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...
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Opinions
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...
More than just firewalls
After a series of high profile, successful cyber attacks on a variety of major corporations, in-house lawyers should be doing more and implementing measures to protect their companies from such threats, writes Alex Ridout. It...
Driving Innovation
Measures to protect intellectual property rights have been gaining traction in the UAE in the last few years; however is it vital for the country to adapt new best practices to progress further. Nadim Bardawil highlights...
Choose the Right Health Plan: Top Five Tips
Duncan Crerar of Nexus Insurance Brokers shares his knowledge on the most important things you need to think about when buying Group Medical Insurance to cover your employees. Medical Insurance is the subject of much discussion...
The International Business of Football
David Hull of Squire Patton Boggs, explores the continuing appeal of English football clubs to international and Middle East investors. Is there no end to football's world domination? Few sports have extended such global reach and...
On the right path…
Andrea Gillard sheds light on the corporate governance practices a company needs to follow to run business as per the stakeholders’ desires. Corporate Governance hit the news in 2001 and 2002 with the collapse of global...
