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Legal Connect Practice Areas
Corporate & Commercial
Businesses setting up in the UAE, negotiating agreements, restructuring ownership, or navigating a corporate transaction.
Disputes & Litigation
Individuals or businesses involved in a dispute that has not been resolved through negotiation and may require court proceedings.
Arbitration
Businesses with an arbitration clause in a contract, or those seeking a private alternative to court litigation.
Real Estate
Buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, developers, or investors navigating a UAE property transaction or dispute.
Employment
Employees facing a workplace dispute, or employers managing contracts, terminations, or compliance with UAE labor law.
Family
Individuals navigating divorce, custody arrangements, or other family matters, particularly where cross-border issues are involved.
Criminal
Individuals facing a criminal investigation, charge, or arrest who need urgent, credible legal representation.
Banking & Finance
Businesses and individuals dealing with financing agreements, regulatory compliance, or disputes involving banks and financial institutions.
Construction
Developers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, or property owners negotiating, signing, or administering the contracts for a construction project.
Intellectual Property
Businesses and individuals looking to protect, register, license, or enforce intellectual property rights.
Immigration
Individuals and businesses navigating UAE visa applications, residency matters, or immigration compliance.
Tax
Businesses and individuals seeking advice on UAE corporate tax, VAT compliance, or tax-related disputes.
Private Client
High-net-worth individuals and families seeking to structure, protect, or transfer wealth across generations or jurisdictions.
Crypto & Digital Assets
Businesses and individuals operating in crypto, blockchain, or digital assets who need to navigate an evolving regulatory landscape.
Wills, Estates & Inheritance
Expats who own property, hold business shares, or have children in the UAE and want their estate distributed according to their own wishes rather than default statutory rules.
Debt Recovery & Collections
Individuals and businesses owed money by a client, partner, employer, or another party who has not paid despite requests.
Personal Injury & Compensation
Anyone injured due to an accident, negligence, or another party’s actions, who wants to understand their options for compensation.
Cybercrime & Digital Fraud
Anyone who has been scammed online, had an account compromised, or experienced harassment or fraud through digital channels.
Data Protection & Privacy
Businesses that collect or process personal data and want to understand their compliance obligations, or individuals with concerns about how their data has been handled.
Insurance Law & Claims
Anyone whose insurance claim has been rejected, delayed, or underpaid, or who disputes how an insurer has interpreted their policy.
Company Formation & Business Setup
Entrepreneurs and businesses planning to establish a legal presence in the UAE, whether a new startup or an expansion from another country.
Medical Malpractice & Healthcare
Patients or families who believe they experienced harm due to negligent medical treatment, or healthcare providers facing a liability matter.
Maritime & Shipping
Shipping companies, cargo owners, logistics businesses, and others involved in maritime trade or transport disputes in the UAE.
Consumer Protection
Individuals who bought a product or service that didn’t meet expectations, was misrepresented, or where a business has refused a reasonable refund or repair.
Franchise Law
Entrepreneurs looking to become a franchisee, business owners wanting to franchise their own concept, and either party facing a franchise dispute.
International & Cross-Border Legal Matters
Individuals and businesses whose legal situation involves more than one country, whether family, assets, contracts, or a dispute with an international dimension.
VARA Virtual Asset Regulation
Virtual asset service providers licensed by VARA in Dubai, outside the DIFC, together with their Responsible Individuals and compliance teams, and any business or individual VARA is examining or taking enforcement action against, whether the need is keeping up with VARA’s rulebooks, co-operating with an examination, or responding to an enforcement measure.
CMA Securities Regulation (formerly SCA)
Businesses involved in securities, investment activities, or investment-related virtual assets at the federal UAE level, outside the free zone frameworks.
Tokenization & Digital Asset Structuring
Businesses and asset owners exploring tokenization of real estate, equity, revenue streams, or other assets, and needing to understand the applicable legal and regulatory treatment.
