Legal Strategy for Complex Realities
LexLoom Legal & Tax is a UAE-based consultancy providing corporate legal advisory across structuring, taxation, governance, and compliance matters.
We assist international entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate groups in navigating the UAE legal framework through tailored support in business setup, compliance, and regulatory alignment across both mainland and Free Zones. Our work extends across commercial transactions, real estate, M&A, taxation, and regulatory matters, including AML compliance and training for DNFBPs.
Our practice covers all strategic UAE jurisdictions, as well as cross-border structuring, tax-efficient holding frameworks, trusts, private foundations, and asset protection strategies.
We work alongside our clients as legal and strategic advisors, offering practical solutions with discretion and attention to commercial objectives.
Commercial Law
We support clients in structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements that underpin business growth, investment protection, and long-term partnerships. Our work includes joint venture arrangements, shareholders’ agreements, partnership frameworks, strategic collaborations, service contracts, and commercial terms governing cross-border operations.
We are often involved from the early stages of structuring or re-negotiating contractual relationships to ensure alignment with regulatory, tax, and governance objectives. Whether the focus is on establishing a new venture, formalising relationships between equity partners, or managing risk in high-value transactions, we provide legal insight that combines clarity, enforceability, and strategic depth.
Our approach is grounded in a strong understanding of both legal and commercial priorities, allowing us to craft agreements that are not only compliant but also operationally sound and built for continuity.
Commercial agreements covering joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, partnerships, and cross-border operations, designed to secure compliance, protect investments, and ensure strategic alignment, enforceability, and continuity in high-value business relationships.
Company Structuring
We assist clients in structuring and establishing companies tailored to their commercial objectives, ownership strategies, and regulatory requirements. Our work includes the design of holding structures, the incorporation of UAE mainland and free zone entities, and the negotiation of shareholders’ agreements and joint venture frameworks that reflect each party’s rights, responsibilities, and long-term vision.
We provide guidance from the earliest planning phases, advising on jurisdictional selection, governance architecture, capital structuring, and regulatory alignment. Whether setting up a new venture, reorganising an existing group, or formalising relationships among shareholders, our support ensures clarity, control, and strategic consistency.
Our approach combines technical precision with a deep understanding of business dynamics, allowing us to create legal structures that are not only compliant but also operationally resilient and strategically coherent over time.
Structuring of companies and holding frameworks tailored to commercial goals and regulatory requirements, with attention to governance, compliance, and shareholder arrangements to ensure clarity, resilience, and strategic alignment over time.
Corporate Governance
We place a strong emphasis on the development of clear and effective governance structures that promote transparency, accountability, and long-term stability. Our work supports boards, shareholders, and executive teams in defining rules, roles, and responsibilities that reflect both legal requirements and strategic intent. We advise on the design and implementation of governance frameworks, voting rights, board composition, delegation systems, and internal controls, ensuring alignment with local regulations as well as international best practices. Whether supporting a family-owned business, a private investment structure, or a regulated entity, we help build systems that are both functional and resilient. Our approach is tailored, pragmatic, and focused on strengthening decision-making processes, preserving continuity, and enabling effective oversight.
Governance frameworks addressing board composition, voting rights, delegation, and internal controls, structured to ensure transparency, accountability, and resilience while aligning legal requirements with strategic objectives and international best practices.
Mergers & Acquistions
Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganisations handled across industries and jurisdictions, including share and asset deals, joint ventures, carve-outs, and strategic investments. Work spans structuring, due diligence, negotiations, documentation, and regulatory coordination, ensuring compliance and alignment with broader commercial objectives.
Support extends through the entire transaction lifecycle, from initial design to closing, covering shareholder arrangements, purchase agreements, ancillary contracts, and filings with relevant authorities. Complex scenarios such as unsolicited bids, takeovers, and cross-border mergers are managed with tailored strategies that balance risk and opportunity.
The approach combines technical precision with a practical view of governance and finance, delivering solutions that protect stakeholder interests while enabling transactions to proceed with clarity and confidence.
