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The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently released its Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) 2023 Annual Report to Congress....more
The healthcare and life sciences ecosystem is witnessing significant growth in the Middle East as the GCC continues to seek economic diversification. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are...more
In World Law Group's Doing Business In Guide, member firms around the globe share how to successfully do business in their countries, key investment sectors, and what business opportunities are hot in the market right now. In...more
This guide provides an overview of the principal legal issues for foreign investors considering doing business in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE). Formed on December 2, 1971, the UAE is a federal state of seven emirates...more
The Abraham Accords Peace Agreement of 13 August 2020 (the Abraham Accords) heralded the normalization of diplomatic and business relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (the UAE). This historic regional shift...more
The Securities and Commodities Authority of the United Arab Emirates (“SCA”) recently adopted certain changes to the rules governing the distribution of foreign funds in the UAE, pursuant to which several methods for...more
The UAE led the Middle East and North Africa region with the highest FDI inflows (i.e. - purchasing of assets in another country). The UAE has made it to the top 20 host economies in terms of FDI inflows, according to a...more
The Report shows that CFIUS reviewed a record number of filings in 2022 and also required more mitigation as a condition of clearance. On July 31, 2023, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)...more
Despite global shocks and forecasts of a global recession, economies in the Middle East showed "extraordinarily fast" growth in 2022, according to the World Bank. The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)—the United...more
Now in its seventh year of annual publication, White & Case's Foreign Direct Investment Reviews provides a comprehensive look into rapidly evolving foreign direct investment (FDI) laws and regulations in approximately 40...more
The Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) recently issued eight decisions which, among other things, reform the regulatory regime for investment funds domiciled in the onshore United Arab Emirates (UAE) and...more
Strong diplomatic and economic ties have long existed between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and North Africa but there are other levers at play for deepening economic relations....more
The regulation of foreign direct investment, or FDI, has been in the spotlight for most of 2022 and will likely remain a key issue for dealmakers and cross-border M&A in 2023. Globally, we continue to see a trend towards...more
On 13 September 2022, the UAE Ministry of Justice issued a directive which confirms that judgments issued by the English Courts can be enforced by the UAE Courts under the principle of reciprocity (the "Directive"). The...more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has made significant updates to its laws governing commercial activity in recent years, has again revised and refined the statutory landscape for companies in the country. The issuance of...more
In September 2020, the UAE Cabinet of Ministers (the Cabinet) issued Law No. 26 of 2020 (the Amendment) which amended certain provisions of the UAE Companies Law No. 2 of 2015 (the Companies Law). The amendments include...more
In November 2020, we released a client alert (available here) outlining significant amendments to the U.A.E.’s Companies Law that were yet to take effect at the time of writing. Most importantly, these amendments were to...more
World Law Group member firms recently collaborated on a Global Venture Capital Guide that covers more than 30 jurisdictions on investment approval processes, typical investment sectors and investment structures on Venture...more
In our previous client alert, we reported that certain key changes were introduced to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Commercial Companies Law No. 2 of 2015 (Companies Law). The text of the Federal-Decree Law No. 26 of 2020...more
In a previous client alert, we provided a high-level summary of the key changes introduced to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Commercial Companies Law No. 2 of 2015 pursuant to Federal Decree Law No. 26 of 2020 (the Federal...more
New changes to UAE corporate and foreign ownership laws will abolish longstanding foreign ownership restrictions and remove substantial barriers to doing business in the UAE. ...more
On 23 November 2020, the UAE government announced that His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE had issued a decree (the “Decree”), amending existing foreign ownership rules for onshore UAE...more
Introduction - On 23 November 2020, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), issued a decree overhauling the rules relating to foreign ownership of companies in the UAE (the Decree) by...more
This briefing supplements our previous Dechert OnPoint briefings “Alert on New UAE FDI Law,” and “UAE FDI Law Positive List Confirmed” which discussed the introduction of the Foreign Direct Investment Law (Federal Decree-Law...more
Climate Change Litigation on the Horizon with Trump Environmental Overhaul - On July 16, 2020, President Trump’s Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) published the long-awaited final rule revising the implementing...more