Advisory and structural support for developers, development investors, and joint-venture parties across the UAE project life-cycle.
Provided by Moore Law Firm Real Estate LLC · Trade Licence 998333 · RERA No. 35776 · Dubai Land Department supervision.
Real-estate development in the United Arab Emirates is a structured activity. The country has built a sophisticated regulatory framework for development — covering site allocation, master-developer arrangements, project licensing, escrow and trust-account requirements, off-plan sales regulation, completion and handover obligations, and the various consumer-protection arrangements that protect off-plan buyers. The Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA), the Dubai Land Department (DLD), and the various Emirate-level land authorities are the principal regulators.
Moore Law's development practice provides advisory and structural support across this framework. The firm acts for developers, development investors, joint-venture parties, and end-user investors involved in development projects. The work integrates with the firm's Corporate Services practice on entity and capital arrangements and with the Legal & Tax practice on the cross-border tax and contracting dimensions where they arise.
The practice is positioned as advisory and counsel — the firm does not act as developer itself. This independence allows the firm to provide candid strategic input across the project life-cycle, with the client's interests as the principal point of reference.
Advisory on site selection and project conception — including review of the regulatory framework applicable to the proposed location, the master-developer or land-authority arrangements that will govern the project, and the structural choices that should be made before significant capital is committed.
Structuring of the development project — including the choice of development entity, the integration with master-developer arrangements, the structuring of capital contributions and project financing, and the design of the long-term holding and disposition strategy for the completed project.
Navigation of the development regulatory framework — including RERA project registration, escrow account establishment under the relevant escrow regulations, off-plan sales authorisation, marketing and sales-launch requirements, and the various periodic regulatory filings that apply through the project life-cycle.
For projects undertaken as joint ventures — between developers, between developers and investors, or between developers and landowners — structuring of the JV arrangements, including the contribution mechanics, governance, funding structure, and exit arrangements. Coordination with the firm's Corporate Services practice on the underlying entity arrangements.
Drafting of the project contract framework — including master sales-and-purchase agreement templates, contractor and consultant agreements, professional-services arrangements, and the various agreements that govern the project's progress through to handover.
Ongoing counsel during project execution — handling the regulatory, contractual, and structural questions that arise during the construction, marketing, sales, and handover phases of the project. For development investors who do not have in-house counsel, this is often the most valuable phase of the engagement.