Services

LegalExpert legal solutions tailored to achieve your goals

M&A and Private Equity

Our firm has extensive expertise in mergers and acquisitions spanning the UAE, the GCC and beyond. Our experience includes:

  • Business and asset acquisitions and dispositions
  • Share acquisitions and dispositions
  • Group restructuring
  • Due diligence
  • Transaction support
  • Post-transaction integration
  • Transaction management (including coordinating with other specialists and foreign lawyers, if relevant)
  • Transaction financing
  • Private equity and venture capital investments and exits, including acting for management teams and founders
  • Joint ventures


If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Commercial Matters

We provide commercial advice to a number of leading companies, institutions and private groups.

 Our expertise includes:

  • Commercial contract drafting and reviewing
  • Distribution, agency and licensing agreements
  • Customer terms and conditions and sale agreements
  • Operational contracts including business systems and outsourcing agreements (service and use agreements)
  • Consultancy agreements
  • Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
  • Strategic alliances, joint ventures, teaming, and reseller agreements with key partners
  • Commercial leasing
  • Regulatory and licensing regimes
  • Capital raising
  • Shareholder arrangements
  • Board governance and compliance advice


If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Technology, Media & Telecom

We have and can procure extensive experience in the Technology space and have worked across the full range of matters. Our experience includes:

  • Services agreements
  • IT, communications, life sciences
  • Master services agreements
  • Data, technology, and product licensing
  • Procurement strategies, ROI, RFI, RFQ, RFP documents and responses
  • User terms (web, mobile, SaaS, apps, etc)


If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Employment

We offer all services across the day-to-day and transactional employment matters, including:

  • Ministry of Labour matters
  • Drafting service and employment contracts
  • Executive agreements
  • General advice on employment-related issues
  • HR Policies
  • Independent contractor agreements
  • Staff benefit, gratuity and incentive schemes
  • Redundancy and termination management
  • Immigration and residency regulations and processes
  • Employee and employer disputes


If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Intellectual Property

We are experienced in a broad range of Intellectual property matters. We have extensive experience in the following:

  • Registration and enforcement of intellectual property rights (trademarks, copyright and patents)
  • Transfer and assignment of intellectual property rights
  • IP commercialisation arrangements (transfers and licensing)
  • Intellectual property licensing agreements
  • R&D, supplier, design, and manufacturing arrangements


If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Dispute Resolution

Our team have success in achieving negotiated outcomes in disputes of various types. We aim to reach a positive outcome for you as soon as possible and with minimum disruption to your business. Our expertise includes:

  • Commercial dispute resolution
  • Resolving board, shareholder, and owner disputes
  • Disputes arising from business or share sales
  • Contractual disputes
  • Debt recovery
  • Coordinating litigation in the local courts via our local advocate firm
  • DIFC Courts and DIFC Small Claims Tribunal litigation and enforcement management
  • Arbitration proceedings and enforcement


Banks Legal is Part 1 registered with the DIFC Courts. For local UAE Court matters we work with a local firm of advocates. For complex and cross-border litigation and arbitration matters, we have a trusted network of external litigators and arbitrators at our disposal.

If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Startups & SMEs

We are well recognised in the market for supporting startups and SMEs, through various stages of growth, due to the depth of our legal expertise and personalised service. We are specialists in establishing companies in the UAE and jurisdictions beyond. This includes:

  • Trust establishment and administration
  • Supporting market feasibility exercises
  • Creating and protecting value
  • Building teams and strategic alliances
  • Customer and supplier terms and conditions
  • Capital raising (including seed funding, angel investing, crowd funding, venture capital, strategic investment)
  • Founder, investment, and shareholder agreements
  • M&A transactions (exits and acquisitions)


As registered agents for the Ras Al Khaimah International Corporate Centre (RAKICC), we offer clients a complete and seamless service for RAKICC establishment and administration.

If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Foreign Direct Investment

We have extensive experience advising clients on market entry and setting up all types of business structures including:

  • Market entry legal analysis and options advice
  • UAE onshore company establishment
  • UAE Free Zone company establishment
  • UAE offshore company establishment
  • GCC trading models and company establishment
  • Restructurings
  • Business licensing and regulatory matters
  • Company dissolution and de-registration


If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Real Estate

We offer a complete one-stop-shop for your conveyancing and real estate transaction services. Our team can assist and manage real estate transactions end-to-end, ensuring contracts go through smoothly, till completion, with minimal effort required from you. Our end-to-end services include:

  • Due diligence and purchasing property consultation
  • Drafting reviewing property documentation to cover all types of transactions
  • Acting as an escrow agent
  • Representing buyer and seller under Power of Attorney
  • Manage or accompany valuer for property inspection
  • Liaise with financial provider for mortgage settlement
  • Follow up and organize collection for clearance documents (if applicable)
  • Preparation of statement for completion
  • Obtain No Objection Certificate (NOC) from developer


If you require guidance outside of the UAE, we can seamlessly access other experts through our networks remaining as your single point of contact, or we can work within a team of advisors.

Cryptocurrency & Web 3

We have and can procure extensive experience in this emerging space and have worked across a range of matters. Our support covers:

  • Market entry legal analysis and options advice for crypto and blockchain related companies, both in the GCC & internationally
  • Structuring advice and establishment of crypto investment iunds
  • Providing a legally compliant business strategy for business/fund roadmap
  • Advice on regulatory compliance issues and AML /
  • KYC issues
  • Drafting of legal documents
  • Ongoing support to ensure regulatory compliance
  • Advice on the ADGM DLT Foundation regime
  • Establishment and licensing of ADGM DLT
  • Foundations as a licensed CSP
  • Assistance with maintenance and adherence to on-going DLT Foundation compliance obligations
Escrow Agent Services

Our team has a sound understanding of local and international financial regulations, enabling us to offer comprehensive legal solutions. Our services focus on the following key areas:

  • Drafting and reviewing financial agreements and conducting due diligence
  • Advising on regulatory compliance
  • Providing legal guidance on FINTECH financial innovations
  • Advising on restructuring strategies and drafting restructuring agreements
Banking & Finance

Our team has a sound understanding of local and international financial regulations, enabling us to offer comprehensive legal solutions. Our services focus on the following key areas:

  • Drafting and reviewing financial agreements and conducting due diligence
  • Advising on regulatory compliance
  • Providing legal guidance on FINTECH financial innovations
  • Advising on restructuring strategies and drafting restructuring agreements
Taxation

Our team provides expert guidance and comprehensive solutions in the realm of taxation including:

  • Advising on tax planning and tax-efficient business structures, transactions, and investments
  • Guidance on compliance with changing tax laws
  • Advising on tax implications and corporate tax planning strategies
  • Providing dispute resolution services in tax matters

We deliver our services with a focus on quality and achieving impressive resultsOur legal expertise protects your interests and achieves meaningful outcomes. Whether handling litigation, transactions, or asset protection, we are committed to excellence.