We are Kaden Boriss – Abu Dhabi
Situated in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Kaden Boriss is known for providing excellent legal consultancy services. We are trusted and preferred by our clients owing to our innovative thinking, expert skills, and our commendable solutions. Our specialization is spread across a variety of industry sectors including real estate, construction, and engineering, insurance, corporate, franchising, marketing, and media.
Kaden Boriss is furnished with the best lineup of lawyers that UAE has to offer and is remarkable in all the fields we provide our services in. We are particularly exceptional in dispute resolution, debt collection, settlement agreements, and executable strategies for varied disputes. Our lawyers are equipped with indispensable experience and resources to ensure that our clients receive the highest quality of services.
Our Clientele comprises emerging startups to large multinational corporations and everything in between, forming a diversified portfolio. This is reflective of our inclusive culture and guarantees more enduring outcomes. Kaden Boriss works with affiliated experts and clients to identify and determine the most desirable approach for achieving the Client’s aim.
Services
01. Tax
We offer specialised taxation advice to domestic and foreign businesses, relying on the strength of our global office network to ensure that our advice and assistance is in line with local law and practice.
To minimize tax expenses and maximize tax reliefs, our tax experts work closely with our clients’ corporate, commercial, and finance teams. We advise clients across a wide range of industries including financial services, real estate, investment management, oil & gas, construction, infrastructure, telecommunications, media & entertainment, aerospace and defence, technology, healthcare, consumer goods and energy & utilities. We also provide specialist tax advice on all transactions, and the tax aspects of employee benefits and incentives.
We welcome the opportunity to work with in-house tax teams, offering fresh perspectives and alternate viewpoints to aid in the development of the best possible solution in each case.
02. Private Equity
Kaden Boriss brings our combined experience ranging across industries and our esteemed professionals to the table, assisting clients to identify, understand and resolve the complexities and intricacies that come with private equity transactions. We strongly believe in focusing and following through with the complete investment lifecycle.
03. Debt Recovery
We have professionals experienced in debt recovery and have delivered excellent results for our clients in this area and our systems are specifically designed to facilitate speedy commercial settlements and ensure that the maximum amount is recovered. In instances of non-viability or legal roadblocks, we endeavor to ensure that all options are presented so that an informed decision is made about whether or not to proceed.
04. Feasibility Studies
At Kaden Boriss, we add our legal oversight to our expertise in business strategy, to empower clients to understand costs and benefits involved, as accurately as possible, and to prevent expensive mistakes owing to inadvertent legal or regulatory lapses. We understand that feasibility studies are particularly important during the pandemic and the post-pandemic economy.
Our expertise and experience across connected fields ranging across Banking, Finance, Investment, Logistics and Commercial Practice has empowered us to provide reliable advice on aspects related to investors, market feasibility, technical feasibility and organisational feasibility, thereby driving growth while understanding compliances.
05. Banking & Finance
Our team is dynamic and experienced in technical aspects with expertise in both commercial Banking and Islamic Banking, and we also assist in ensuring that your banking services are compliant with Sharia Law, where the same applies. We offer legal services related to all bank dealings and transactions including financing of corporate transactions, general corporate lending, project finance, vetting of various banking contracts, security documents and consortium lending documents, title scrutiny and hypothecation, guarantees, letters of credit and other credit facilities, debt restructuring, legal audit, etc.
We render services for regulatory work and handling all areas of financial services and assist in incorporation of DFSA regulated companies and listing funds in DIFC.
06. Corporate Structuring
We assists clients to identify and implement an optimal restructuring design, after analyzing their corporate structure so as to streamline and customize the process in their favour. We render advices on business structuring and formation of all types of companies in the UAE, including mainland, Free Zone and Offshore, restructuring and reorganization of the legal and beneficial ownership of UAE companies, management and operational structuring from the UAE legal perspective.
We advise companies, creditors, sponsors, boards of directors, acquirers and other interested parties involved in complex distressed situations.
07. Bankruptcy & Insolvency
We are well versed with the Bankruptcy legislations of the UAE and our primary focus is on obtaining a realistic outcome for our clients. We work closely with financial experts and consultants and are aware of local rules and regulations concerning bankruptcy and insolvency. We also advise on procedures concerning preventive composition from creditors.
