Hussain Lootah & Associates

Company Formation Law Firm in Dubai, UAE

The right company structure creates the backbone for sustainable business success. Whether onshore, offshore, or in one of the many UAE free zones, our team of legal practitioners expertly guides clients in selecting the ideal company structure and advise them on compliance.

Our legal advice on company formation starts with understanding our clients’ objectives leading to tracing a viable and compliant route to create a structure that fulfils them. Our in-depth knowledge of local regulations and the continuously changing foreign investment laws, backed by strong relationships with the authorities and government bodies, allow us to devise strategic optimal structures for our clients.

We assist our clients in establishing various types of entities across mainland and free zone jurisdictions: Limited Liability Company (LLC), branch or representative office of a foreign company, foreign investment companies, commercial agency or distributor, professional service, free zone company and offshore company.
This includes defining roles and responsibilities through Memorandum and Articles of Association, shareholder agreements and board and shareholders resolutions.

We also advise clients on restructuring of their existing entities for better operational efficiency or regulatory compliance. We suggest appropriate structures in response to government tenders and help clearly define roles in matters of shareholder responsibility.

Debt Recovery and Collection Lawyer in Dubai, UAE

While a strong credit policy and collection process may serve your company for the majority of your outstanding invoices, there will come a time when getting paid from a client or customer proves difficult, and you risk being left with bad debt on your books, requiring you to resort to debt recovery lawyers.

Unpaid invoices, bad debt, and delinquent account receivables are parts of doing business. However, when you exhaust all the normal methods, sending multiple overdue notices, demand letters, set up meetings or call your clients, and have not been successful in collecting your debt, it might be time and the best solution is to hire a debt recovery lawyer.

HL&A focuses on the areas of commercial debt recovery and the enforcement of creditors’ rights. We are resourceful, experienced, and persistent. We provide our debt collection in UAE services for a wide spectrum of clients, including large local and multinational commercial and industrial organizations.

At HL&A, our team of highly qualified legal consultants and local advocates take varied approaches to your debt collection UAE matters depending upon the circumstances. We analyze each case and make a decision on the most effective debt collection procedures to use based upon the facts, conditions, and requirements of each case.

For decades we helped our corporate clients address their debt recovery matters and pursued their rights in the UAE courts to obtain satisfactory results for their businesses. As a law firm, we have more leverage to collect your debts which make us your ultimate debt collection lawyers.

For any of your debt collection UAE requirements, kindly reach out to us via the contact us form, email or phone and our specialized team of debt recovery lawyers will be glad to assist you.

OUR DEBT RECOVERY AND COLLECTION LEGAL SERVICES IN THE UAE

• Commercial debt collection in UAE
• Amicable resolution & debt settlements
• Judicial proceedings in debt recovery cases before UAE courts
• Debt recovery services for unpaid loans, services, invoices, and salaries.
• Enforcement of creditors’ rights in UAE and foreign countries
• Unpaid cheques or bounced cheques

Family & Divorce Lawyer in Dubai, UAE

At HL&A, our family lawyers in Dubai deliver legal guidance for all areas of family life. We help create the structures to safeguard family relations, and deal with disputes as they arise. From issues of separation and divorce, child custody, domestic violence and inheritance our team of experienced family and divorce lawyers in Dubai extend legal advice that covers sensitive situations – with confidentiality, impartiality and tact guaranteed.

We help expatriates codify family relationships, rights and wills in a manner compliant with Shariah. We help translate family agreements and arrangements into documentation that comply with the local laws and can be easily enforced within the UAE court system. From wills and inheritance to custody and guardianship, we offer families peace of mind when dealing with contingencies.

Our family lawyers speak multiple languages and our legal support ranges from guidance and advice to dispute resolution, court representation, compensation and ongoing legal support as required, where we seek the best outcome for the family unit. Our divorce lawyers are not just well versed in law; they also understand the sensitive nature of family disputes, and help family members reach equitable settlements with minimal disruption if possible.

For any of your family law requirements, kindly reach out to us via the contact us form, email or phone and our family lawyers in Dubai will be glad to assist you.

