UAE Business Update
About this event
This morning seminar will focus on the legal framework and conducting business in the UAE.
GDPR - This EU regulation comes into effect on 25 May, and is the most significant development in data protection law for over 2 decades. For those organisations where data protection has not previously been a consideration some of the necessary steps for compliance with GDPR will be particularly onerous Find out how this change could potentially impact on your business.
CONTRACT RISK - Smart contracting practices are the driving force to successful business relationships. This overview will provide details of both client and supplier contracts including the key issues for managing your risk.
VAT - is likely to significantly affect nearly every UAE business, and so since its implementation in January 2018, what are the latest developments. Failing to comply as an organization will incur heavy penalties. Do you know the full implications?
PROGRAMME
Registration from 9:15am - 10am
Introduction by Terry Willis 10am
GDPR 10:10 - 10:50
Contract Risk 10:50 - 11:30
Coffee Break 11:30 - 11:40
VAT 11:40 - 12:20
Q&A Discussion 12:20 - 12:45
Networking Lunch 12:45 onwards
330 Dirhams including VAT - EIC Members
400 Dirhams including VAT - EIC Non Members/Guests
Who Should Attend
Contracts professionals, Business Development Specialists, Managers, Compliance staff, Finance and Admin Personnel, Personnel from legal and a non-legal background, and anyone who needs to have understanding of VAT, GDPR and Contracts.
GUEST SPEAKERS
GDPR - Dino Wilkinson - Clyde & Co.
Dino is recognized as one of the leading technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) lawyers in the Middle East. He has more than 10 years experience in advising clients throughout the region on transactional and advisory TMT matters.
Dino has been constantly marked in the top tier of TMT specialists in the UAE by independent legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers Global.
VAT - Ahmed AlSwaiti - GNOSIS
Ahmed has diversified professional experience in the fields of tax advisory and compliance, accounting and book keeping due diligence and advisory projects along to statutory tax accounting and audit work. Ahmed is former manager with Ernst & Young Middle East.
Contract Risk - Olga Labai Oil & Gas Consultants
Olga is both a practicing lawyer and trainer with over 12 years of professional experience providing legal advice on both contentious and non-contentious basis within the upstream oil and gas sector.
Prior to forming Oil & Gas Consultants she worked for Sakhalin Energy and Weatherford in the Middle East.