Jennifer Leader Green

The 2025 Healthcare Odyssey

Welcome 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.

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Biography

Jennifer is an England and Wales qualified lawyer within the Employment & Incentives practice. She advises clients on contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including recruitment, employee on-boarding (together with immigration considerations), contract drafting, company policies, performance management, investigations, disciplinary proceedings, mutual separation, termination, restrictive covenants, Emiratization and discrimination. She has extensive experience in providing HR advisory services both onshore, across the UAE’s free zones (including DIFC and ADGM), and the wider Gulf region.

Prior to moving to UAE, Jennifer was a criminal defence specialist, representing clients charged with serious crimes across the courts of England and Wales.

Thought Leadership

Delivering seminars and training sessions on the new UAE Labour Law (due to come into effect on 2 February 2022).

Recent Experience

Supporting a multinational software company with employment and immigration aspects of its UAE incorporation, including drafting employment contracts and advising in respect of on-boarding requirements.
Assisting a large UAE company with a complex internal investigation into allegations of corruption.
Assisting a company in the transport industry in a multinational merger, resulting in the company’s Dubai-based entity becoming the first Middle East $1.5 billion unicorn to list on Nasdaq US.
Supporting a multinational communications company in a contentious matter involving cross-border claims of sexual harassment.
Advising an overseas government agency on the vaccination of the workforce in UAE in light of the COVID19 pandemic.
Advising an international bank in relation to the termination of UAE national employees.