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Niche Publishers is a dynamic firm that was established in 2011 in the UAE. The company is currently committed to producing strategic business titles: one for the Legal arena and two for the Insurance sector, all distributed within the Middle East. Niche Publishers is attuned to setting high standards in the market. The firm is well known in media, insurance and legal sectors. Niche Publishers has also established itself with high profile events such as insurance conferences and industry awards.
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Flosmart Solutions is the only firm in the Middle East that provides all the services that a law firm may need from the inception right to the conclusion of a legal matter, in essence forming the only “one-stop shop” for legal support services. Our focus is on providing a complete solution for law firms, from document scanning, eDiscovery, case preparation, electronic bundle preparation, legal bundle printing, arbitration hearing services including transcription, EPE & virtual hearing management. Based in Dubai’s Business Bay District, we have been able to cater to requirements from all over the Middle East and we now have a presence in London to service growing demand in the UK and Europe.
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MAS Advocates is a prominent local law firm based in the UAE. The firm offers a unique selection of legal services with exclusive rights and associations with Mohamed Alserkal Advocates & Legal Consultants LLC. The firm’s strategic clients continue to rely on high-caliber legal counsel and qualified lawyers who are trained and educated in multiple jurisdictions. With their exceptional expertise evident in every case they handle, clients are assured of receiving consistent and reliable legal services of the utmost finest quality. The firm continues to work on cases across key practice areas such as litigation and disputes, corporate commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, construction and real estate, capital markets, intellectual property, and private wealth.
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LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis encompasses authoritative legal publications and services dating back to the 19th century including: the All England Law Reports and Halsbury’s Laws in the United Kingdom, the JurisClasseur encyclopedia in France, and lexis.com, Shephard’s and the Matthew Bender portfolios in the US. Through the integration of information and technology, LexisNexis uniquely unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies and premium information sources. We provide customers across the globe with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news and business sources. What makes us different from the others is our deep understanding of the history and differences in the legal market in the Middle East. Our challenge is to provide expertise in civil and common law, relevant understanding of the principles of Islamic law, and produce a truly unique offering which bridges the gap between these three legal traditions. We operate from our UAE office in Dubai Media City, with support from our offices in London and Paris. Through our strategic partnership with Sader Legal Publishing we also have dedicated translation and research teams in Beirut and Amman.
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Grant Thornton
We are a global network with over 68,000 professionals in member firms in over 145 countries, with one common goal — to help you realise your ambitions in any environment and enable sustainable growth for your business. Grant Thornton UAE was founded in 1966 and is one of UAE's leading assurance, advisory and tax firms dedicated to serving the needs of privately-held businesses, public interest entities and family-owned businesses. With offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah and considerable experience across many fields, Grant Thornton’s team of experts take a hands-on and practical approach to provide you with the advice and support required to suit your evolving requirements in a fast-changing business landscape.
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Primecase
Primecase is known in the market for its innovated, practical and revolutionized provided solutions to clients who arrive and reach to Primecase from other prominent law firms in the UAE holding complex and complicated disputes that requires niche and distinguished level of litigation input and expertise to which others firms were not in a position to resolve and advise said clients on best ligation strategies to be adopted so as achieve the clients’ targets that they opt and mitigate risks, and most of said court cases arrives to Primecase at the stage of appeal before the court of appeal or court of cassation. Primecase advises on all aspects of Bankruptcy, Liquidation, and Insolvency, and provides legal support in filing for bankruptcy and to resort to out-of-court settlement agreements with creditors; and mechanisms to obtain new financing with certain rules and conditions. Our department has become famous for its niche expertise in UAE Bankruptcy and Insolvency based on the distinguished handled court case. Primecase advises on all aspects of banking & finance litigation and our experience includes understating secured and unsecured asset finance; corporate, commercial and trade finance litigation disputes. We are experienced in a wide variety of commercial litigation, particularly in specialised sectors such as shareholders’ disputes, commercial agencies, healthcare, retail and luxury brands, pharmaceuticals, intellectual property disputes and education. We also advise on commercial and civil matters under UAE law as well as on the enforceability of Arbitration awards in the UAE Courts. Primecase counsels on all aspects of construction litigation related to project inception to completion, and assists in procurement, contractual documentation. We have also advised master developers, sub- developers, investment funds and Islamic banks on large-scale, mixed-use integrated tourism, commercial hotel, retail and residential developments. We advise on all aspects of UAE labour law and provide legal support in the structuring, management, and organisation of your workforce. We also work on employment disputes before the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, UAE courts and the DIFC. Our experienced lawyers have always taken the lead in adopting the most appropriate measures to protect our clients’ business interests utilizing all available means. Being an expert in the field of litigation in conflict resolution in the UAE, Primecase offers a comprehensive range of services that oversee an excellent representation of clients’ interests right from the beginning to the conclusion. We have everything covered by creating a legal strategy to achieve the desired outcome. We are also adept at demonstrating flexibility that adjusts to the demands of the case with time.