Mergers, acquisitions, and reorganisations across industries and jurisdictions, including share and asset deals, joint ventures, and strategic investments, managed with due diligence, compliance, and risk-aware structuring to ensure continuity and stakeholder protection.
Maritime & Shipping Law
We advise clients active in the maritime and shipping sectors on the legal frameworks governing vessel ownership, chartering, registration, financing, and regulatory compliance. Our clients include shipowners, operators, cargo interests, insurers, and maritime service providers seeking legal support across both transactional and operational matters, as well as in the resolution of disputes.
Our work covers flag registration, ship sale and purchase agreements, charterparty contracts, ship finance documentation, and the structuring of ownership and crewing arrangements. We also assist with regulatory matters and contractual risk allocation, with a particular focus on the requirements of internationally recognised maritime jurisdictions.
Whether supporting a vessel acquisition, advising on operational liabilities, or acting in connection with shipping-related disputes, we combine legal precision with sector insight. Our approach is commercially aware, detail-oriented, and designed to protect maritime assets while supporting operational continuity across jurisdictions.
Maritime and shipping matters including vessel ownership, registration, chartering, financing, and dispute resolution, with frameworks structured to protect assets, ensure compliance, and support operational continuity across internationally recognised jurisdictions.
Tax Advisory
We support business owners, investors, family offices, and private clients in designing tax structures that are both efficient and legally sound, integrating tax advisory with governance frameworks, ownership models, and succession architecture. Our work is grounded in the belief that tax planning should align with broader legal and strategic considerations, not exist apart from them.
We operate at the intersection of corporate, international, and personal tax regimes, with particular focus on inbound and outbound strategies involving the UAE. Whether the objective is to structure a group holding, optimise the tax impact of a business exit, relocate a wealth-holding entity, or align personal asset portfolios with long-term residency goals, we tailor each solution to match the client’s strategic horizon and regulatory environment.
All advice is provided directly by senior professionals and reflects a comprehensive understanding of both local and cross-border frameworks. We place particular emphasis on legality, continuity, and structural clarity, avoiding generic solutions and ensuring that each strategy is both compliant and strategically coherent.
Tax structuring for business owners, investors, and families, integrating governance, ownership, and succession models with corporate and international tax regimes to ensure compliance, efficiency, and long-term strategic alignment across jurisdictions.
Will & Estate Planning
We draft Wills tailored to the specific circumstances of expatriates who reside in the UAE or hold assets within the country, addressing the complex intersection between personal intentions and local legal frameworks. Our approach ensures that the testator’s wishes are clearly articulated and fully enforceable, while taking into account applicable succession laws, family structures, and cross-border considerations.
We assist with the registration of Wills before both the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Wills Service and the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Courts, offering guidance on procedural requirements and strategic structuring. Whether the goal is to secure real estate, protect business interests, or provide clarity and certainty to family members, our work ensures that estate planning reflects both personal intent and legal effectiveness.
Wills for expatriates in the UAE prepared to align personal intent with succession laws, ensuring enforceability and clarity while protecting assets through registration with DIFC or ADGM and addressing family, business, and cross-border considerations.
Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
Our Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services are designed to handle the nuanced dynamics of conflict resolution with discretion, precision, and a clear strategic framework. We assist clients in resolving disputes efficiently and constructively, minimising disruption and preserving commercial and professional relationships wherever possible.
Whether the matter involves contractual disagreements, internal governance issues, shareholder conflicts, employment-related claims, or cross-border commercial disputes, our approach priorities resolution over escalation, tailoring each engagement to the specific legal, operational, and relational context, applying structured negotiation, mediation, or arbitration techniques as appropriate.
Alternative Dispute Resolution services focused on negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, aimed at resolving contractual, governance, shareholder, employment, and cross-border disputes with discretion and efficiency while minimising disruption and preserving relationships.
