At a Glance Guide: Ogier in the Middle East

Ogier has opened in Dubai, providing clients with on-the-ground legal, corporate services, and regulatory consulting. Our approach is to keep it simple. We are agile and strive to work through complexity to provide sound judgment on what really matters, not losing sight of the need for effective project management and superb client service on each transaction.

Five things to know about Ogier's legal services

Ogier advises clients in the Middle East on British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Ireland and Luxembourg law across its network of offices, which also includes Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.

Our transactional services cover Banking and Finance, including Islamic finance and fund finance and Corporate law. Ogier's investments funds team advises on the full spectrum of fund structures and strategies.

From a private wealth perspective Ogier has a long track record of assisting ultra-high net worth families from the region to structure and support their wealth and businesses and ensure an orderly transfer of wealth to the next generations.

Our contentious legal services support our spectrum of transactional services, along with restructuring, fraud and asset tracing. With experience in cross-border, multi-million dollar disputes across much of the globe, we resolve disputes in negotiation, mediation, arbitration or in court.

Our Restructuring and Corporate Recovery team advises banks, financial intermediaries, onshore counsel and other professional services providers with company structures, winding up and cross-border insolvency applications, restructuring applications, liquidation, negligence and partnership disputes.

Five things to know about Ogier Global's corporate and fiduciary services

Integrated legal and corporate administration services: We work with Ogier's legal teams to incorporate and administer vehicles including the formation and administration of asset finance vehicles, public and private debt issuers and securitisation vehicles.

Corporate services: We assist with entity registration, corporate secretarial services, registered office, local directorships and general manager mandates, visa assistance, bank account opening, accounting, bookkeeping and VAT registration.

Private Wealth: We assist with foundation establishment in Dubai International Finance Centre and registered office services as well as the electronic maintaining of records and the provision of foundation council members where required.

Ogier Regulatory Consulting: We help navigate increasingly regulated environments through the business lifecycle and provide solutions for when issues arise. We assist in the authorisation of regulated firms, outsourced authorised functions and assist with fund registration and fund notification to relevant authorities.

Virtual assets: We assist with decentralised finance AML compliance, risk reporting and audits, effectiveness reviews of AML controls, Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority registration and authorisation, virtual asset exchange establishment and virtual asset risk assessment and risk management.