Counsel from inside the UAE's institutions.
Fauri Law's UAE practice is led by Khaled El Fauri, its founder and principal — a dual-qualified corporate lawyer based in Abu Dhabi, qualified 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 has been General Counsel inside the UAE's sovereign-adjacent institutions — across industrial, financial, and aerospace groups, with responsibility spanning the UAE, Jordan, KSA, and Algeria. UAE clients work directly with senior counsel who understands how the region's institutions, capital, and regulated industries actually operate — and who can run the Canadian side of a cross-border matter in the same firm.
The practice is corporate and commercial (non-contentious). Meet the principal & reach the office →
What we handle in the UAE.
A focused corporate and commercial practice, connecting legal analysis to business context, risk, and implementation. Each area is part of the firm's wider practice — explore the detail on the linked pages.
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Corporate advisory & governance
Structuring, reorganisations, approvals, board and shareholder matters, and ownership changes. Governance & control →
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Commercial contracts
Customer, vendor, SaaS, technology, licensing, distribution, and strategic commercial agreements. Commercial →
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Venture financing & investment
SAFEs, convertibles, priced rounds, investor documents, and financing readiness. Raise capital →
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Transactions & reorganisations
Acquisitions, investments, restructurings, diligence, and closing support. Mergers & acquisitions →
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Ownership & equity structuring
Share classes, vesting, option and incentive plans, and cap-table design. Structure ownership & equity →
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Ongoing & enterprise support
Defined senior-counsel capacity, and configured support for funds, platforms, and portfolios. Enterprise & portfolio →
Counsel for companies, investors, and the teams that build them.
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UAE companies & legal teams
Corporate, commercial, governance, transaction, and Canada-facing matters for businesses and in-house teams operating in the UAE.
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Investors, funds & family offices
Investment documents, portfolio governance, venture financing, and cross-border opportunities, including corporate venture teams.
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Founders & growth companies
Ownership, financing, contracts, governance, and legal infrastructure for companies preparing to scale or raise.
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Platforms, accelerators & venture studios
Approved legal pathways, intake, triage, and escalation across cohorts and multiple companies.
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Canada–UAE businesses & investors
Corporate, commercial, governance, and transaction matters that involve both markets at once.
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Institutions & regulated groups
Governance, commercial, and transaction support informed by years inside institutional and regulated environments.
One firm, both sides of the corridor.
Fauri Law is established and licensed in both the UAE (Fauri Law FZE, Abu Dhabi) and Canada (Fauri Law Professional Corporation, Toronto). For work that crosses the two markets, that means one firm carrying the matter end to end — the UAE side and the Canadian side — rather than coordinating between firms that each see only half.
It is a genuine differentiator for UAE companies expanding into Canada, Canadian companies establishing in the UAE, investors reviewing cross-border opportunities, and legal teams coordinating across jurisdictions. Where a matter calls for specialist or local input, the firm brings it in.
A practice built on cross-border transactions.
Since 2020, Fauri Law has advised founders, investors, and institutions on complex, multi-party cross-border corporate and financing transactions across Canada and the United States, including Delaware and Canada–U.S. structuring.
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$12M+
Equity financings
across multiple transactions
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$9M+
Convertible instruments
convertible notes and SAFEs
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$7M+
Capital reorganisation
multi-class redesign & tax-deferred share-for-share across ten shareholders
The same cross-border discipline these mandates required — multi-party structures, multi-class equity, and tax-aware reorganisations across jurisdictions — is what Fauri Law brings to Canada–UAE corporate, financing, and governance work.
These sit alongside the principal's institutional mandates inside the UAE's sovereign-adjacent groups — billion-dollar M&A, disputes, and reorganisations across the region, handled as General Counsel rather than as outside firm engagements. See the principal's background →
Reading for founders and investors.
Selected writing on the financing and structuring decisions that recur across the corridor.
Guide: a practical walkthrough of an acquisition transaction, start to close.
Download the Acquisition Guide (PDF)Questions about the UAE practice.
Is Fauri Law a licensed law firm in the UAE?
Yes. Fauri Law operates in the UAE through Fauri Law FZE, a law firm licensed in the UAE since 2025 (Licence No. 4425587.01), based in Abu Dhabi. The UAE practice is non-contentious, focused on corporate, commercial, governance, venture, and transactional matters.
Where is the UAE office, and does the firm serve Dubai as well as Abu Dhabi?
The office is in Abu Dhabi (D1 Building, Al Raha Beach). The firm serves clients across the UAE, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and meets clients in person in the UAE.
What kind of UAE matters does Fauri Law handle?
Corporate advisory and governance, commercial contracts, venture financing and investment support, transactions and reorganisations, ownership and equity structuring, and ongoing or enterprise-level counsel. It is a corporate and commercial practice; it does not handle litigation.
What makes Fauri Law different for Canada–UAE work?
The firm is licensed in both the UAE and Canada and led by a lawyer qualified in both common law (Ontario) and civil law (Jordan), with more than a decade inside the UAE'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 organisation operates.
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.
Speak with the principal.
Khaled El Fauri
Based in Abu Dhabi · Leads the UAE practice
- Bar of Ontario
- Jordan Bar
- JD · U of Toronto
- LLM · Sussex
- GC inside UAE groups · 10+ yrs
Dual-qualified corporate lawyer (Bar of Ontario, common law; Jordan Bar, civil law) with more than a decade as General Counsel inside the UAE's sovereign-adjacent industrial, financial, and aerospace groups, and senior counsel roles on a Canadian public-company merger and government-scale infrastructure programs. He leads the UAE practice and is responsible for the Canadian practice and team.
UAE Office
Fauri Law FZE
D1 Building, Office 801
Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Licensed 2025 · Licence No. 4425587.01
Tel. +971 (0) 50 50 27530
Canada Office
Fauri Law Professional Corporation
First Canadian Place
100 King Street West, 57th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5X 1C7, Canada
Tel. +1 (416) 915-4233
Email: khaled@faurilaw.ca
Discuss a UAE or Canada–UAE matter.
For senior counsel on a UAE matter, a Canada–UAE business issue, or recurring legal support for a company, fund, platform, or portfolio, Fauri Law can help determine the right path.