New DIFC Law Set to Help Small Private Companies in UAE Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has enacted changes to the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) authority’s legal and regulatory framework. The newly enacted laws, which update the DIFC’s companies and property regimes, as well as the overall operating environment for entities based in the centre, aim to ensure that the DIFC remains the most sophisticated and business-friendly common law jurisdiction in the region. The new law will now follow a public and private company regime after substantial research, consultation and global benchmarking to allow maximum flexibility, especially for small private companies. In addition, it will provide appropriate levels of oversight for complex corporate arrangements, such as those associated with listed entities, mergers, schemes of arrangement and debt restructurings. The changes t...