Corporate
Structuring & Restructuring
MAK Partners & Legal Consultants offers strategic corporate structuring and restructuring services in the UAE, ensuring businesses build and reorganise their corporate frameworks in full compliance with UAE laws and regulations. The firm advises on jurisdiction selection, ownership and governance, regulatory approvals, capital structuring, and cross-border issues, while providing end-to-end support for restructuring driven by growth, consolidation, regulatory changes, or ownership transitions. With strong expertise in holding companies, group structures, and compliance requirements such as UBO and ESR, MAK Partners focuses on reducing legal and regulatory risk, improving investor confidence, and enabling long-term scalability through partner-led, UAE-specific, and commercially practical legal solutions.
Mergers & Acquisitions
MAK Partners & Legal Consultants offers comprehensive, partner-led legal advisory for mergers, acquisitions, disposals, and corporate takeovers in the UAE and internationally, supporting clients through complex, high-value transactions with a focus on legal precision, regulatory compliance, and commercial strategy. The firm advises across the full M&A lifecycle—from early-stage deal structuring and regulatory feasibility analysis to rigorous legal due diligence, drafting and negotiation of transaction documentation, and post-completion integration—ensuring risks are identified, allocated, and mitigated effectively. With deep expertise in UAE corporate law, MAK Partners aligns legal execution with commercial objectives, safeguards against undisclosed liabilities and regulatory exposure, and acts as a strategic partner in delivering sustainable long-term value from corporate transactions.
Joint Ventures
MAK Partners & Legal Consultants provides specialised, partner-led legal advisory for joint ventures in the UAE, assisting local and international businesses in structuring, negotiating, and managing JVs that are legally enforceable, commercially balanced, and resilient to dispute. The firm advises on strategic JV structuring, regulatory and licensing compliance, ownership and control allocation, governance design, funding mechanisms, and exit planning, while drafting robust joint venture and shareholders’ agreements that mitigate deadlock, minority oppression, and regulatory risk. With deep expertise in UAE corporate and free zone regulations, MAK Partners focuses on dispute prevention, long-term stability, and value protection, ensuring joint ventures operate effectively throughout their lifecycle and exit cleanly when required.
Legal Drafting & Vetting
MAK Partners & Legal Consultants’ Legal Drafting & Vetting Practice focuses on preventing disputes through precise, strategically drafted contracts tailored to UAE law and enforcement realities, recognising that poorly drafted or generic agreements often lead to legal, financial, and operational risk. The firm provides bespoke drafting across corporate, commercial, and risk-protection documentation—including shareholders’ and JV agreements, service and distribution contracts, NDAs, and indemnity frameworks—ensuring clarity, commercial balance, and enforceability. Their contract vetting service goes beyond basic review to identify hidden liabilities, ambiguous clauses, termination risks, and regulatory non-compliance, providing clear legal opinions that support informed decision-making. By aligning drafting and vetting with UAE corporate, civil, labour, and sector-specific laws and focusing on dispute-prevention mechanisms, MAK Partners helps clients reduce enforcement failures and avoid costly litigation.
Legal Advisory
MAK Partners & Legal Consultants’ Corporate Legal Advisory Practice offers ongoing, strategic legal support to businesses operating in the UAE, acting as long-term advisors to corporates, shareholders, boards, and senior management. Recognising the UAE’s dynamic regulatory environment, the firm provides proactive legal guidance across corporate governance, shareholder rights, regulatory compliance, risk management, and strategic decision-making, helping clients anticipate and mitigate legal risks before they escalate. Their services include continuous compliance and governance support (including UBO and ESR), board and shareholder advisory to prevent deadlock and protect minority rights, transaction and risk advisory for investments and market entry, and flexible corporate retainer or external general counsel support. By embedding legal oversight into business operations, MAK Partners helps clients maintain regulatory compliance, reduce dispute risk, and make informed, defensible strategic decisions.
