Presentation of our practice in the United Arab Emirates:

The Ras al Khaimah office is headed by Edouard Salwan, a lawyer registered with the Beirut Bar and registered as a legal consultant .

The office works for European SMEs (5 to 500 million euros), as well as for entrepreneurs or multinationals wishing to establish or develop in the Middle East, since Ras al Khaimah, Dubai or Abu Dhabi are often used as a logistics, commercial or financial hub, to structure the development of activities in Asia and/or Africa.

The office assists its clients on the structuring of their project, helping them to choose the appropriate structure, either within the Freezones allowing them to retain 100% control of their capital, or with local partners ( sponsors ) for all distribution, industrial or financial activities throughout the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East. The office assists and advises its clients in the daily operation of their business both in the United Arab Emirates and internationally, benefiting from Ras al Khaimah, Dubai and Abu Dhabi as its regional base.

The main resident partners are Bertrand Dumon and Edouard Salwan. They are fluent in five languages ​​(French, Italian, English, German and Arabic) and are accustomed to leading and negotiating simple or complex transactions in a challenging environment, often participating in their clients' strategic decisions in the context of mergers and acquisitions, financing roundtables, tax structuring in the UAE, the GCC or Africa.

With 100 years of combined experience as corporate and tax partners in the world's leading law firms and multinationals, combined with their local expertise across the Middle East and Africa, the partners are able to oversee and coordinate all local teams in the best interests of their clients.

Our areas of expertise:

Dumon Partners is involved in the structuring of funds, the creation of financial institutions, investment companies as well as the negotiation and management of any investment of these structures and/or their commercial operation.

Dumon Partners is also very active with companies that need a practical understanding of the wholesale or retail distribution of their products in the Middle East. We are also involved in the structuring and negotiation of infrastructure projects, mining concessions and commodity trading throughout the GCC and the African continent.

Dumon Partners is involved in commodity trading, aircraft trading , industrial projects, engineering, healthcare, infrastructure, real estate projects, art, luxury sectors, food and beverage, restaurants and hospitality in the Middle East and Africa.