Overview

This session is exclusive to Dubai Future Accelerators – Cohort 8 Participants.

As part of our goal at the Dubai Future Accelerators program, we aim to help the companies succeed by opening up opportunities for them to connect to our wider ecosystem to learn, grow and build their network during and after the program.

In this workshop, Eyad F. Latif and Omar B. Maayeh from Latham & Watkins will cover the following topics to help provide a better guidelines for the companies in Doing Business as an Emerging Tech Company in the UAE.

• Overview of setting up in the UAE as an early stage tech company
• Overview of fundraising in the UAE
• Top mistakes by entrepreneurs and investors in the UAE

Speakers : 

Eyad F. Latif, Counsel at Latham & Watkins

Eyad is Counsel and a member of the Corporate Department and Mergers & Acquisitions, Emerging Companies, and Venture Capital Practice Groups. Mr Latif’s practice focuses primarily on representing emerging growth companies (public and private) and their funding sources including venture capital and private equity firms. He has represented numerous international and Middle East-based emerging growth companies and venture capital and private equity firms in transactions across a wide range of industries, including AI, BioTech, E-commerce, EdTech, CleanTech, FinTech, and HealthTech.

Omar Maayeh, Senior Associate at Latham & Watkins

Omar is a member of the Corporate Department, Mergers & Acquisitions and Emerging Companies, and Venture Capital Practice Groups. Omar’s practice focuses primarily on representing emerging growth companies (public and private) and their funding sources including venture capital and private equity firms.

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This workshop is hosted in partnership with

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm with more than 3,000 lawyers in its offices located in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. The firm has internationally recognized practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas. Our success is grounded in our devotion to the collaborative process, which reaches across global offices and practices and draws upon our deep subject matter expertise, an abiding commitment to teamwork and a powerful tradition of creative lawyering.