Four Important Issues To Consider First You’re an expatriate and you want to set up a business in Dubai. Where do you start? What are the legal procedures you should pass through? Where is the best location to set up your business? Do you set up in a free-zone or not? What are the Visa […]

FIVE TIME-BUSTING TECHNIQUES TO INCREASE YOUR DAILY PRODUCTIVITY Are you running your own business? Well if you are, you have a lot of different things on your plate that you must handle. Even if you aren’t a business owner, like most people, you have to handle a really large workload. But, how do you handle […]

TIPS TO KEEP YOUR BUSINESS AFLOAT IN THE FIRST YEAR. The boxer, Mike Tyson, once said in a press conference “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. While Tyson might have simply been giving a witty answer in rebuttal to his opponent’s trash-talking, he spoke a profound truth that any business […]

Three years ago, a private basic education institute that had been started in the area where I was living at the time was forced to closed down. The school had been growing and had quite a large number of students. However, the school’s founder had not been able to track the cash flow of the […]

What ideas come to mind when you hear the word “Dubai”? Does your mind begin to formulate images of the sorts of innovations and technological advancements that have led to the city of Dubai being classified as the most rapidly growing city in the world? Do you begin to form a Guinness Book of World […]

Being successful is cheaper than you think. While everyone is busy looking for jobs around Dubai, there is actually an untapped reservoir for setting yourself up as an entrepreneur in the city. What we’re trying to say here is that why compete in the rat race when for only a couple of hundred dirhams you […]

As we enter 2017, there are a number of issues that owners of UAE businesses of all sizes and across all sectors will face. In this article, I will highlight the areas we, as a business ourselves, feel will be hot topic items in 2017, and the biggest issues our existing clients have been engaging […]

The head of Dubai Land Department (DLD) has predicted a rebound for the city’s real estate market this year, signaling an upward trend for sustained growth in the run-up to Expo 2020. Sultan Butti Bin Merjen, director-general of DLD made the comments in an annual report for 2016 which revealed that total real estate transactions […]

The annual Powering Africa Summit returns to Washington DC this March providing a platform for Africa’s energy sector stakeholders and developers to engage multilateral, global investors and technology providers. The meeting will present backbone energy and infrastructure projects to the most proactive partners. The Summit in 2016 welcomed 620 attendees from 18 countries and whilst […]

UAE equity markets, both Dubai and Abu Dhabi, remained resilient to the fall in the oil price in H1 2016. The Dubai General Index and Abu Dhabi General Index registered year-to-date returns of 6.5 percent and 1.9 percent respectively. The better performance of telecom, banking and real estate stocks in UAE markets have been the […]