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Legacy: Putting the Family First

This comprehensive guide is designed to help you navigate the intricate landscape of family business and private wealth in the Middle East, where family businesses constitute approximately 60% of GDP and employ 80% of the workforce in the GCC, offering unparalleled opportunities for wealth creation and preservation.

Packed with insights, strategies, and expert advice from our talented lawyers, Legacy provides tailored solutions to the unique challenges of asset protection, succession planning, and dispute resolution in this dynamic region.Read the publication and equip yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to thrive, whether you’re a seasoned investor, a family business owner, part of the next generation, or a newcomer exploring opportunities in the region.

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Strategy &
Transformation

Our team have the capabilities and experience to deliver integrated strategy & transformation services at the intersection of law, business and innovation. The team is compromised of seasoned IP, tech transfer, commercial lawyers, patent attorneys, scientists, technical experts, and strategy consultants.

Strategy & <br> Transformation

Business communities both local and international are very serious about their transformation commitments to ensure that they will be competitive and global players in the UAE. They are seizing opportunities to create platforms and venues for growth and are enthusiastically embracing organisational changes, all while leveraging available resources and support.

Essam Al Tamimi Chairman

Essam Al Tamimi

This is a unique and revolutionary practice. Our vision stems from our strong understanding of the innovation ecosystem and the ingredients required for progress and change to enhance competitiveness. We are uniquely positioned at the intersection of law, business, and technology to support and shape the regions’ transformation. With our leadership position and strong network, we build consortiums across the innovation value chain and collaborate with external partners both in private and public sectors, economists, futurists and strategy and business consultants to deliver end-to-end strategy & transformation services. Our all-encompassing capabilities ensures a fully seamless, integrated, and unique approach in delivering high-value tangible outcomes.

Ahmad Saleh Partner, Head of Innovation, Patents and Industrial Property (3IP)

Ahmad Saleh

We deliver strategy & transformation solutions while engaging with stakeholders across the innovation and R&D ecosystem.

Business

Enabling business infrastructure

Strategy

Defining future direction

Transformation

Transforming visions to reality

Legal

Enabling legal infrastructure

Innovation & R&D Across Sectors
[Healthcare & Life Sciences, ICT, Education, Financial, Transport & Logistics, Real Estate, Public Sector, Emerging Technologies, Defense & Security, AI]

How do we ensure
you’re future-ready?

Define your future direction by...

Assessing the current state and gaps Current state assessment to understand your aspirations, value proposition, existing capabilities, strengths, challenges, gaps and risks.

Identifying opportunities in the untapped market Systematic horizon scanning to identify emerging trends, opportunities, and disruptions.

Designing the strategy Mission, vision and strategic pillars that capitalise on your strengths, address the gaps while meeting market demands and needs.

Developing a plan to realise your vision Roadmaps that define activities, timelines and resources across stakeholders.

Transforming your
vision reality by

Implementing your strategy and model designsGenerating implementation plans, identifying and mobilising ecosystem stakeholders and resources, and guiding implementation actions;

Implementing your strategy and model designs

Managing end to end projects to meet your objectives and achieve outcomesOversee implementation, facilitate communication among stakeholders and adapt strategies to ensure successful outcomes.

Managing end to end projects to meet your objectives and achieve outcomes

Facilitating connections across the ecosystemProvide a platform to network and connect you with the innovation ecosystem across the GCC and internationally (academia, investors, incubators, accelerators etc.).

Facilitating connections across the ecosystem

Empowering changeBy minimising resistance to change, capability building and raising awareness.

Empowering change

Enabling business and
legal infrastructure by

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Strategy &
transformation services

Across public and private sectors

Services
How we can support?

Strategy

(approach supported by market insights to drive growth and log term value)

Strategy

(approach supported by market insights to drive growth and log term value)

Market Assessment conduct market research to identify trends, competitors, opportunities and areas with potential high market opportunities

Ecosystem
Organisation

Strategy

(approach supported by market insights to drive growth and log term value)

Strategy Planning develop comprehensive strategies that supports ambition and enables competitiveness

Strategy

(approach supported by market insights to drive growth and log term value)

Implementation Planning develop operational plans to realise ambitions and support transformation

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Project Management oversee, navigate and implement a project in a specific timeframe and within an agreed budget

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Change Management collaborate and build relationships to transition or transform an organisations desired goals or objectives

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Collaboration & Partnerships facilitate partnerships and collaborations with other companies and research institutions to further innovations

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Training & Capability Building develop comprehensive and legally sound guidelines that govern the conduct of individuals or entities within an organisation or across the ecosystem within a jurisdiction

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Policy develop comprehensive and legally sound guidelines that govern the conduct of individuals or entities within an organisation or across the ecosystem within a jurisdiction

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Legislative Frameworks establish legal frameworks that defines the structure of legal systems and govern the relationships across the ecosystem (individuals, organisations, and the state)

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Jurisdictional Study and System Design assess jurisdictions in other territories and designing new, updated or improved laws and regulations e.g.,designing a new freezone

Transformation

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Legal Implementation define the roadmap and approach to implement policies, processes, and governance of new, updated or improved legislations

Legal

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Legal

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Policy develop comprehensive and legally sound guidelines that govern the conduct of individuals or entities within an organization or across the ecosystem within a jurisdiction

Legal

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Legislative Frameworks establish legal frameworks that defines the structure of legal systems and govern the relationships across the ecosystem (individuals, organisations, and the state)

Legal

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Jurisdictional Study and System Design assess jurisdictions in other territories and designing new, updated or improved laws and regulations e.g.,designing a new freezone

Legal

(significant & fundamental change to achieve growth and long-term value)

Legal Implementation define the roadmap and approach to implement policies, processes, and governance of new, updated or improved legislations

Key Contact

Essam Al Tamimi
Essam Al Tamimi Chairman
Ahmad Saleh
Ahmad Saleh Partner, Head of Innovation, Patents and Industrial Property (3IP)
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