OUR FAMILY AND DIVORCE LEGAL SERVICES IN THE UAE

• Legal consultation
• Marital settlements
• Separation agreements
• Pre-Nuptial Agreements
• Post-Nuptial Agreements
• Divorce
• Legal documentation
• Alimony or maintenance claims
• Child custody
• Domestic abuse and violence
• Guardianship
• Inheritance
• Attestation of documents

Intellectual Property Law Firm in Dubai, UAE

Contemporary business success relies heavily on virtual assets and intellectual property. HL&A’s Intellectual Property lawyers advise clients on the full range of contentious and non-contentious IP related matters. We support clients with patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, domain names, labels and other content, and help effectively prepare, process and register intellectual property, protect it against violations, derive commercial benefits from it, and seek compensation for infringement if required.

We create equitable agreements for Intellectual Property and content use, oversee and enforce them as required.

Our IP practice collaborates with our firm’s baking and finance, corporate, contracts teams to help clients monetise their intellectual property – such as through licensing and distribution arrangements, franchising, joint ventures and others.

When it comes to enforcement, our IP lawyers work closely with our dispute resolution team should a potential infringement or dispute arise. We have extensive experience in enforcing rights against counterfeiters, forgers, and copiers as well as executing proceedings with the relevant government bodies/departments and the UAE courts.

Labour Lawyer in Dubai, UAE

A market as dynamic, diverse, and multicultural as the UAE sees a global confluence of expectations, norms, and ethics when it comes to employment. At HL&A, we make it our mission to provide dedicated labour law support for both employers and employees and create equitable terms of employment in a manner compatible with the UAE labour law and relevant regulations.

Our devoted team of corporate lawyers with over two decades of experience in the UAE labour law, support our clients in both public and private sectors, whether on the UAE mainland or within free zones, with all aspects of the employment law.
Whilst working on labour policies and procedures, drafting and vetting labour contracts and agreements, our role as experienced labour lawyers in Dubai is to bring stakeholders to a similar point of reference. This process starts at the outset of the recruitment process, where our legal consultants and local advocate help ensure that the selection and hiring process is in line within the UAE law, as well as the subsequent labour contracts and relevant documents generated.

We guide our clients navigate through the complex and fast changing employment environment in the UAE and advise on all areas of the employer-employee relationship, including HR policy, procedure documentation and employee handbooks, disciplinary concerns, grievance and dismissal procedures, with the expertise of our employment lawyers in Dubai.

Our employment lawyers in Dubai also assist our clients and their human resources departments with redundancy agreements, and the changing terms and conditions or employment transfers that might eventuate from mergers, acquisitions, divestment, or business reorganization. Other services include, employment policies, confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation, intellectual property protection and directors/managers’ duties and liabilities.

Our bilingual advocates support and represent our corporate clients in all post-termination disputes and litigation procedures and assist with mediation at all labour committees.

For any of your employment and labour law requirements, kindly reach out to us via the contact us form, email or phone and our team of labour lawyers in Dubai will be glad to assist you.

OUR EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR LEGAL SERVICES IN THE UAE

• Human resources policies
• Labor force restructuring
• Secondments
• Employment contracts
• Employee transfers
• Redundancy agreements
• Settlement agreements
• Disciplinary and dismissal procedures
• Due Diligence
• Compliance with government authorities
• Confidentiality agreements
• Non-competition and non-solicitation agreements
• Dispute resolution – Litigation (All UAE courts)

Litigation Lawyer in Dubai, UAE

With over two decades of experience delivering equitable outcomes, as a specialized litigation law firm in Dubai, our team is exceptionally qualified, with years of expertise in arguing cases in Arabic within the UAE court system. Our UAE national advocates have the right of audience before all local courts, which means they plead client cases directly in front of judges without relying on an intermediary.

We are set apart by our sound understanding of complexity of the local legal system, and our strong relationship with the relevant authorities – keeping us abreast of changes to local law. Client service standards are a crucial differentiator, with our teams offering clients regular updates and continual guidance.

