Abdullah Al Zarooni Advocates and Legal Consultants
A distinguished team of advocates and legal consultants providing legal advice across all branches of law.
The firm has a unique advantage: deep expertise in local laws combined with a clear understanding of clients’ needs and requirements.
The firm represents its valued clients in advocacy and defense, and appears on their behalf before the courts.
The firm works with many leading companies to provide legal consultations and follow up their cases, and also offers private notary services.
Abdullah Al Zarooni Advocates and Legal Consultants is made up of lawyers and consultants across various judicial specialties. It was founded by a UAE national. The firm uniquely combines expertise in local laws with an understanding of client requirements, overcoming cultural and language barriers through legal diversity and the strong international backgrounds of its lawyers.
In the course of our legal work, we strive to deliver precision and effective protection to meet our clients’ individual requirements, while maintaining the quality and standards on which our reputation was built.
Real Estate Lawyer in Dubai
We are a law firm specializing in real estate matters for commercial companies, institutions, and individuals. Our distinguished team of lawyers and legal consultants has the experience to handle all real estate transactions—from reviewing, studying, and drafting contracts before signing through to handover of the unit (for buyers), and from signing the contract through to receipt of the sale proceeds (for sellers). What sets us apart is our strong skill in drafting and reviewing real estate sale and purchase agreements before you sign, protecting your rights and helping prevent you from falling victim to fraudulent companies.
Tax Lawyers in Dubai
Specialist tax lawyers assist our clients with their tax matters and represent them before the courts in tax disputes, including commercial tax disputes and real estate tax cases.
Legal Services
Lawyers in Dubai for all types of cases. Our services include:
- Legal consultations
- Private notary services
- Personal status and divorce cases
- Criminal cases at all stages and levels
- Loan and mortgage cases
- Tenancy / rental cases
- Civil cases
- Commercial cases
- Real estate cases and drafting/execution of real estate investment contracts
- Arbitration cases
- Bankruptcy cases
- Labour cases
- Maritime cases and international trade consultations
- Drafting contracts and agreements
- Legal services for business
Criminal Law
Our firm includes specialists with long and advanced experience in defense and advocacy before criminal courts and departments, and in attending with accused persons or civil claimants/victims as required. We provide all necessary services from police stations and public prosecution investigations through trial hearings until the case is concluded at all stages, seeking the best possible results.
Our lawyers appear in all criminal cases at all stages and levels before the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal, and the Court of Cassation in Dubai, as well as before the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi and the federal courts in the other Emirates.
In addition, they can submit applications for temporary release on financial or personal bail, and bring civil claims before the criminal courts to compensate the client/victim for harm arising from the offence, including obtaining and enforcing appropriate civil compensation.
We also represent our clients in the following areas:
- Offences against bodily integrity
- Drug offences
- Bribery and offences against public funds
- Offences against honour and reputation
- Forgery of official and private documents
- Wiretapping / unlawful surveillance offences
- Press, publication, and defamation offences
- Electronic device offences and digital evidence issues
- Traffic violations
- Juvenile offences and teachers’ liability
- Entry and residence of foreigners
- Insult and defamation
- Joint liability in homicide cases
- Cheques, loans, and credit cards
Bounced Cheques – Cheques Without Funds
This is among the most widespread offences in the UAE. Under criminal law, it is defined as giving a cheque to another person in bad faith without sufficient available funds for withdrawal; or withdrawing all or part of the bank balance after issuing the cheque so that the remaining balance is insufficient to cover its value; or ordering the bank not to pay the cheque; or signing or writing the cheque in a way that prevents it from being cashed.
Civil Law
Our team includes civil law specialists. Their key legal services include:
- Drafting and registering sale contracts
- Sale disputes and rescission/nullity of contracts
- Ownership, possession, and pre-emption disputes
- Real estate disputes and claims
- Contractor agreement disputes
- Drafting and registering real estate developer contracts
- Medical liability
- Tenancy disputes and claims, such as lease authentication, rent claims, and eviction actions
We also have strong capability in dispute settlement and advocacy in all other types of civil claims.
Commercial Law
Given the advanced commercial and investment climate in the UAE, legal services for business are among the most important offerings of our firm. We represent companies and individuals at all stages of company formation and provide the best legal options for all their activities:
- Investor rights agreements and protection
- Drafting and reviewing commercial contracts and agreements
- Business formation, licensing, and general partnerships
- Trade licences and commercial coverage under the law
- International trade, including drafting related contracts and agreements
- Protection in commercial agency and sales matters
- Unfair competition in commercial transactions
- Sale and purchase agreements
- Equipment leasing
- Acquisition of business assets
- Bankruptcy and insolvency
Company Law
Our firm incorporates companies and includes specialists in the procedures for establishing and announcing companies and institutions, including amendment schedules, before all local and federal ministries and departments in the UAE—for example the Ministry of Economy and Industry, the Department of Economic Development, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Our role is not limited to company registration. It begins with meetings to study the nature of the proposed business, then selecting the preferred company type. After approval, we draft the memorandum of association, arrange signature by the relevant parties, submit it as part of the registration process, and obtain the licence and commercial register from the competent authorities.
Our team also has strong experience in registering and transferring company ownership, taking all appropriate steps to protect partners and shareholders according to the circumstances and their interests.
Real Estate and Construction
We prepare purchase, sale, and lease financing agreements for our clients, as well as real estate agreements with local and international clients—whether buyers, sellers, developers, suppliers, architects, or contractors—bearing in mind that real estate and leasing are among the most significant investments in the UAE.
We provide legal services to all parties in tenancy-related cases, lease contracts, and disputes, including for example:
- Drafting and executing real estate investment contracts
- Legal opinions on lease contracts and tenancy cases
- Following up enforcement of decisions issued by rental dispute settlement committees
Our firm has worked with many companies and individuals in real estate and leasing and provided them with effective legal solutions. We also have long experience representing tenants, landlords, and contracting and real estate companies before the various rental dispute settlement committees.
Information Technology Law
We live in the age of information technology, with new developments every day. Technology has become a key tool of market competition for business owners. The Abdullah Al Zarooni Advocates and Legal Consultants team has the skill to handle cybercrime cases and technology disputes of all kinds, and can also provide practical legal advice to technology vendors and users.
We can also advise on licensing and distribution, hosting agreements, equipment suppliers, and all forms of IT transactions. We stay up to date with the latest legal and technical aspects of technology transfer arrangements, applications, design, and e-commerce.
Insurance Law
We provide legal advice to policyholders and insurance companies on all insurance regulatory matters, whether within the UAE or internationally. This includes local and federal regulations, company development, reinsurance, fire and accident insurance, and public liability insurance.
Compensation Cases
- Compensation for road traffic accidents
- Compensation for publication and personal harm cases
- Compensation arising from felonies and misdemeanours
- Compensation for bodily, psychological, and moral harm
- Compensation for material and financial loss
- Compensation for workplace injuries and occupational diseases
- Compensation for unlawful government acts
- Compensation for professional errors, including medical and engineering negligence
- Compensation for contract termination and breach of contractual obligations
- Compensation for detention, torture, and violations of human rights laws
Legal Consultations – Advocacy Before the Courts
Given the close link between business and the law, we advise our clients on the laws of the United Arab Emirates and put our full experience at their service to help their businesses and projects succeed and to protect their interests, avoiding obstacles of any kind.