Trademark & IP Protection
We provide comprehensive legal services in the field of Intellectual Property (IP), assisting clients in the registration, protection, and strategic use of their intellectual assets. Our work spans trademark and copyright registration, licensing agreements, IP assignments, trade secret protection, and enforcement actions, including litigation in cases of infringement. Whether the objective is to safeguard creative output, structure commercial exploitation through licensing, or respond to unauthorised use, our team delivers tailored advice that combines legal precision with a practical understanding of business priorities. We help clients navigate both local and cross-border IP frameworks, ensuring that their intangible assets are secured.
Intellectual property services covering registration, licensing, assignments, trade secrets, and enforcement, structured to safeguard creative assets, support commercial exploitation, and ensure protection across local and cross-border frameworks with clarity and foresight.
Real Estate Law
We assist throughout the full legal lifecycle of real estate transactions in the UAE, from acquisition structuring and title verification to lease drafting, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution. Our services cover both residential and commercial property matters across all seven emirates, combining thorough legal due diligence, detailed review of sale and development agreements, strategic advice on landlord-tenant relations, and cross-border structuring support for international investors and asset-holding entities.
Whether dealing with off-plan purchases, complex lease negotiations, or RERA-related disputes, LexLoom provides strategic, jurisdiction-aware legal guidance tailored to the evolving dynamics of the UAE real estate market. We also alert and assist clients in evaluating potential eligibility for long-term residence options linked to property ownership, including Golden Visa programmes.
Real estate legal services in the UAE covering acquisitions, leases, compliance, disputes, and cross-border structuring, supported by due diligence and strategic guidance, including assessment of residency options such as Golden Visa programmes.
Legal Review & Simplification
We review and improve the structure, language, and usability of legal documents to make them clear, consistent, and effective.
From contracts and shareholder agreements to internal policies and regulatory texts, we reduce ambiguity, align content, and ensure that legal materials are easier to apply.
We help companies, founders, investors, and legal teams simplify complex documents, streamline contracts, and turn legal obligations into useful tools that support better decisions. Legal clarity means faster negotiations, fewer misunderstandings, and stronger alignment. By improving how legal content is written and organised, we reduce friction, improve compliance, and support more reliable operations.
Review and optimisation of legal documents to enhance clarity, consistency, and usability, reducing ambiguity and complexity while aligning contracts, agreements, and policies to support compliance, efficient negotiations, and stronger operational outcomes.
Compliance & Legal Training
We provide advanced legal training focused on anti-money laundering (AML), regulatory compliance, and the specific obligations of DNFBPs (Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions) operating in the UAE. Our programs are designed for compliance officers, legal teams, and senior management across sectors such as real estate, corporate services, audit, legal consultancy, and precious metals and stones.
Training is delivered in person or remotely and adapted to each client’s regulatory profile and operational context. Core topics include risk-based AML strategies, UBO identification, KYC protocols, STR filing, and compliance with UAE Cabinet Decision No. 10 of 2019. Beyond training, we offer practical toolkits, multilingual briefing packs, and ongoing updates to support internal compliance and audit processes with clarity and consistency.
Advanced AML and compliance training for DNFBPs in the UAE, covering UBO identification, KYC, STR filing, and regulatory obligations, delivered with practical tools and updates to strengthen internal controls and audit readiness.
LexLoom Legal & Tax supports business owners, investors, and asset holders by aligning legal frameworks with long-term strategic objectives. We help protect and structure both personal and corporate interests through tailored advice that integrates governance, ownership, and succession planning into a clear and resilient vision.
Each engagement is handled directly by experienced professionals, without intermediaries, ensuring precise, efficient, and strategically focused work that respects your time and priorities.
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LexLoom Legal & Tax is the joint trading name of Lexloom Legal FZ LLE (License No. 18724/2023, Fujairah Creative City – Media Free Zone) and Lexloom Tax Consultant – Dubai Branch of Lexloom Legal FZ LLE (License No. 1381672, Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism).
All legal services are provided exclusively by Lexloom Legal FZ LLE.
Corporate services are provided in association with Prudenter Management Consultancies LLC Dubai.
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