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Practice · 03
Dispute prevention

The dispute that never happened.

Counsel before the dispute — drafting, structuring, and stress-testing the documents the relationship will have to bear.

The firm advises corporates and founders on the structures and instruments that absorb commercial friction before it surfaces as a dispute. The work is documentary, procedural, and quiet — measured against what didn't have to be litigated.

نطاق العمل
  • Shareholder, joint-venture and partnership agreements
  • M&A: earn-outs, indemnities, escrow mechanics
  • Distribution, licensing, and supply agreements — dispute-resolution clauses calibrated to the deal
  • Compliance audits ahead of inflection points (round, exit, change of control)
  • Pre-litigation posture review
  • A partnership or shareholder relationship is deteriorating and positions are hardening.
  • A senior executive is leaving — with relationships, knowledge, or claims in play.
  • A counterparty signals breach before it happens; you can still choose the ground.
  • A board faces a decision that will be attacked later, whatever it decides.
  • A crisis broke — and the next 72 hours of letters will shape the next two years.

The product is a memorandum, not a hearing. Each instrument is read against its likely failure mode — what happens if a party refuses to perform, if the market shifts, if the counterparty is acquired.

04 · ما الذي تحصلون عليه

The exit without the war

Structured separations — of partners, shareholders, and executives — negotiated on a map of the legal positions, so the resolution holds because both sides understand the alternative.

Paper that protects you later

Minutes, notices, and letters written as if a judge will read them — because one day a judge may. Quiet drafting now replaces loud litigation later.

Board-level direction in crisis

When a matter threatens value or continuity, the firm directs the legal track at board level: one strategy, one voice, decisions documented.

Speed where it matters

Prevention work runs in days and weeks, not court years — the cheapest dispute is the one that never files.

05 · قضايا تمثيلية

Minority-shareholder dispute — structured exit

A contentious oppression claim resolved without litigation through a negotiated, structured settlement.

Municipal taxation settlement

A US$10m dispute with intertwined regulatory and contractual claims, closed by negotiated settlement.

Commercial lease standoff

Fundamental breach, unpaid rent and abandonment — resolved on documented terms without a full trial.

Pre-litigation board mandates

Recurring engagements directing legal posture through partner exits and contested board decisions.

توصف القضايا بإيجاز وبصورة مجهولة الهوية حفاظاً على سرية الموكلين.

When should I involve a disputes lawyer — before or after it breaks?

Before, ideally at the first hardening of positions. The early letters and minutes decide what a later court sees; once they are written wrong, no advocacy fully repairs them.

Will involving a lawyer escalate things?

Done properly, the opposite: a precise, quiet legal posture usually de-escalates, because the other side prices the alternative correctly. Loud lawyers escalate; prepared ones resolve.

What does a structured exit look like?

A mapped sequence — valuation basis, information rights, non-compete scope, payment mechanics, releases — negotiated as one package and documented so it ends the matter rather than postponing it.

Can you manage the dispute while we keep doing business with the other side?

Yes — that is most of the work. The legal track runs in parallel and stays separable from the commercial relationship until you decide otherwise.

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طلب استشارة
Dispute prevention — Aun & Co.