A New Path or Shaky Ground?
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Transforming the Global Gas Trade
Gas exporters in the Middle East will need to be aware of the implications of the expected rise of LNG exports from the United States, which has the potential to affect global and regional pricing trends....
The Next Frontier of Islamic Finance
Tarek El-Assra explores the scope, benefits and risks of Shari’ah-compliant crowdfunding in the Middle East with an insight into why regulations are critical for its development. The concept of crowdfunding is a recent phenomenon that first...
When the regulator comes knocking…
Regulated companies or individuals within the DIFC may well find themselves subjected to an investigation by DFSA. Rajesh Vyakarnam examines the DFSA’s role, its powers and what you can do to be prepared. Firms operating within...
Arbitration in post-sanctions Iran
Aarta Alkarimi and Mahdi Arjomandi set out some of the key points relating to the Law of International Commercial Arbitration, centres for arbitration and available institutional rules in Iran. Lifting of most European Union and secondary...
Policy-driven Infrastructure
Paige Crewson of Stephenson Harwood looks at policy and law developments affecting PPP in the Middle East with a focus on Dubai's new PPP law from a private sector perspective. Governments across the globe have grown...
On the path of sophistication…
Arbitration set to be strengthened by new Federal Arbitration Law. Paul Taylor talks about how the new law will support the use of arbitration in the UAE. Recent announcements[1] by the UAE Minister of Economy, Sultan...
DIFC Courts – A Conduit Jurisidiction?
Legal practitioners in the UAE are familiar with the process involved in enforcing arbitral awards and foreign judgments in the Dubai Courts but there was until recently some uncertainty over how the DIFC Courts would treat...
Labour Transparency in Supply Chains
Labour Transparency in Supply Chains New Ministry of Labour Resolutions to enhance workers’ rights are due to come into effect in the UAE in January 2016, but these are not the only changes multinational businesses need...
Arbitration & Public Policy
Gareth Mills of Charles Russell Speechlys highlights the global concern of how public policy exemption will impact enforcement of arbitral awards in the region. The recent arbitration laws passed in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and...
