Small and medium-sized enterprises are the engine room of modern economies. They innovate rapidly, scale with ambition and operate with lean, high-performing teams. Yet as they grow, one structural gap consistently emerges: access to steady, senior-level legal guidance. For many founders and project-driven companies, the choice appears binary, engage external lawyers reactively when issues arise,...Read More
Recent hostilities affecting the Gulf region have again exposed how vulnerable construction projects can be to disruption. Delays to materials, rising logistics costs, labour pressures, and uncertainty around supply chains are placing additional strain on developers and contractors already operating in a competitive market. Against this backdrop, standard form contracts, such as the FIDIC Red...Read More
Introduction For Owners and Contractors in the UAE, the unamended FIDIC Red Book (1999/2017) is a strong starting point, but it is not a “plug-and-play” solution. The UAE’s legal and commercial landscape introduces risks that FIDIC, by design, leaves to project-specific negotiation. Going to market on an unamended form often pushes those negotiations into the...Read More
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