LexisNexis Middle East, in partnership with Pinsent Masons and the DIFC Academy, will host a course on the key points of data protection in employment law. This training session will look at data protection in the UAE and will guide employment practitioners in how they should be advising their clients who are employers.

Commercial contracts are an area where the pitfalls of getting data protection clauses wrong can have significant repercussions. LexisNexis Middle East, in partnership with the DIFC and DIFC Academy, will host a course on data protection in commercial contracts. During this training course, our subject specialists provide a practical guide to help ensure you are prepared to advise your clients on what steps to take, and what they should avoid.

A nonconventional trademark, also known as a nontraditional trademark, is any new type of trademark which does not belong to a pre-existing, conventional category of trade mark, and which is often difficult to register, but which may nevertheless fulfill the essential trademark function of uniquely identifying the commercial origin of products or services. LexisNexis, in partnership with CWB Legal and the DIFC Academy, will host a course on nonconventional trademarks. During this training session, we will look at examples of nonconventional trademarks in the UAE and provide practical guidance for registering these types of trademarks.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, which is already having and predicted to have a further significant impact on the UAE economy, we can expect to see several businesses being driven to build strategies which include financial recovery, restructuring and insolvency.

LexisNexis Middle East, in partnership with Baker & McKenzie and the DIFC Academy, will host a course on insolvency frameworks post COVID-19. During the training session, we will explore whether the current insolvency framework across the UAE can manage such demand, whilst delving into what the legal framework could possibly look like post pandemic.