Sandeep Bhalothia and Aman Garg examine key considerations that parties should consider before entering into an Memorandum of Understanding or Letter of Intent. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or the Letter of Intent (LoI) is a...
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...
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...
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...
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”....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
