Dispute
Resolution.
Direct access to senior counsel for a confidential preliminary view on your dispute or potential claim. At no cost. With no obligation to proceed.
About this service
A preliminary view, without engagement
Dispute Resolution at Emirates Legal is a service through which a prospective client can submit a brief description of a dispute or potential claim and, where we are free to assist, receive a confidential preliminary view from senior counsel.
Submitting a query does not, in itself, create a lawyer–client relationship. Before any preliminary view is provided, we will conduct an internal conflict check. The view that follows is general in nature, given on the information available, and intended to help you decide whether and how to take a matter forward — not as a substitute for the considered advice we would provide following formal engagement.
Emirates Legal FZE is registered to practise before the DIFC, ADGM and AIFC Courts, and regularly advises on matters governed by English law and the laws of the United Arab Emirates. For matters before the onshore Arabic-language courts, we work in collaboration with locally licensed advocates.
Where we can help
The matters you can bring to us
Recovery of money
Unpaid invoices, fees, loans, advances and dishonoured cheques.
Breach of contract
Supply, service, consultancy, agency and distribution agreements.
Shareholder & partner disputes
Deadlock, exclusion, unfair prejudice and business-exit disputes.
Investment & financial mis-selling
Mis-sold structured products, leverage, suitability and onboarding failures.
Employment matters
End-of-service, termination and senior-executive disputes.
Property & real estate
Off-plan handover, lease, escrow and brokerage-commission disputes.
Cross-border matters
UAE–India, Central Asia and Europe — disputes spanning more than one jurisdiction.
Arbitration
DIAC, ICC, LCIA, AIFC and AAA — commencing, defending or enforcing.
Enforcement of judgments & awards
Conduit recognition, freezing orders, and execution abroad, including DIFC judgments enforced in India.
The track record
The Record, as the Courts Recorded It
Chenshan Liu v Dubai Waterfront (2016)
DIAC award recognised and enforced through the DIFC; the case that precipitated the Joint Judicial Tribunal.
Credit Suisse v Goel & Others (2024)
DIFC jurisdiction denied; US$93m judgment and worldwide freezing order set aside; assets released.
The AED 108 million recovery
Judgment against a prominent investment bank in the Dubai Courts, recovered in full in enforcement.
Forbes v Kidd (2025)
GBP 4.6 million won at a seven-day DIFC trial, instructing two King's Counsel.
Abdelsalam v Expresso Telecom (2021)
The litigation that settled the transitional operation of the DIFC Employment Law.
Innovative Production Group (2025)
Among the first rulings under Article 14(B) of the new DIFC Courts Law.
The full judgments are reproduced in the firm's Compendium of Judgments, available to clients on request.
The Process
How it works
Submit your query
Complete the short, confidential intake form on this page — a few details about you, the counterparty and the matter.
We screen and review
We run a conflict check within 24 hours, schedule a short call with our team. Thereafter, we assign the matter to a senior member of the firm for detailed review.
You receive a preliminary view
Subsequently, within three working days — a senior member gives you a candid view on options, forum and next steps.
You decide whether to engage
Take the matter forward only if you wish to. A lawyer–client relationship arises only on signature of an engagement letter.
We will give you a candid view. If a matter is best resolved by negotiation rather than litigation, we will tell you so — and what that path will involve.