Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate restructuring, including mergers & acquisitions, have become an important tool for businesses to stimulate growth, gain competitive advantages and increase market shares. With more than 25 years of experience in the Middle East, SCHLÜTER GRAF has a profound understanding of the business and legal environment in the Middle East. We deliver expert legal advice, tailored to our client’s commercial objectives and strategies, enabling a successful business set-up in the Middle East.

SCHLÜTER GRAF’s corporate clients range from both local and international SME’s, to family owned businesses and multinational companies in sectors such as trade, aviation, healthcare, service, manufacturing, information technology, real estate, and transportation.

Our corporate lawyers have considerable cross-jurisdictional expertise in acting on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, compliance, and onshore/offshore company set-ups across the Middle East.

Publications

EAU: lmplementación De La Nueva Normativa De lnversión Extranjera En Las LLC (Federal Decree Law N.º 26 de 2020)

VAE: PRAKTISCHE UMSETZUNG DER NEUEN DIREKTINVESTITIONSBESTIMMUNGEN FÜR AUSLÄN-DISCHE INVESTOREN IN EMIRATISCHEN GESELLSCHAFTEN (BUNDESGESETZ NR. 26 AUS 2020)

UAE: Practical Implementation of new Foreign Direct Investment rules for LLCs (Federal Decree Law No. 26 of 2020)

Neue gesellschaftsrechtliche Bestimmungen in der „Dubai Airport Free Zone“

DUBAI: PRAKTISCHE UMSETZUNG DES BUNDESGESETZES NR. 26 AUS 2020 FÜR NIEDERLASSUNGEN AUSL ÄNDISCHER UNTERNEHMEN

Saudi Arabia: Judicial Reforms and Regional Headquarter Requirements Announced

UAE: FEDERAL DECREE LAW NO. 26 OF 2020 –AT A GLANCE

UAE: Amended Commercial Companies Law (Federal Decree Law No. 26 of 2020), 49-51 Rule and FDI Law abolished

UAE announces Overhaul of Companies Law to Permit 100% Foreign Ownership in Mainland Companies

UAE: The Positive List-Opening the Floodgates to Full Ownership in the United Arab Emirates?

UAE: Dubai's One Free Zone Passport Initiative

GCC: Managing Localisation Programs - Is it time for a Chief Localisation Officer (CLO)?

UAE: VAT and Carrying out Projects without a Set-up in the UAE

DIFC Foundations Law and Protection of Assets

SAUDI ARABIA'S NEW COMPANIES LAW ADOPTED BY CABINET

The Draft New Companies Law in KSA

Pakistan accedes to Apostille Convention on legalisation of public documents

KSA: New Companies Law

Saudi Arabia’s New Companies’ Law

German-Saudi Business Magazine (GSBM): Edition December 2023