About

We are engaged when clients require atypical solutions or when the usual approach has not worked.

Consulting Practice Coverage

Global. Historically our focus has been the UK, UAE, Singapore, and India (outbound).

Legal Practice Coverage

We advise on ADGM, DIFC, and mainland UAE law, and on Singapore, Indian, and Australian law, in and from the UAE.

We do not at present have a registered presence in the ADGM or DIFC.

What we do

General Consulting

• DeFi, digital assets, and regulated financial services
  • Building product stacks blending all three
  • Regulatory engagements for new licences and licence modifications
  • Negotiation support with partners and providers
• Stablecoins and RWAs
  • Regulated stablecoin design and implementation
  • RWA tokenisation including continuous tokenisation programs

Legal and Regulatory

• Regulated Banking & Finance; Stablecoins; and DeFi
  • Product, legal, and regulatory for projects
  • Regulatory alignment and playbook building
• TMT Projects & Infrastructure
  • Sponsor, financier, and vendor mandates for technology, power, and telecom infrastructure
  • Data centres and adjacent power infrastructure
  • Submarine cables
  • Fibre-to-the-home rollouts
• Debt (private credit + bank) restructuring and turnarounds
  • Going concerns and insolvent workouts
  • Company constitution and debt covenant changes to streamline debt restructuring
  • Net-benefit jurisdictional arbitrage
  • Cap structure control solutions
  • Distressed and special situations M&A
• Mediation
  • Representation in mediations aimed at obtaining enforceable mediated settlements
• Arbitration
  • Arbitration agreements to enable error of law appeals
  • Mediation amidst arbitrations for enforceable settlement awards
• Family office advisory
  • ADGM and DIFC foundations and associated cross-jurisdictional moat structures
  • Tax and control-advantaged HoldCo/OpCo structures
  • Port-co shareholder and board mandates

Commercial Model