Corporate structuring

The counsel

Most structural trouble in the UAE starts with a single company set up in a hurry to hold trading operations, property and family savings together. It works until it doesn't. We design the structure first: which entity holds assets, which one trades and carries risk, where intellectual property sits, how profit moves between entities, and what happens on exit, dispute or succession. For groups operating internationally, the UAE entity is aligned with the parent jurisdiction and its tax treaty position rather than built in isolation. We draft shareholder agreements, set board composition, define reserved matters and transfer provisions with the same rigour. The aim is a structure that still behaves predictably in ten years, not one that was simply fastest to register today.