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Dear Friends and Clients, We are still enjoying the cooler weather and should spend the last few weeks if possible outdoors. But business happens mostly indoors – in soundproof rooms and without CCTV. When I still worked behind the Iron Curtain east of Austria, we preferred meetings on public park benches because we could be

Dear Friends and Clients, We had the great pleasure of welcoming Dr. Gordian Gaeta at our office event on February 23rd. He was kind enough to hold a speech for our guests about the economic outlook worldwide and especially in the Middle East region. I only want to summarize a very few points of this

Dear Friends and Clients, When we say the world is not the same as yesterday it is an all-time true saying. But maybe it has become more true recently. The future will be one of the most interesting times we have experienced in decades, maybe even since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nearly all

Dear Friends and Clients, An interesting year has come to an end. Most of us, living and working in the UAE, have experienced some downturn in investment due to the oil price slump. But the ones who kept their eyes open found other ways to make good money. The diversification in economy and flexibility of

Dear Friends and Clients, Isn´t it impressing to live in a country where the obligation to read is defined by a law? If you are employed, will you be required to pause your duties, take up a book and start reading? Will there be exact reading times, like the prayer times? Does the law apply

Dear Friends and Clients, Are we living in an island of the blessed? If you read HH Shaikh Mohammed´s statement at the end of our newsletter you must admit that there is hardly any other country in the world which has achieved such success. This is exactly what we have always written for the 11

Dear Friends and Clients, Now we are also trademark agents. It’s always good to have young, dynamic lawyers in old firms (Strohal Legal dates back to 1871) because it opens new doors of consultancy. So please come along, if you don’t have a trademark yet we can also design one for you, or if you

Trademark Registration   Trademark Registration in the UAE Currently there are more than 350,000 Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMEs) in the UAE, among them are similar companies with equal goods and services. A trademark can be used to distinguish your company as well as your products and services from the competitor’s and to create

Privacy Under UAE’s Law Perspective Data sharing and its potential risks A recent study conducted in June in by Kaspersky Lab, an international software security group, revealed that people are prone to share sensitive data or secrets on the internet. This may happen willingly, by accident, and out of unawareness of what dangerous internet behaviour

Bei der Berechnung der “End of Service Gratuity” kommt es immer wieder zu Unsicherheiten. Was muss der Arbeitgeber dem Arbeitnehmer bei Beendigung des Arbeitsverhältnisses zahlen? Wie hoch ist die “End of Service Gratuity”, wenn die Kündigung des Arbeitsverhältnisses durch den Arbeitnehmer erfolgt? Werden Allowances in die Berechnung der Abfindung einbezogen? Wie wird die “End of