What we do
Foundations
Establishing and amending foundations as part of a structure rather than in isolation: who sits on the council, who can remove them, who benefits, and what happens at the next generation.
What the work is
A foundation is an orphan structure with its own legal personality. It has no shareholders, which is the point of it and also the difficulty: once assets are in, the constitutional documents are the only thing standing between the founder's intention and whoever holds the pen afterwards.
So the work is on the constitution rather than on the wrapper. Who appoints and removes council members. Whether a guardian exists and what they can actually stop. What the founder retains, and whether retaining it undermines the separation that made the foundation worth having. What happens when the founder dies.
Both ADGM and DIFC offer foundation regimes, and every amendment is checked against the regulations of the place it is made in rather than against a general idea of how foundations work.
Where the boundary sits
Establishment and registration are regulated steps carried out by licensed firms. Our work is on the shape: what the foundation should say, how it sits in the wider structure, and what to instruct. The drafting is done by the firm instructed to do it, to a brief we write.