Moore
Law.
Legal counsel, corporate services, and real estate advisory — in Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, and internationally.
Three disciplines, one standard.
The group brings together three distinct lines of work — each under its own licence and its own regulator, and all held to a single standard.
Legal & Tax
Danish tax and legal counsel — representation before the Tax Agency, the Tax Appeals Board, and the National Tax Court, with binding rulings, company and contract law, and cross-border work alongside.
Denmark Visit division →Corporate Services
UAE company formation, UAE residency and Golden Visa, holding structures, corporate consulting, cross-border structuring and second-citizenship advisory — for founders, investors, international families and clients establishing themselves in the Gulf.
UAE · Meydan Freezone Visit division →Real Estate
Acquisition advisory and brokerage across the Dubai property market — independent guidance for buyers, investors, and family offices entering or expanding in the UAE.
UAE · Mainland Visit division →Danish · English · Arabic · German · Norwegian · Swedish · Farsi
Berlingske · DR1 · TV2 · DR P4 Trekanten · Avisen.dk · Fyens.dk
Where clients usually begin.
Many mandates begin in one division and quickly touch another. The pathways below reflect the questions clients most often bring to Moore Law.
Denmark–UAE relocation and tax
Tax-residence planning, Danish exit tax, UAE evidence, company ownership and family relocation for clients moving between Northern Europe and the Gulf.
UAE company formation
Mainland, free zone and holding structures planned around activity, bankability, corporate tax, ownership and long-term use.
UAE residency and Golden Visa
Residency planning for founders, investors, executives, property owners and families, coordinated with tax, banking, company and property decisions.
Dubai property acquisition
Buyer-side legal, commercial and structural review before signing, payment, transfer, handover or long-term holding.
Second citizenship planning
Lawyer-led assessment of second citizenship as family security, mobility and jurisdictional planning, not as a passport purchase.
Holding structures
UAE and cross-border holding structures for founders, families, property investors and international groups.
Tax cases and binding rulings
Evidence-led Danish tax disputes and advance certainty through binding rulings where the client needs the tax position documented before acting.
Fewer matters, properly handled.
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Meaningful matters
We accept work where the depth of our involvement can make a substantive difference. Matters that would not reach that threshold we decline — with respect.
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Long-term relationships
Most of our work is on retainer, with clients we expect to serve for years rather than transactions. We value continuity, accumulated context, and the trust that builds over time.
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Personal handling
Every matter has a partner-level eye on it. The firm bears the founder’s name and operates to that standard.
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Transparent fees
Fees are agreed in advance — fixed retainer for ongoing work, pre-specified rates for one-off engagements. There are no surprises.
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Open dialogue
Our counsel is built to hold up. Where a position is uncertain, we say so.
Recent strategic matters.
A representative selection from the firm’s substantive cross-border work. All names and identifying details are withheld; the structures and outcomes are real.
Sale of a Northern European industrial group to a Gulf strategic acquirer.
Three-phase engagement spanning pre-sale restructuring, transaction process, and post-completion family wealth architecture — substantial cross-border completion at negotiated valuation, with regulatory clearances across five reviewing jurisdictions.
Read the engagement Advisory · Strategic minorityStrategic minority-stake acquisition by a principal Gulf institutional investor.
Fourteen-month confidential engagement covering valuation framework, governance design, exit framework, and foreign-investment clearance — the substantive work sat in the architecture of the long-horizon relationship.
Read the engagementRecent writing.
Substantive analysis on the questions clients most often raise — written for executives and counsel who want the position laid out clearly.
The case for a binding ruling before any major transaction
Why the Danish binding-ruling instrument is one of the most underused tools in commercial tax planning, and how a well-framed request converts an uncertain tax position into a documented certainty.
Residency · Second citizenshipSecond-citizenship programmes in 2026 — an honest assessment
A practical, current view of the principal second-citizenship and long-horizon residency programmes — what they actually deliver, what they cost over a ten-year holding period, and where the regulatory wind is blowing.
UAE real estate · AcquisitionProperty acquisition in Dubai — structuring, documentation, discipline
The structural and documentary discipline that distinguishes durable Dubai property acquisitions from those that produce avoidable difficulty over the duration of the holding.
Dr. Michel Moore.
‘Law is law, and law must be followed. Both by citizens and by authorities. But there must be room for discretion and good judgement — we must not forget the human being at the heart of every matter.’
A lawyer with a commercial background. Founder and managing partner of Moore Law. Based in Dubai.
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