Practice

Corporate Conflicts

Control and balance

Advising founders, shareholders, investors and senior management in high-stakes corporate conflicts, including matters with civil and criminal overlap.

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Overview

Strategic advice for high-stakes UAE matters.

Not every corporate disagreement is a corporate law issue. Many conflicts are really about control, access, authority, money flows, documents and leverage. We advise on the full conflict picture — legal, evidentiary and strategic.

Dr. Mohamed AlMur
Dr. Mohamed Abdalla Almur
Managing Partner
Why this matters in the UAE

Corporate conflicts in the UAE often develop across several pressure points at once: company records, operational control, banking access, regulator-facing communications, court action and criminal complaints. That requires integrated handling, not siloed legal advice.

What we advise on
1Shareholder and partner deadlocks
2Management misconduct and misuse of authority allegations
3Conflicts over control, governance and access to corporate information
4Asset diversion and business opportunity disputes
5Corporate document, signature and authorization conflicts
6Civil disputes with potential criminal exposure
7Pre-escalation strategy and internal conflict structuring
8Negotiation positioning in founder and investor conflicts
Typical matters
1Partners or shareholders cannot reach an agreement, paralysing the business operations.
2A company participant is suspected of asset siphoning, using shell structures, or seizing control.
3The conflict is complicated by criminal law risks: threats of police complaints or account blocks.
4Pre-litigation settlement and a formal Settlement Agreement on favourable terms are required.
Our approach

Calm strategy. Precise execution.

Egor Chernyshev
Egor Chernyshev
Partner
1Analyze control, leverage and evidentiary risk before choosing the litigation path
2Treat governance, communications and external steps as part of the same conflict strategy
3Anticipate where the opposing side may use criminal, regulatory or banking pressure
4Align legal technique with commercial reality and maintain structural coherence of the response
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Connected areas of expertise

High-stakes matters rarely sit inside a single legal box. The strongest strategy usually comes from seeing the whole conflict map.

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