Banking & Finance.
Lender and borrower disputes, financial-crime defence, recovery proceedings, and regulatory engagement with U.A.E. financial authorities.
Approach
Banking and finance in the United Arab Emirates spans three regulatory environments — the onshore Central Bank, the DIFC under the DFSA, and the ADGM under the FSRA. The firm advises clients across all three, with a particular focus on contentious matters and on the criminal dimensions of financial-crime allegations.
Engagements
- Lender enforcement and recovery proceedings
- Borrower defence — including travel-ban and bounced-cheque proceedings
- Cum-Ex, AML, BEC and financial-crime defence
- Asset tracing and freezing orders
- Regulatory engagement with the Central Bank, DFSA and FSRA
- Cross-border recovery in coordination with international counsel
Investigation Experience
The founder's three decades at the head of Dubai Police's CID and oversight of its financial-crimes work give the firm an unusual depth of experience in matters where the criminal and the civil overlap.