With over forty years’ worth of experience in the UAE, we’re no strangers to this market. We started here and we continue to grow here. Our team have been sourced both locally and internationally, speak a number of languages and are experts at practicing law in the Middle East. We represent many international businesses, particularly in finance, real estate and insurance sectors. We are committed to knowing how the law develops across the region and are determined to help others be successful.
our corporate & commercial department
encompasses everything from company formation; employment law matters; and insurance to winding up, bankruptcy and liquidation advice and procedure.
Through our forty years in the UAE, we have been called upon to advise on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters. Whether it is company formation, employment law, mergers and acquisitions, or intellectual property matters: our multi-lingual team of attorneys are ready to assist.
baitulhikma’s diverse team of corporate and commercial attorneys come from a wide
range of backgrounds and legal traditions, ensuring that we understand your needs.
baitulhikma’s litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice over forty years’
worth of experience and has been involved in some of the region’s largest disputes
Our litigation and dispute resolution department forms the backbone on which all other departments are built on; and covers everything ranging from banking and finance disputes, to insurance/reinsurance claims and large-scale real estate disputes and class action employment suits.
Baitulhikma's litigation expertise extends to disputes before the Dubai International
Financial Centre Courts, Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts as well as the arbitration boards
under the management of local arbitration bodies such as the Dubai International
Arbitration Centre and the Abu Dhabi Commercial
Conciliation and Arbitration Centre.
Baitulhikma law firm has been at the forefront of the real estate litigation in the UAE
Our property and real estate practice advises on a broad range of commercial and residential matters, ranging from construction to tenancy and acquisitions agreements; and advising on community, property and facility management that are common in master developments in the region. The property and real estate practice also encompasses landlord and tenant rental disputes across all of the UAE.
baitulhikma is the leader in real estate financing disputes and has argued the first ever
successful mortgage foreclosure proceedings in the Emirates of Dubai and Ras Al
Khaimah.
baitulhikma's criminal law practice specializes in white collar crimes and overlaps with our banking and finance practice. we’ve had a dedicated team in place for over 10 years, providing advice and assistance on a range of financial crimes.
Our team of criminal law specialists is second to none and offers our clients a cost-effective method of recovery from individuals and companies in the UAE. We do this via all of the tools available to us, from obtaining travel bans to assisting in the issuance of Interpol Red Notices.
Our dedicated team handles over 600 criminal complaints per month on a wide range of
financial crime matters and has to date, recovered over AED3bn in white collar crime.
