Selected engagements.
Anonymised studies of representative engagements across the firm's three divisions — illustrating the type of work the firm takes on, the approach applied, and the outcomes pursued. Client identities, jurisdictions, and figures are altered or generalised to preserve confidentiality.
Substantial matters.
Representative engagements where the firm has acted as principal strategic and structural counsel — typically over multi-year horizons, across multiple jurisdictions, in coordination with locally-licensed specialist counsel. These are the engagements where the substantive value sits in the architecture and negotiation rather than in transactional volume.
Sale of a Northern European industrial group to a major Gulf strategic acquirer.
Three-phase coordinated engagement spanning pre-sale restructuring, the transaction process, and post-completion family wealth architecture — culminating in a substantial cross-border completion at the negotiated valuation, with regulatory clearances obtained across five reviewing jurisdictions.
Read the engagement Joint venture · Multi-jurisdictionalFormation of a Gulf–European technology joint venture.
Multi-jurisdictional joint-venture structuring for a European technology business and a principal Gulf strategic investor — operating across the GCC under a single integrated platform, with negotiated governance and exit framework supporting a long-horizon strategic relationship.
Read the engagement Development · UAEMaster-planned UAE mixed-use development for a family-office investor.
End-to-end structural and advisory engagement on a substantial Dubai mixed-use development — from land acquisition through to project launch and ongoing portfolio management, integrating real estate, corporate, and family-office dimensions into a single integrated engagement.
Read the engagement Cross-jurisdictional · Family officeCross-border family-office restructuring across five jurisdictions.
Complete reorganisation of an international family's holding chain — coordinated across Denmark, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, and Singapore — over an eighteen-month structural engagement, designed to withstand the regulatory environment of the next decade.
Read the engagement Advisory & negotiation · Strategic minorityStrategic minority-stake acquisition by a principal Gulf institutional investor.
Negotiated acquisition of a significant minority interest in a major European operating business by a principal Gulf institutional investor — fourteen-month confidential engagement covering the valuation framework, governance design, exit framework, and the foreign-investment clearance required in the European business's home jurisdiction. The substantive work sat in the architecture of the long-horizon strategic relationship; the headline economics were the visible part.
Read the engagementAcross the three divisions.
Further representative engagements across Legal & Tax, Corporate Services, and Real Estate — the day-to-day work that runs alongside the larger strategic engagements above.
Contested tax residency for a relocating executive
A senior executive's relocation from Denmark to the UAE produced a contested assessment from the Danish Tax Agency. Through documentary reconstruction and treaty-based argument, the matter was concluded substantially in the client's favour.
Legal & Tax · Binding rulingBinding ruling secured on a cross-border share restructuring
A founder planning a pre-sale group restructuring across Danish and UAE entities secured advance certainty from the Danish Tax Agency, allowing the transaction to complete on a documented basis.
Corporate Services · UAE setupUAE setup with banking for a Northern European founder
End-to-end UAE entity formation, banking arrangement, and Golden Visa coordination for a Scandinavian founder relocating to Dubai — with the underlying European structure integrated rather than replaced.
Corporate Services · ResidencyGolden Visa for a senior executive and family
Golden Visa application for a senior executive relocating to the UAE, with coordinated dependent sponsorship for spouse and three children, integrated with the underlying employment and tax position.
Corporate Services · CitizenshipSecond citizenship: programme selection and execution
Strategic assessment and execution of a second-citizenship application for a family-office principal building a long-horizon portfolio of jurisdictional options, with due-diligence preparation at the centre of the engagement.
Corporate Services · Group expansionEuropean group expansion into the UAE
Group-level UAE entry for an established European corporate group, including vehicle selection, entity formation, substance build, and integration with the existing European structure and treaty positioning.
Real Estate · Off-planOff-plan acquisition with diligence-driven amendments
High-value off-plan apartment acquisition for an international buyer, with substantive pre-signing diligence and SPA amendments that materially improved the buyer's position before commitment.
Real Estate · PortfolioFamily office portfolio entry into Dubai
Phased Dubai property portfolio establishment for a European family office, including holding-structure design, segment strategy, and the sequencing of acquisitions over an eighteen-month timeline.
Real Estate · CommercialCommercial brokerage with structural complexity
Acquisition of a substantial Dubai commercial property for an international group's regional headquarters, including the resolution of master-developer and licensing questions that the underlying transaction surfaced.
Cross-discipline · IntegratedUAE entity, residency, and property in one engagement
Coordinated cross-divisional engagement for a founder relocating from Northern Europe — combining departure-side tax positioning, UAE entity formation, residency, and property acquisition into a single integrated workstream.