Short guides on each Gold Standard.

After reading, a reader can describe the instruments and registrations by which a share actually moves, and why naming a person is not one of them.

Succession is hard to raise because raising it is heard as asking someone to go. Agreeing the triggers moves the conversation off the person.

After reading this you will know where the two foundation regimes say the same thing and where their texts diverge, on reserved powers, charitable objects, intermediaries, guardians, what each register records and protection from foreign claims.

After reading, a reader can tell which succession question is answered by inheritance law and which is answered by the company's own documents.

After reading this you will understand what Federal Decree-Law No. 37 of 2022 permits for a registered family company, including the share buy-back, where its reach is limited by free zone and Emirate-level legislation, and which tools sit with the company rather than with a foundation.

After reading this you will understand the mechanisms by which a foundation holds ownership steady across a change of holder, and the questions that remain open once it is in place.

After reading, the reader will know which questions a holding company cannot answer, where UAE law places those answers, and what the default position is when a document is silent.

After reading, a reader can explain why documents drafted for death leave a gap when a shareholder or a director loses capacity instead.

After reading, a reader can identify the points at which an existing set of succession documents may have fallen out of step with one another and with current law.

After reading this you will understand which transfer restrictions apply to a UAE family company by default, and which operate only where a memorandum of association or a shareholders' agreement creates them.

After reading this you will be able to say what a family charter is under the law now in force in the UAE, what it may contain, and where its authority stops.

After reading, a reader can state what a will can reach in the UAE, what it cannot reach, and the conditions on which its reach depends.