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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.
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Publications
Neue gesellschaftsrechtliche Bestimmungen in der „Dubai Airport Free Zone“
Saudi Arabia: Judicial Reforms and Regional Headquarter Requirements Announced
UAE: FEDERAL DECREE LAW NO. 26 OF 2020 –AT A GLANCE
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
Saudi Arabia’s New Companies’ Law
German-Saudi Business Magazine (GSBM): Edition December 2023
Saudi-Arabien: Das Regional Headquarters Programm (RHQ)
Dubai Executive Council Resolution No. 11 of 2025: A Game Changer for Free Zone Businesses?
New UBO Disclosure Requirements in Saudi Arabia Effective from April 2025
News
Pakistan accedes to Apostille Convention on legalisation of public documents
Live Event: KSA: New Companies Law – Highlighting Changes and New Opportunities
Online Event: VAE: Export & Niederlassungen - Praktisches Rechtswissen im Überblick
Live Veranstaltung: VAE / Saudi-Arabien: Markterschließung, Messeteilnahme und Recht
Online Event: Pakistan: Legal Framework – Individual Consultations
OECD and Saudi Arabia Signed MoU to Deepen Cooperation
Live-Event: UAE + Saudi Arabia: Export & Niederlassungen
Live-Webinar: Saudi-Arabien: Wirtschaftsupdate und neues Vertragsrecht
UAE + Saudi Arabia: Export & Niederlassungen
Live Webinar: Neue Märkte im Fokus – VAE
Live-Veranstaltung: UAE + Saudi-Arabien - Recht & Vertragsgestaltung bie Export & Vertriebsaufbau
Live Webinar: Legal Updates KSA: The New Foreign Investment Law & More