The Manpower Committee of the House of Representatives has finished discussing the Labor bill. The new Labor bill submitted by the government to the House of Representatives contains several new provisions that grant additional protections to workers. First, the proposed Labor Law stipulates three conditions for accepting the resignation of an employee in the private […]

Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the emir of Dubai, has released a new Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Law in a move that will affect dispute resolution mechanisms in the financial free zone. The new law’s antecedent, the 2004 DIFC Law, heralded the DIFC’s creation. One aspect of the law that has not changed […]

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the vice president of the United Arab Emirates and the prime minister of Dubai, issued a law establishing the Dubai Digital Authority. He declared that the new authority has the function of digitizing life in Dubai and not just digitizing Dubai government services. The law provided that the authority […]

Even as Saudi Arabia’s neighbor, the UAE is liberalizing its investment regime to attract more foreign direct investment, the Kingdom is determined to protect its local businesses from the encroachment of foreign companies. In August 2020, KSA issued the new Anti-Concealment Law, which increased the penalties on foreigners practicing unauthorized economic activities limited to Saudi […]

UAE’s new Commercial Companies Law entered into force on June 1st. The Companies Law lifts many of the ownership restrictions that previously applied to foreign investors in onshore companies. Before the issuance of the new Companies Law provisions, foreigners were completely prohibited from investing in certain critical sectors. The new law is an amended version […]

On March 29th, 2021, the Board of Directors of the New Urban Communities Authority issued a decision prohibiting the sale of plots of lands to individuals and limiting it only to the real estate developers and government agency projects. This recent decision amends the previous NUCA decision no. 84 issued on August 6th, 2015 concerning […]

In-person proceedings have always been the characteristic feature of litigation in Egypt. In other words, physical court attendance had been mandatory in all litigation proceedings from the start to the end. At the end of 2020, the Ministry of Justice took into account the difficulties faced by Egyptian attorneys regarding attending and following up on […]

The NGO Law no. 149 of 2019 which had been in the works for several years, was issued last year but was missing it’s executive regulations, thus rendering it only conceptual. The Council of Ministers finally issued the executive regulations by virtue of its decree number 104 of 2021 published in the Egyptian Gazette. The […]

The Egyptian Tax Authority reaffirmed that 31 January 2021 is the deadline for filing 2020 salary taxes and penalties for missing this deadline may reach EGP 2 millionز

The global pandemic (COVID-19) is having a severe impact on commercial activities all over the world. This is leading governments to take stringent measures to address the virus’s effects on public health and the global economy. Force majeure is a legal recourse for parties to a contract who are unable to fulfill their obligations due […]