AML & Financial Crime Compliance
Businesses applying for or holding a VARA, DFSA, or FSRA licence, payment and fintech companies, real estate brokerages, corporate service providers, and any UAE business facing an AML-related regulatory inquiry or finding.
Regulatory Investigations & Enforcement Defence
Licensed businesses and individuals under examination, inquiry or enforcement action by VARA, the DFSA, the FSRA, the CBUAE, the Capital Market Authority or the Ministry of Economy and Tourism, and any regulated firm that wants an internal investigation run properly before a regulator’s findings are issued.
Restructuring & Insolvency
Distressed businesses and their directors, secured and unsecured creditors, and any mainland UAE, DIFC or ADGM entity considering restructuring options, bankruptcy protection, liquidation, or a distressed asset sale.
Funds & Asset Management
Fund managers and sponsors structuring or licensing a fund in mainland UAE, the DIFC or ADGM, investors seeking to understand a fund’s structure or disclosures, and any manager marketing across more than one of these jurisdictions without an available passporting mechanism.
Competition & Merger Control
Businesses considering a merger, acquisition or joint venture with UAE turnover or market share, companies facing a Ministry of Economy and Tourism inquiry into dominance or restrictive agreements, and any business wanting a competition law compliance review of its distribution or pricing arrangements.
White-Collar & Financial Crime Defence
Individuals and businesses facing a fraud, bribery, money laundering or bounced cheque allegation, anyone subject to a travel ban or asset freeze connected to a financial crime matter, and designated non-financial businesses navigating AML/CFT-related exposure.
Trusts, Foundations & Family Office
This category is for UAE-resident and international families, business owners and family offices who need a lawyer — not a company-formation agent — to design or run a trust, foundation or family-governance structure. That includes founders planning succession for a family business, high-net-worth individuals consolidating international assets under a UAE-based vehicle, family offices choosing between a DIFC or ADGM registration, and trustees, protectors or beneficiaries who need independent advice once a structure already exists.
Notary, Attestation & Document Legalisation
This category is for anyone who needs a UAE document notarised, or a foreign document legalised for UAE use — or a UAE document legalised for use abroad. That includes individuals executing a power of attorney before travelling, companies notarising corporate resolutions, families attesting marriage or education certificates, and anyone who has been quoted 'Apostille' services for a UAE-bound or UAE-issued document and wants to check that's actually the right process before they pay for it.
Healthcare Regulatory & Licensing
This category is for healthcare operators, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, telehealth providers, pharmaceutical and medical-device businesses, and healthcare investors who need a lawyer for the regulatory and licensing side of the business — not a patient pursuing a malpractice claim, which sits under LEXNOVA's separate medical malpractice category. It's also relevant to healthcare practitioners facing a licensing, disciplinary or regulatory-compliance issue with DHA, DOH, MOHAP or the Emirates Drug Establishment.
Education Law
This category is for private schools, nurseries, training institutes, higher-education providers and international branch campuses navigating KHDA, ADEK or federal accreditation requirements, as well as parents and students facing a dispute with a school over fees, admissions, discipline or special-educational-needs provision, and education businesses structuring curriculum-licensing, franchise or faculty-employment arrangements.
Media, Gaming & Creator Economy Licensing
This category is for media companies, production houses, broadcasters, streaming platforms, game studios and publishers, esports organisers, influencers and talent agencies, and any commercial gaming operator, vendor or key person needing GCGRA licensing, as well as platforms whose users include children and need to navigate the UAE's child-digital-safety and advertising restrictions.
Virtual Asset Licensing
This category is for founders, exchanges, brokers, custodians, token issuers, asset managers, payment businesses and their investors who need a lawyer — not a company-formation agent — to establish which UAE regulator's perimeter their activity falls within and to take the application through. It also covers financial institutions adding virtual asset services, groups licensed in one perimeter that now want to serve another, and businesses that have discovered mid-build that the regime they planned around is not the one that governs them.
