Holding intellectual property using ADGM SPVs
Intellectual property now eclipses plant, equipment and even inventory as the most valuable line on a young company’s balance sheet. Whether the asset is software code, an algorithm that predicts rainfall or a brand recognised across emerging markets, protecting it and monetising it are strategic imperatives. Abu Dhabi Global Market, the region’s only jurisdiction that […]
DIFC tech startup license
Dubai’s ambitions to become the Silicon Valley of the Middle East are no longer a dream. They are happening in real time inside the Dubai International Financial Centre. From a handful of financial institutions in 2004, the district has grown into a city-within-a-city that now hosts more than 700 technology firms operating under a DIFC […]