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If your business processes personal data connected to the Dubai International Financial Centre, whether that means customers, employees or contacts based there, you need to understand the DIFC Data Protection Law. It applies to DIFC registered entities and, since a set of amendments made in 2025, to a wider group of businesses than many assume….
A management buyout, or MBO, is when the people already running a business day to day buy it from the current owner, rather than the business being sold to an outside buyer. It is one of the most common ways for owners to exit a business while keeping it in familiar hands, and one of…
A joint venture is when two or more businesses come together to work on a shared project or venture, while each continuing to trade independently outside of it. It sits apart from a merger, where two businesses combine into one, and from a straightforward business sale, where one party exits entirely. This guide covers the…
If your business uses the DIFC as a seat of arbitration, or is thinking about it, the framework you are relying on is in the middle of its biggest update since it was introduced in 2008. The DIFC has launched a consultation on wide ranging amendments to the DIFC Arbitration Law, covering everything from tribunal…
An MBI, or management buy-in, is what happens when an external manager or management team buys a controlling stake in a business and takes over running it. It is one of the main routes into business ownership for experienced managers who want to run a company rather than build one from scratch. If you want…
A share purchase agreement is the document that legally completes the sale of a company. Most business owners will only sign one once or twice in their working life, and the terms in it decide what you are left with once the deal closes. Whether you are selling a business you built from scratch or…
If your business is taking on staff in the Dubai International Financial Centre, the employment visa is usually the first thing that comes up, and the first thing that gets confused with the DIFC employment contract itself. The two are connected but separate. This guide sets out how the DIFC employment visa process broadly works,…
DEWS stands for the DIFC Employee Workplace Savings plan. It is a mandatory, defined contribution workplace savings scheme that replaced the traditional end of service gratuity for employees working in the Dubai International Financial Centre. If you employ staff in the DIFC, or you are an employee trying to work out what DEWS actually means…
Taking on staff in the Dubai International Financial Centre for the first time is unfamiliar territory for most UK businesses, and the contract is where that unfamiliarity tends to show. DIFC Employment Law No. 2 of 2019 sets out a specific list of terms a written contract must include, and treats several of them as…
Receiving contact from the SRA about a potential investigation is unsettling for any solicitor or law firm. The process is unfamiliar, the stakes are significant, and the SRA’s communications can be difficult to interpret without prior experience of regulatory proceedings. This guide explains how the SRA investigation process works in practice, from the initial trigger…
The solicitors accounts rules sit at the heart of how SRA-regulated law firms handle client money. Get them right and the firm protects its clients, its reputation and its authorisation. Get them wrong and the consequences range from an accountant’s qualified report to a full SRA investigation. This guide sets out what the rules require,…
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