES FOR REAL PROPERTY
- Purchasing Land (includ. Sale of Land / Registration of Land / Restriction on Sa…
- Off-plan Property Purchase
- LANDLORD AND TENANT
- OWNERSHIP, MORTGAGE AND REPOSSESSION
- MORTGAGE & REPOSSESSION
- Creation, Types & Enforcement of Mortgages
- Mortgages - What Happens in the Case of Default and Foreclosure
- Real Estate Mortgage Loans and Registration Process
- FOREIGN INVESTORS AND INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
- Foreigners Purchasing Real Estate Property
- Foreign Corporate Structures a Step by Step Guide on How to invest in Properties
- MORTGAGE & REPOSSESSION
Transport
- TRANSPORT AND TRADE
- SHIPPING
- Ship Arrest
- SHIPPING
Skillsets For Lawyers
- Critical Thinking
- Creativity
- Creativity for in-house lawyers: Among the top skills to be employable in 2030
- Three Practical Creativity Tasks to get you started
- Legal Design
- An Introduction to Design for Law
- A Design mindset for the Lawyer
- Creativity