Our litigation services range from real estate, construction, commercial, employment and debt recovery litigation to media, banking and finance, inheritance and insurance litigation. We specialise in pleading civil, criminal and commercial cases in local courts, and are also experts at litigating cases in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) courts.

Our team, consisting of five litigation lawyers in Dubai, holds vast experience in many industrial sectors, and a solid record of accomplishment of successful resolution of high-value disputes.

Our specialist teams research and deliver cogent arguments to ensure that our clients’ interests are well-represented.

For any of your local litigation cases, kindly reach out to us via the contact us form, email or phone and our litigation lawyers in Dubai will be glad to assist you.

OUR LITIGATION SERVICES IN THE UAE INCLUDE

• Corporate and commercial disputes
• Real estate disputes
• Tenancy disputes
• Construction and engineering claims
• Debt recovery
• Employment disputes
• Banking and finance
• White collar and financial crime
• Family and inheritance
• Insurance
• Insolvency
• Professional negligence
• Intellectual property

Real Estate Lawyer in Dubai, UAE

With a particularly dynamic and constantly evolving real estate sector powering the UAE’s growth, HL&A has assembled a multilingual experienced team of property lawyers in Dubai to assist clients with all commercial and residential real estate related laws and regulations. We regularly advise and represent stakeholders across the entire real estate sector – including investors, developers, contractors, landlords, owners’ associations, tenants, regulators, government bodies, banks and financial institutions.

Our close relationships with the governing authorities and our extensive involvement in the real estate sector and decades of experience in dispute resolution allow us to deliver a world-class integrated repository of expertise to our clients.

Also, our expert real estate lawyers in Dubai work in tandem with other areas of expertise within HL&A to safeguard all clients’ needs and interests with the provision of a full range of services ranging from licensing and registration to conducting transactions, financing, sale and purchase agreements, contractor relations, development structuring, zoning and strata law compliance, escrow advice, commercial, retail and industrial leasing, jointly owned property structures, compliance with RERA regulations, property management agreements, real estate litigation and other dispute resolution methods.

HL&A’s real estate practice has been regarded as one of the leaders in the market especially when it comes to dispute resolution via arbitration or real estate litigation. Our team of real estate lawyers in Dubai advised all stakeholders in the real estate sector over the past couple of decades and our advocates represented clients in front of all the UAE courts to resolve disputes between investors, developers and contractors, residential and commercial tenancy disputes, and others.

For any of your real estate legal requirements, kindly reach out to us via the contact us form, email or phone and our specialized team of property lawyers in Dubai will be glad to assist you.

OUR REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY LEGAL SERVICES IN THE UAE

• Drafting and vetting contracts
• Sale and purchase agreements
• Property and hotel management agreements
• Residential, commercial, and industrial leasing
• Commercial real estate transactions
• Real estate dispute resolution
• off-plan property advice and disputes
• Landlord-tenant disputes
• Licensing, registration, financing
• Development and structuring
• Strata law compliance
• Escrow advice
• Joint property structure
• Real estate litigation

Wills & Guardianship Lawyer in Dubai, UAE

Inheritance, estate planning, wills, guardianship, and the accurate execution thereof, play a crucial role in family stability and continuity. In a multicultural destination such as the UAE, home to expatriates from all over the world, our expert team can advise clients on ways to ensure the complex legal process of making a will or dealing with any financial affairs of a deceased loved one is seamless and sensitive family matters are finalized efficiently.

Our Wills and Guardianship practice offers clients peace of mind by assisting in all aspects of estate planning, inheritance and guardianship. We prepare and document wills, trusts and guardianship agreements that can be effectively enforced within the UAE legal system – ensuring that families who have suffered bereavement are not additionally burdened by time-consuming costly, and legally complex court procedures.

We help Non-Muslim expats understand that wills, trusts, guardianship agreements, and other family contracts need to comply with in the UAE law for effective execution. Absence of such compliant agreements can cause serious complications, with cases reverting by default to Shariah inheritance and guardianship rules.

We also specialise in creating wills and guardianship agreements under the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Wills and Probate Registry.