Business Succession Planning

For business owners operating in the UAE, succession planning extends beyond personal assets to encompass their business interests: shares in mainland companies, free zone entities, and offshore structures. What happens to your business interest when you die? Who steps in? Is there a mechanism to ensure the business continues operating without disruption? Are minority shareholders protected?

These are questions that many business owners defer - and that their families pay the price for later. We advise on business succession structures including shareholder agreements with buy-sell provisions, the use of holding structures to simplify succession, and the coordination of Will provisions with the constitutional documents of the business itself.