Construction Disputes & Claims
This category is for employers, developers, main contractors, subcontractors, consultants and engineers with a live or imminent construction claim in the UAE, and for the insurers and funders standing behind one. It covers the contractor sitting on an unpaid certificate, the developer facing a defect claim years after handover, and the counterparty who has just discovered that its arbitration clause names an institution that no longer exists.
Islamic Finance
This category is for Islamic banks, finance companies, Takaful operators, fund managers and conventional institutions running or planning an Islamic window, together with sukuk issuers, arrangers and investors, and for the boards, ISSC members and compliance heads who carry these obligations personally. It also covers firms in DIFC and ADGM seeking or holding an Islamic endorsement, and any business told a product is Shari’ah-compliant that wants an independent lawyer to test what the claim rests on.
Mergers & Acquisitions
This category is for anyone on either side of a UAE business sale who needs a lawyer rather than a corporate services agent: founders selling all or part of a company, strategic and private equity buyers, venture investors taking or exiting a stake, family businesses bringing in an outside shareholder, and in-house counsel running a transaction alongside their day job. It is also for parties who have already signed and are working out what has to be notified, approved or filed before they are allowed to complete.
AI & Technology Governance
This category is for anyone deploying, building or buying AI in the UAE who needs to know what actually applies rather than what a policy document aspires to: founders and product teams shipping AI features to UAE users, boards and in-house counsel writing an AI governance policy, HR teams using automated screening, financial institutions working out what the sector guidance obliges them to do, and platforms with UAE-directed services. It is also for anyone handed a compliance memorandum citing UAE AI “rules” who wants to know which of them are law.
Golden Visa
This category is for real estate investors and business owners weighing the AED 2,000,000 investor threshold; entrepreneurs and founders assembling an incubator or Ministry of Economy approval package; scientists, scholars and other specialists whose profile may fit the Talented Persons or Scientists & Specialists categories; skilled employees, top students and humanitarian-sector professionals checking whether their category is currently being processed; and any Golden Visa holder or applicant who wants to sponsor a spouse, adult children or parents. It is equally for anyone who has been told a “lifetime” Golden Visa is available through a consultancy for a flat fee, and wants to understand what the scheme actually requires before relying on that claim.
Tenancy & Rental Disputes
Tenants facing an eviction notice, a rent increase, a withheld deposit or ignored maintenance; landlords dealing with unpaid rent, a tenant who will not leave, damage or unauthorised subletting; overseas owners acting through a property manager or an attorney; business tenants and commercial landlords of shops, offices and warehouses; and anyone signing, renewing or leaving a lease, or unsure whether Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, DIFC or ADGM rules apply.
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Dubai
Looking for legal assistance in Dubai? LEXNOVA Legal Connect helps individuals and businesses describe their requirements and explore potentially suitable legal professionals from our network.
Abu Dhabi
Looking for legal assistance in Abu Dhabi? LEXNOVA Legal Connect helps individuals and businesses describe their requirements and explore potentially suitable legal professionals from our network.
Sharjah
Looking for legal assistance in Sharjah? LEXNOVA Legal Connect helps individuals and businesses describe their requirements and explore potentially suitable legal professionals from our network.
Ajman
Looking for legal assistance in Ajman? LEXNOVA Legal Connect helps individuals and businesses describe their requirements and explore potentially suitable legal professionals from our network.
the DIFC
DIFC-related legal matters may involve specific legal and jurisdictional considerations. LEXNOVA Legal Connect helps you describe your requirements and explore potentially suitable legal professionals familiar with the DIFC framework.
the ADGM
ADGM-related legal matters may involve specific legal and jurisdictional considerations. LEXNOVA Legal Connect helps you describe your requirements and explore potentially suitable legal professionals familiar with Abu Dhabi's international business ecosystem.
the UAE
Legal matters across the UAE may involve different emirate-level, federal, and free-zone frameworks. LEXNOVA Legal Connect helps individuals and businesses describe their requirements and explore potentially suitable legal professionals from our network.
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