Corporate advisory & governance
Formation, structuring, governance, and approvals — including free-zone and mainland entities and group structures.
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Fauri Law · Abu Dhabi Branch
Abu Dhabi — corporate & venture counsel across the Gulf.
The Abu Dhabi branch of Fauri Law — supporting UAE/Gulf corporate and commercial matters and Canada–UAE cross-border work, from Al Raha Beach.
D1 Building, Office 701 · Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi · +971 50 5070 625
BranchFauri Law FZE
Head officeToronto
Licensed2025
FocusCorporate & venture
MarketsUAE & Canada
Overview
Senior corporate counsel in Abu Dhabi.
Fauri Law FZE is the Abu Dhabi branch of Fauri Law, a Toronto-founded Canadian corporate and venture law firm. The branch supports UAE/Gulf corporate and commercial matters and Canada–UAE cross-border work, alongside the firm’s Toronto practice.
The firm is led by Khaled El Fauri, its founder and principal — a dual-qualified corporate lawyer admitted at the Bar of Ontario (common law) and the Jordan Bar (civil law), based in Toronto, where he leads the firm’s Toronto and Abu Dhabi teams. For more than a decade he served as General Counsel inside the UAE’s sovereign-adjacent institutions — across industrial, financial, and aerospace groups — with responsibility spanning the UAE, Jordan, KSA, and Algeria.
The practice is corporate and commercial (non-contentious). Licensed in both Canada and the UAE, a cross-border matter is handled by one firm on both sides.
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UAE Capabilities
What we handle in the UAE.
A focused corporate and commercial practice, connecting legal analysis to business context, risk, and implementation across the Gulf and on cross-border deals.
Commercial contracts
Customer, vendor, SaaS, technology, licensing, distribution, and strategic commercial agreements.
CommercialVenture financing & investment
SAFEs, convertibles, priced rounds, investor documents, and Gulf–Canada cross-border structuring.
Raise capitalTransactions & reorganizations
Acquisitions, investments, restructurings, diligence, and closing support.
Mergers & acquisitionsOwnership & equity structuring
Share classes, vesting, option and incentive plans, and cap-table design.
Structure ownership & equityOngoing & enterprise support
Defined senior-counsel capacity, and configured support for funds, platforms, and portfolios.
Enterprise & portfolioWho We Serve
Counsel for companies, investors, and the teams that build them.
Founders & growth companies
Formation, ownership, financing, contracts, governance, and the legal infrastructure for companies preparing to scale or raise.
Investors, funds & family offices
Venture and growth investments, investment documents, structuring, diligence, and portfolio governance across the Gulf.
Corporates & multinationals
UAE entities, subsidiaries, governance, commercial contracts, and cross-border corporate and transaction matters.
Platforms, accelerators & studios
Approved legal pathways, intake, triage, and escalation across cohorts and multiple companies.
Relocating & cross-border clients
Those moving capital, companies, or operations between the UAE and Canada — handled by one firm on both sides.
Institutions & regulated groups
Governance, commercial, and transaction support informed by years inside the region’s sovereign-adjacent and regulated institutions.
Why Fauri Law
Two legal systems, one senior advisor.
Common-law and civil-law fluency, more than a decade inside the region’s institutions, paired with a way of working that is organized, scoped, and built to scale.
The judgment
Dual-qualified, regionally grounded
Advice grounded in senior in-house and advisory work across the UAE and the region — common law and civil law, in one advisor who has sat on the client’s side of the table.
The structure
One firm, both markets
Bespoke advisory where judgment matters most, structured systems for the matters that recur, and enterprise support for funds and portfolios — one firm across the UAE and Canada.
Track Record
Anchored by senior in-house experience.
The UAE practice is anchored by more than a decade of senior in-house and advisory work inside the region’s institutions — alongside the firm’s cross-border corporate and financing mandates.
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Years as General Counsel
Inside the UAE’s sovereign-adjacent industrial, financial, and aerospace groups.
