Law Update
Al Tamimi & Company is at the forefront of sharing legal knowledge and insights from across the Middle East & North Africa, combining regional expertise and practical experience to keep you informed on the latest developments shaping the legal landscape.
This series features audio versions of selected articles from our monthly Law Update publication, covering a wide range of topics including breaking legal news, legislative changes, and regulatory reforms.
Access to the right information is essential in today’s global economy, and these audio editions offer a convenient way to stay up to date, anytime, anywhere.
Episodes
35 episodes
Designing a Workable Carbon Capture Use and Storage Regulatory Regime: Key Policy Challenges
Carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is being adopted by signatories to the Paris Agreement to assist them in meeting their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Find all the episodes in this ed...
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UAE Project Disruption and Geopolitical Risk — Key Contractual Considerations
The military conflict ensuing in the Gulf region following the events of 28 February 2026 has direct impact on developers, sponsors, lenders, contractors and insurers and their infrastructure projects in the region. This alert sets out certain ...
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Egypt’s Healthcare Insurance Sector: Closing the Regulatory Gap for Healthcare Intermediaries
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The UAE’s Clinical Trials Moment: How New Federal Laws and Tax Credits are Reshaping Research
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Recent Dubai Court of Cassation Judgment: Licensing Restrictions and the Legal Threshold for Public Policy Nullity
The Energy edition The Dubai Court of Cassation recently issued a judgment that addresses a recurring and commercially consequential question in the UAE: does a party’s conduct of activities beyond the scop...
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Dubai Court of Cassation affirms inadmissibility of appeal and clarifies arbitration–assignment interplay in decision 1685/2025/445
The Energy edition The Dubai Court of Cassation (“DCC”) issued a significant decision in case number 1685/2025/445 delivered on 30 December 2025. The judgment concerns a commercial dispute concerning the i...
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Recent Dubai Court of Cassation Judgment – Licencing restrictions and the legal threshold for public policy nullity
The Energy edition The Dubai Court of Cassation recently issued a judgment that addresses a recurring and commercially consequential question in the UAE: does a party’s conduct of activities beyond the scope of i...
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Saudi Arabia’s Energy Evolution: What Investors Need to Know Now
The Energy edition Saudi Arabia is executing one of the most consequential energy sector overhauls globally. The Kingdom is preserving market leadership in oil and gas while advancing a diversified power system a...
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The Nuclear Landscape in the Middle East: Status, Drivers, and the Role of SMRs
The Energy edition The Middle East is entering a new phase in civil nuclear development, moving from aspiration to operation and expansion. The region’s energy mix is diversifying under pressures to decarbonise, ...
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The First Methodology Agreed under the Paris Agreement to Facilitate Internationally Transferable Carbon Credits
The Energy edition The Paris Agreement is the landmark international climate treaty that was entered into in 2015. Currently, 195 countries are parties to the Paris Agreement. Find all the episo...
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Model Gold Mining Concession Agreements in Egypt: Key Clauses Investors Should Understand
The Technology edition Egypt has overhauled its mining legal framework, replacing the legacy gold cost recovery concession model with a streamlined, permit-based regime designed to provide clarity, predictability...
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Funding Defaults in Oil & Gas JOAs: Forfeiture, Dilution, and the Penalty Rule
The Energy edition The basic bargain in an oil and gas joint-operating agreement (JOA) is simple enough: a group of participants shares risk and reward in an oil or gas project in proportion to their participatin...
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Infrastructure PPP and Secondary Exits: Signs of a Developing Market
The Energy edition The UAE has successfully adopted public-private partnerships (PPP) as a model for procuring infrastructure across many sectors. The rollout of PPP has been supported by the government in the fo...
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Designing a Workable Carbon Capture Use and Storage Regulatory Regime: Core Issues
The Energy edition Carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is moving from a technical possibility to a practical necessity to cut emissions from industries that are hard to decarbonise. However, the technology it...
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Building the next LNG wave: Construction and expansion dynamics in the Middle East
The Energy edition The Middle East sits at the centre of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry’s next growth chapter. Driven by structural gas demand in Asia, European diversification away from Russian pipelin...
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Recent Court Judgments: UAE Courts Affirm Breach‑Based Cancellation of Longstanding Commercial Agencies
The Technology edition What is distinctive in these cases is the clear delineation between Article 30’s moratorium against unilateral, no‑fault termination and the continued availability of breach‑based cancellat...
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Recent Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation Judgment: The Enforceability of Consumer Credit Claims in the UAE
The Technology edition Since the introduction of Article 121 bis into the Central Bank Law, courts have been asked to determine when a bank may bring proceedings to recover consumer credit, and what constitutes “...
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