Within limits?
An overview of the Omani employer’s right to organise work in light of COVID-19 by Abdulaziz Alrashdi of BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates. The Coronavirus pandemic currently facing the world has led governments to impose...
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The Positive List
Hunton Andrews Kurth takes a closer look at the latest development in the FDI Law in which up to 100 per cent foreign ownership maybe allowed, subject to certain conditions. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently...
Strengthening the system
Eversheds Sutherland reviews the measures and recommendations outlined in the FATF Mutual Evaluation Report on the UAE. The Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”), the inter-governmental global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, has now issued its...
Middle East renewables in the age of COVID-19
Mhairi Main Garcia discusses some of the challenges facing the Middle East renewable energy sector as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and considers some of the potential ramifications. Everyone is talking about the “new normal”....
The path to board diversity
Stephanie Williams – Quinn and Nadia Taousi of PwC Middle East takes a closer look at what it takes to implement change to increase the presence of women on boards and to ensure a gender diverse...
Prospects, challenges & measures
Charles Russell Speechlys explores the impact of COVID-19 on the regional real estate sector. These are turbulent times and things are rapidly evolving within the real estate sector throughout the region. However, we are seeing some...
The Middle East’s PPP landscape
Stephanie Hawes of Dentons analyses public private partnership frameworks in the region with an insight into the steps taken by countries as part of their strategic plan for growth and development. The term public private partnership...
A double blow
The contractual repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and oil price war on oil and gas contracts by Richard Devine and Ana Severova. The economies of the GCC countries and public spending budgets depend heavily on oil....
Secondment arrangements – whose liability is it anyway?
The DWF Employment team in Dubai explores how secondment arrangements are dealt with across the DIFC and the ADGM in order to analyse the feasibility of and the resulting implications arising from the implementation of secondment...
Uncharted waters
Marco De Leo and Enrico Vergani of BonelliErede share their insight on COVID-19 and its impact on the cruise industry. The UAE was quick to respond to the threat of COVID-19, as evidenced by the authorities’...
