Corporate & cross-border structuring.

Real at every layer, or it fails at the one no one checked.

The question it answers

Stone colonnade casting shadows, for the corporate structuring practice

You have a structure, and someone has told you it works.

The question is whether it holds at every end at once, the UAE, the country at the other side, and the treaty between them, or whether it passes where you are looking and fails at the gate you are not.

These structures rarely fail at formation. They fail later, at the layer no one checked.

How Hoot approaches it

Regulators & regimesRAK ICC, ADGM, DIFC, the UAE corporate-tax and economic-substance regime, and the law of the other jurisdiction with the treaty between them.

The partners who work hereGhassan Makki · Nicholas Kairis · Fahad Al Howdari

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