The experience and our technical collaborations keep us aware of almost every scenario a case could present, essentially empowering us enough to suggest adequate debt solutions or effective debt management ideas. Furthermore, we assist on relevant documentations and applications.
08. Advise / coordinate arrangement of debt/ equity financing
Our involvement with potential investors, corporate clients, start-ups and so on has bestowed us with the exposure which could assist you to connect and present business models, while we provide reliability to the investors via our sound legal oversight. We bring our expertise in negotiation and related services and sectors, to reach fairer consensus in transactions.
Furthermore, we are equipped to assist clients to identify viable debt equity plans, manage risks and choose calculated risks. We understand that events out of our clients reach, such as a pandemic, could culminate in unforeseen consequences and are equipped to render services ranging across dispute resolution, debt restructuring and business strategy.
09. Commercial
We advise and prepare documentation for commercial transactions involving diverse transactional documents, agreements, contracts and notices, or private equity transactions.
We’ve also advised on oil and gas contracts and we take pride in our superior drafting competency. We’ve involved ourselves in transactional and transnational legal documentation involving a wide range of transactions including drafting business acquisitions and disposals, local/regional joint ventures agreements, shareholders agreements, non-disclosure agreements, disclosure letters, share purchase agreements, preliminary memorandums, privatizations, private placements, private equity investment, buy-outs, import/export documentation, escrow arrangements, capital goods purchase and other commercial agreements.
We provide our corporate clients with services that satisfy their day-to-day legal requirements. We appreciate the need for clients to carry on business in a form most suitable to their trading activities. We therefore advice on company incorporation and legal structure, prepare and review incorporation documents and proceed to register such corporate structures.
10. Construction
We assist clients in negotiation of contracting agreements, supplier agreements, project management and dispute settlement. Our practice in construction law includes assistance in representing consultancy firms, advising an HVAC contractors and sub-contractors on negotiations. We represent clients in legal disputes over commercial and residential development projects concerning construction contracts, contractual payment claims and defects and delays which may occur.
11. Regulatory
We have expertise in the scrutiny, review and examination of any document from a legal perspective and thereby suggesting changes and improvements therein to protect and secure the clients’ interest and to enable execution of legally sound and valid documents, so as to have a sound transactional as well as corporate structure.
Kaden Boriss carries out a comprehensive legal audit of a client and its business through a unique 3-tier process developed by it, so as to help various business entities, organizations and bodies corporate to comply with the various statutory and regulatory obligations applicable to them. Furthermore, Kaden Boriss yearns to provide quality strategic business advisory services anchored in a deep understanding of the Gulf regulation.
12. Competition
We have multiple professionals experienced in commercial law practice, transactions and drafting, empowering our organisation to identify potential application of competition law impediments and interact with antitrust authorities efficiently. Furthermore, we assist companies in competition risk assessment and ensuring compliance.
13. Debt Restructuring
Our insights into banking and finance have empowered us to work closely with corporate clients on issues such as debt restructuring and related dispute resolution. Our talent in Banking, Finances, Contracts and Negotiation bestows us with adequate skills to present and see your proposals through.
We understand the added pressure in this sector owing to the onslaught of the pandemic, and are confident enough to face the unprecedented crisis, thanks to our wealth of experience in negotiations, formulation of workable proposals and thinking out of the box to come up with strategic debt restructuring plans, wherever applicable.
14. Mergers & Acquisitions
We are experienced in strategy evolution to carry out mergers, acquisitions and takeovers based on an assessment of client’s business and the various internal and external factors affecting it. Kaden Boriss advises on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including public takeovers, de-mergers, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, strategic alliances and auction sales.
We assist through different stages of the transactions starting from finding potential expansions, to identifying the value drivers, to due diligence to finalizing transactional agreements and we take pride in our superior drafting skills. We provide efficient due diligence assistance so that our clients get the transaction moved forward in the fairest way possible. We understand the myriad challenges in transactions, particularly cross border transactions and make effective use of our wealth of experience derived from commercial lawyering practice across multiple locations.
15. Employment & Incentives
We advise on immigration and residency rules, Ministry of Labour compliance, staff benefits, and incentive schemes; redundancy and termination management, end of service gratuity settlements; remodeling of service contracts and all other kinds of employment contract documentation. Furthermore, we are well versed with the UAE and DIFC employment matters.
