Practice Areas
We are a firm with a pioneering heritage and a resolute focus on its core sectors of constructions, infrastructure, banking and finance and corporate commercial. With highly qualified lawyers, we advise corporates, financial institutions, private individuals, and governmental entities.
We pride ourselves in our exquisite highly skilled lawyers who focus on supporting our clients to pursue opportunities, prioritize their interests and manage risks, whilst focusing on their ‘highest priority” which is to provide the business community with the means to meet constantly evolving legal obligations just as we help our clients keep pace with industry transformations, as we own a comprehensive, diverse and vast experience spanning a broad range of practice areas, this experience helps us to spot legal concerns before disputes arise, promptly respond to, and eventually defend our clients’ interests.
We have handled various construction contracts disputes most of which are based on the FIDIC Conditions of Contract or JCT standard form of agreement. We have advised our clients at the tendering process and negotiating the contracts in addition to advising them during the process of executing the works and attending to all relevant queries, more importantly, we have defended our clients in many of the major claims and disputes over the country related to mega and multi-use projects.
Our lawyers are specialized in taking all necessary measures and actions starting from Summary Applications to stay the liquidation of bank guaranties, precautionary attach the opponents’ monies and evicting the contractors from the project sites up till obtaining favourable judgment up to the satisfaction of the client and sometimes we succeeded in obtaining judgments beyond their expectations and initial claims which made us one of the leading firms in this field.
We effectively advise banks and other types of financiers and borrowers on all types of structured financing from simple secured or unsecured bilateral lending to multifaceted and complicated credit facilities. We also attend to legal documentation for bank lending covering documentation for Lenders and Borrowers including banks; Legal audits for financiers; debt collection/recovery for local and international Banks and financial institutions.
In addition to that, our lawyers are well experienced in Islamic finance and had significantly handled many disputes in this regard where Islamic Banks were involved in financing entrepreneurs in big projects, also we have assisted many banks in in drafting existing all required standard forms for different kinds of Islamic Financing to ensure full compliance with Sharia’ Rules, then adjusting each of these documents as necessary on case to case basis depending on the nature and/or type of the subject finance, as stated in the Facility offer letter (FOL) i.e. Istisna’, Murabaha, Musawamah or Mudaraba, in addition to the collateral documents (securities for obligations) to ensure proper repayment of the finance.
The Firm is also specialised in preparing the claims and representing the clients in litigating their claims before courts and arbitration tribunals. Our lawyers have worked on many of the complicated matters in the UAE and represented clients in cases pertaining to mega projects in the country ensuring to achieve the best results in protecting their interests and secure all their entitlements and rights, while concentrating on taking all necessary summary measure in order to precautionary safeguard the clients’ rights and interests.
Our lawyers are intensively well equipped with different kinds of tools and instruments in addition to the experience necessary to the effective defence of the claims and ensure proper representation of the clients before the courts and arbitration tribunals. We have an extinguished track records of claims handled before the courts where we have completely maintained the interests of the clients up to their satisfaction.
We are considered one of the leading firms that have adopted “Mediation” as an alternative dispute resolution and have participated in resolving many disputes through Mediation and have succeeded in solely resolving such disputes maintaining the business relationship between the disputed parties and helping them in developing further areas of cooperation.
On the other hand, we have also implemented Neutral Evaluation as an alternative dispute resolution, where each party gets a chance to present the case to a neutral person called an “evaluator.” This is not a binding method to resolve the dispute however, the parties typically use it as a basis for trying to negotiate a resolution of the dispute, where we have significantly participated and advised disputing parties of such guidelines giving them the chance to understand what exactly are their rights and liabilities in order for them to take the right decision in resolving the dispute which will lead to saving them from incurring additional costs and expenses.
Saba Bridges advises and represents clients on the entire spectrum of the national and international arbitration process, including early case assessment and definition of arbitration strategies, pre-dispute negotiations, selection of arbitrators, the filing and conduct of international arbitration proceedings, advocacy at arbitration hearings, and the ratification, nullification and enforcement of arbitral awards. We further advise clients on drafting, negotiating and/or reviewing arbitration clauses or other dispute resolution clauses in a variety of contracts and situations.
We have served as legal counsel in plenty of commercial, investment and construction arbitrations, for clients including businesses of all sizes, and have worked hand-in-hand with our clients, allowing them to play a significant role in the resolution of their dispute as they desire, but of course under our proper and efficient legal guidance, to ensure achieving their ultimate goals.
The acquisition of a company conceals hidden risks whose management is imperious. Through due diligence, we are in the position to back you in order to secure your investment.
Our Due Diligence practice includes identifying potential “deal killer” defects in the target and avoid a bad business transaction; confirmation that the business is what it appears to be, gain information that will be useful for valuing assets, defining representations and warranties, and/or negotiating price concessions, verifying that the transaction complies with investment or acquisition criteria.
We have participated in a wide range of commercial contracts, transactions and joint ventures, and also our lawyers have sound experience in in agency, distribution, franchising, sale of goods and services, related to various sectors, including: utilities, financial services, real estate, retail, education, health, construction, transportation and manufacturing.
We advise clients and address both local and international requirements and standards, together with the specific laws, regulations, practices and customs of the UAE in light of the precedents of the Supreme Courts. Some areas of our deep involvements were in contracts associated antitrust and competition, fraud, real estate and property development, banking and finance, intellectual property, restructuring and insolvency.
Our strength lies in our in-depth understanding and knowledge of the local legal and regulatory environment which, when coupled with the delivery of our advice in line with international legal standards, enables us to provide the most cost-effective, practical and commercial advice whilst ensuring legal objectives are also met.
The firm is renowned as a leader in pro bono representation in addition to voluntary work by way of representing financially incapable clients against no charge whatsoever and taking all necessary measures and initiating necessary legal action to assist them reach out to their rights and entitlements.
This also included defending accused persons who can not afford hiring a lawyer and rendered all required legal services and representation until final judgments were issued by the competent courts.
Our firm welcome everyone to approach us should they require unaffordable legal assistance as we always believed that justice is priceless, and it is the duty of all firms to participate and contribute to achieving such noble and sublime goals.