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M&A & reorganizations
Billion-dollar transactions, disputes, and restructurings led in-house.
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Jurisdictions
Responsibility spanning the UAE, Jordan, KSA, and Algeria.
That in-house standard — billion-dollar M&A, disputes, and reorganizations across four jurisdictions — sits alongside the firm’s cross-border corporate and financing work between the UAE and Canada, including Canada–U.S. and Delaware structuring.
The result is regional depth with cross-border reach: a senior advisor fluent in both the civil-law systems of the Gulf and the common-law frameworks of North America.
Latest Insights
Reading for founders and investors.
Selected writing on the ownership, governance, and transaction decisions that recur for companies operating across the Gulf and Canada.
Shareholder Agreements The complete guide to shareholder agreements Read the guide Mergers & Acquisitions A guideline to your M&A transaction Read the guide Founders What a founders’ agreement should include Read the guide
The Acquisition Guide
A practical walkthrough of an acquisition transaction, start to close.
Have questions?
Find answers.
Is Fauri Law licensed to practice in the UAE?
Yes. Fauri Law’s Abu Dhabi branch operates as Fauri Law FZE, a Free Zone Establishment licensed in 2025. It is part of Fauri Law, a Toronto-founded Canadian firm, and focuses on corporate, commercial, governance, venture, and Canada–UAE cross-border matters (non-contentious).
Where is the Abu Dhabi branch?
At D1 Building, Office 701, Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
What kind of UAE matters does Fauri Law handle?
Corporate advisory and governance, commercial contracts, venture financing and investment support, transactions and reorganizations, ownership and equity structuring, and ongoing or enterprise-level counsel. It is a corporate and commercial practice; it does not handle litigation.
Does the firm handle UAE company formation and free zones?
Yes — corporate formation, structuring, and governance for free-zone and mainland entities and group structures, as part of the corporate advisory practice. The specific structure and authority are confirmed at intake, and the firm coordinates with the relevant free-zone or licensing authority where required.
What makes Fauri Law different for Canada–UAE work?
The firm is licensed in both Canada and the UAE and led by a lawyer qualified in both common law (Ontario) and civil law (Jordan), with more than a decade inside the region’s institutions. A cross-border matter is handled by one firm across both markets rather than split between two.
Can the firm support investors, funds, accelerators, or portfolio platforms?
Yes. The firm supports funds, accelerators, venture studios, and portfolio platforms through configured legal pathways, intake, triage, escalation, and ongoing counsel — designed around how the organization operates. See Enterprise & Portfolio Support.
How does an engagement start?
Through a consultation or matter intake, followed by conflict review, scope confirmation, and written engagement terms before work begins. Engagements are defined-scope and lawyer-led.
Key Contact
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Founder & Principal
Khaled El Fauri
Leads the firm from the Toronto head office
Bar of Ontario Jordan Bar · Civil law JD · U of Toronto LLM · Sussex UAE General Counsel Cross-border Canada–UAE
A dual-qualified corporate lawyer admitted at the Bar of Ontario (common law) and the Jordan Bar (civil law), with deep, current experience in the UAE’s civil-law system. For more than a decade he served as General Counsel inside the UAE’s sovereign-adjacent institutions — industrial, financial, and aerospace groups — with responsibility spanning the UAE, Jordan, KSA, and Algeria. He founded Fauri Law in 2020 and is based in Toronto, where he leads the firm’s Toronto and Abu Dhabi teams.
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Fauri Law FZE
Head Office · Toronto
Fauri Law Professional Corporation
First Canadian Place
100 King Street West, 57th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5X 1C7, Canada
Tel. +1 (416) 915‑4233
100 King Street West, 57th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5X 1C7, Canada
Tel. +1 (416) 915‑4233
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For senior counsel on a UAE or Gulf business issue, a Canada–UAE cross-border matter, or recurring legal support for a company, fund, platform, or portfolio, Fauri Law can help determine the right path.