We also coordinate with the dispute resolution team to offer advices based on UAE Labour Law and the DIFC Employment Law and provide services for well-structured documentation and review of Employment Contracts, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Employee Handbook and Policy drafting.
16. Corporate finance/ business valuation
We constantly collaborate with our teams and learn from our experience across the globe, enabling our expertise to seep into virtually every aspect of corporate finance. Our services oversee your transactions ranging across accounting, mergers, acquisitions, finance related dispute resolution and so on, empowering you to deliver services that delight your customers.
We collaborate with our teams working across relevant areas of expertise such as contract negotiation, venture capital, private equity and M&A, to empower you to see the larger picture, bringing our combined experience to the table. Our experience bestows us with access to adequately assist clients on valuation, involving empirical data analysis applied to time tested methods of the sorts of comparable company analysis, projections and precedent transactions.
17. Family
We also advise on all aspects of family law including dissolution of marriage, alimony claims, custody, inheritance, paternity, guardianship etc. We represent clients at court hearings and ensure that their interests are not prejudiced.
18. Financial Crime
We yearn to establish relationship with government bodies and policymakers to transform our practice to an optimal one, and to keep track of the regulatory developments or possible loopholes.
We understand our clients’ constraints in terms of time, awareness of possible technicalities and so on, which might prevent adequate verification of documentation, resulting in the same being an open possibility for financial fraudsters to take advantage of. Hence, we assist in identifying possible red flags by verification of the relevant facts and documentation involved.
19. Intellectual Property
We specialize in the documentation of IPR related transactions including licensing, assignment, and franchising documentation. We also work as Intellectual Property agents and specialize in comprehensive legal contractual documentation pertaining to motion pictures, television, book publishing, internet media, theatre, music, sports & entertainment industry. We have expertise in handling complex trademark, patent, copyrights, trade secrets, and all areas of Intellectual Property matters in the UAE, including registration and infringement matters.
Few of our recent projects include registration of a trademark of a five-star luxury hotel, facilitating a patent licensing transaction, including drafting of comprehensive agreements, advising a local technology start-up on protection of their proprietary data, including registering their intellectual property and advising a foreign crypto currency trader on local rules and regulations.
We strongly believe that taking Intellectual Property seriously would be noticed by other market players in your industry, thereby providing a continuum to the protection of your intellectual property from potential infringers. We assist in registration or in efficiently defending your Intellectual Property. We also provide consultation services ranging across IP/ Search Analysis, Technology Transfer, License Management and so on.
20. Private Client Services
21. Due Diligence
Our experience has introduced us to potential red flags and has brought more structure to our due diligence process, empowering us to ensure that your transactions do not leave you with unexpected legal disputes or liabilities. We have expertise in carrying out, for the benefit of prospective investors, comprehensive pre-acquisition due diligence, documentation and approvals.
Kaden Boriss has expertise in carrying out, for the benefit of prospective investors, comprehensive pre-acquisition due diligence, documentation and approvals. It also provides liaising services for establishment of businesses along with pre-acquisition support to prospective investors by undertaking detailed documentation and representing them in all aspects of their business transactions with domestic and international governmental entities.
22. Venture Capital & Startup
Our investment and commercial advisory has certainly brought us in touch with potential investors and our experience in corporate, commercial, intellectual property, transactional and many other related services and sectors, would ensure that our services are holistic and fact-based. We provide very specific and specialized assistance to start-ups in the UAE. Such services include company incorporation and advising the suitable entity and drafting and preparing the necessary documents, liaising with the relevant government authorities and providing overall counsel and advice.
We understand the constraints of scarce resource allocation and we do our best to ensure that we do justice to the same. UAE has more than 20 free zones and three offshore jurisdictions, each of which has its own licensing body. We are experienced in incorporating all types of companies in the mainland Dubai, Sharjah, Free Zones and Offshore Jurisdictions. Hence, we are well-versed in assistance on a range of legal issues such as incorporation, intellectual property, agreements involved, employment, corporate governance and so on.
23. Advice on Business and Financial Strategy
Our deep understanding of the legal and regulatory compliances empowers us to provide you with a legal oversight, along with our business strategy advice, assisting you to run your business in the best possible way. Our clients range across start-ups and new business owners to established corporate clients, positioning us to provide sophisticated yet accessible advice, powered by our vision for innovation.
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