Banking disputes
Facilities, guarantees, cheques and recovery.
Banks, financial institutions and insurers rely on us for recovery actions, guarantees, forged-document cases and regulatory questions, and individuals and companies turn to us when they face claims from financial institutions.
Our financial services lawyers work with banks at the core of their business — lending and information management, organisational and employment matters, outsourcing, tax and offshore structuring — and represent them in civil and criminal cases before the courts of first instance, appeal and cassation.
How we help
- Debt recovery and enforcement of securities
- Personal and corporate guarantees
- Tax and quasi-judicial committees
Specialisms
Taxation
Objections and tax dispute committees.
Representative matters
Successfully acted for a client in criminal and civil litigation to recover approximately AED 16 million of dishonoured payments resulting from fraud and conspiracy by parties in the UAE and Switzerland.
Represented a defendant in an action filed by Barclays Bank before the DIFC Courts in respect of personal guarantees exceeding USD 15 million.
Represented a foreign bank in pursuing persons involved in a major fraud, with assets received in the UAE and foreign jurisdictions.
Advised an insurance company on a claim by a bank based on a forged assignment.
Represented a BVI-registered claimant in a multi-party dispute before the DIFC Courts, recovering approximately AED 5 million advanced under a loan agreement whose repayment was tied to an insurance claim of about AED 40 million.
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