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Find out moreWelcome to the first edition of Law Update for 2025. As we begin this exciting year, we are pleased to turn our attention to one of the most dynamic sectors in the UAE and the broader GCC region – healthcare. Over the past several years, the region has seen unprecedented growth in this sector, driven by legislative advancements, technological innovations, and the increasing focus on sustainability and AI. As such, healthcare is set to be one of the most important sectors in the coming decade.
In this issue, we explore key themes that are significantly shaping the future of healthcare in the UAE, such as recent changes in foreign ownership laws. These reforms present a major opportunity for foreign investors, opening up new avenues for international collaborations and improving the overall healthcare infrastructure. The changes in ownership laws are an important milestone, and we provide an analysis of what this means for the industry and the various players involved.
Read NowSaudi Arabia recently issued its new e-commerce law. The E-Commerce Law, which will be administered by the Ministry of Commerce & Investment, comes into effect in late October 2019, 90 days following its publication in the Official Gazette on 24 July 2019. The associated Regulations are expected to follow shortly thereafter.
The Law focuses primarily on customer-protection related considerations, both in a B2C context and in a B2B context. It applies not only to e-commerce service providers who are merchants/traders registered in the Saudi Commercial Register, but also to other e-commerce practitioners – both in the Kingdom and elsewhere – who are not registered in the local Commercial Register. Specifically, e-commerce practitioners who are located outside the Kingdom, but who offer goods and services to customers based in the Kingdom, are subject to the Law.
The Law provides clarity for e-commerce service providers, although further clarity should follow when the Regulations are issued. In the meantime, e-commerce operators making goods and services available to customers in the Kingdom should prepare to review their customer terms and conditions and policies to ensure that they fit within the expectations set out in the Law.
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Our diverse team of internationally qualified lawyers combines local law experience with international best practice, having also had experience of working in-house. Working alongside the firm’s Arabic-speaking lawyers and locally-qualified advocates, and with access to specialist lawyers from other practice areas, our TMT team provides clients with high quality, specialist legal services.
Nick O’Connell
Partner, Head of TMT – KSA
n.oconnell@tamimi.com
Bandar Al Hamidani
Partner, Corporate Commercial
b.alhamidani@tamimi.com
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