Bilingual Standard
Documents prepared bilingually with attention to the Arabic text, which governs before the local courts.
Documents are read closely only twice. Once when they are drafted, and once when something has gone wrong. What was written the first time decides what happens the second.
Dubai Legal Expert provides legal drafting and documentation services across the UAE, covering contracts, corporate documents, declarations, notices and the full range of instruments businesses and individuals need.
Documents intended to work here need to account for how UAE courts approach them. Proceedings are conducted in Arabic, bilingual documents are the practical standard, and where versions conflict the Arabic text generally governs before the local courts.
Beyond language, certain provisions behave differently under UAE law than they do elsewhere. Agreed compensation clauses can be adjusted by the court, arbitration clauses require specific signing authority, and some liability limitations are applied more narrowly than the drafting assumes.
Contact UsSupply, service, distribution, agency and bespoke commercial agreements drafted for UAE law.
Resolutions, shareholder documents, authority matrices and signatory instruments.
Declarations, undertakings, powers of attorney and personal agreements.
Review of agreements presented to you, with a clear written list of the risks and recommended changes.
Standard document sets built for businesses that repeat the same transactions frequently.
Documents prepared bilingually with attention to the Arabic text, which governs before the local courts.
Drafted for how UAE courts actually apply these provisions rather than for how they read elsewhere.
Arbitration and other clauses requiring specific authority are flagged and handled correctly.
Clear defined terms and structure, because a document nobody can follow is a document nobody complies with.
Standard sets built for repeat transactions so routine deals stop requiring bespoke drafting.
Documents presented to you reviewed with a written risk list rather than a general comment.
A large proportion of the contracts we are asked to review are foreign templates used unchanged. They contain governing law and jurisdiction provisions that do not fit, remedies that are not available here, and no Arabic version at all.
They function until there is a dispute, at which point the party relying on them discovers that the clause they were counting on is not enforceable in the form drafted. Adapting the document properly at the outset avoids that entirely.
Understand the transaction, draft for UAE law, then keep it usable.
We establish what the document must achieve, who the parties are and what could go wrong.
The structure and key provisions are agreed before full drafting begins.
The document is drafted with attention to both language versions and the Arabic text in particular.
You review the draft and we revise until the commercial position is accurately reflected.
Signing authority, notarisation and registration requirements are handled where applicable.
Where the document will be reused, it is maintained and updated as circumstances change.
Our supplier agreement was a template from another country with no Arabic version. Redrafting it took a week and removed years of risk.
The standard document set they built means our routine contracts no longer need a lawyer each time.
Bilingual documents are the practical standard, and before the local courts the Arabic version generally governs where the two versions conflict.
It can be a starting point, but it usually requires adaptation for governing law, available remedies and language before it works here.
Agreed compensation clauses are recognised, but a UAE court may adjust the amount to correspond to the loss actually suffered.
Yes. We review documents presented to you and provide a written list of risks and recommended changes.
Yes. Standard document sets for repeat transactions are one of the most cost effective things a business can commission.
Certain clauses, including arbitration agreements, require specific authority to bind the company, and we address this at drafting stage.
Whether it is one agreement or a full standard set, the first consultation is free.
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