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Cases · Built world & environment · Real estate, land & construction

Resolve a dispute with a developer, tenant or co-owner

We have a property dispute abroad. How do we resolve it?

WONE Global brings in local property counsel to negotiate or litigate on your behalf.

Countries in the typical case United Kingdom · United Arab Emirates

The situation

What is happening

A property dispute arises in another country.

What is at stake

Property disputes abroad are hard to manage from a distance, and delay favours the other side.

Who faces this

  • Private clients and families
  • Mid-sized companies

A scenario

Buyer of an off-plan apartmentPrivate client or family · from United Kingdom · in United Arab Emirates

The delivery of her Dubai apartment is long delayed.

Where it ends A remedy for the delay.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Developer delay abroad”“Tenant not paying rent overseas”“A landlord is attempting to terminate a commercial lease”“A tenant is withholding rent following a service dispute”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global brings in local property counsel to negotiate or litigate on your behalf.

Usually led by Disputes and arbitration, with Contracts and commercial law and Licences, permits and regulators.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Week 1Contract reviewed.
  2. Week 2Notice.
  3. Weeks 3-8Negotiation or claim.
  4. ThenResolution.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Rights under the contract and local law
  2. 02Negotiation, regulator complaint or court
  3. 03Protecting payments held in escrow

Outcomes

What you receive

  • A legal position
  • Complaint or claim filed
  • Settlement or judgment

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Services

The services involved

One area of expertise usually leads; the others move with it. WONE Global keeps them connected across every country involved.

  1. Usually leadsDisputes and arbitration5 markets with a named lead→
  2. Often involvedContracts and commercial law12 markets with a named lead→
  3. Often involvedLicences, permits and regulators1 market with a named lead→

Who handles it

Disputes and arbitration, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. United Arab Emiratesin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. United Kingdomin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. Argentina WONE Global Partner Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari · Lawyer Brief this Partner →
  4. Kenya WONE Global Partner James Ngochi Ngugi · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  5. Poland WONE Global Partner Andrzej Zacharzewski · Partner Brief this Partner →
  6. Saudi Arabia WONE Global Partner Abdulrahim bin Saleh Al-Zahrani · Founding Partner & General Manager Brief this Partner →
  7. Zambia WONE Global Partner Reagan Blankfein Gates · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  8. India On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  9. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  10. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →

Dr. Silvia Patricia MaccariPalermo · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari

Lawyer · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Palermo

She is a lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She took his first steps in the nation's judiciary, in the National Labor Court, where he developed a rapid caree…

Andrzej ZacharzewskiKraków · Poland

WONE Global Capability Partner · Poland

Andrzej Zacharzewski

Complete profile

Partner · Zacharzewski & Partners Law Office · Kraków

Attorney at Law. Co-founder of the law firm. Provides litigation services to banks and advises corporate clients in international trade. Supervises the work of the Litigation Department and the International Desk. Chair…

Reagan Blankfein GatesLusaka · Zambia

WONE Global Capability Partner · Zambia

Reagan Blankfein Gates

Managing Partner · Reagan Blankfein Gates Legal Practitioners · Lusaka

Reagan started his career in practice at Mainza & Company where he had interned while pursuing a bar qualification at the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) in 2008. Upon being called to the bar, Reaga…

Dr. Esteban Lucio MaccariBuenos Aires · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Esteban Lucio Maccari

Managing Director · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Buenos Aires

He is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Spanish Law. He completed postgraduate studies in Strategic Business Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Glocoll at…

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UNIONE™ · Before You Arbitrate™

If this becomes a dispute, test it first.

Test the claim or the defence, the evidence, the exposure and the settlement options before committing to formal proceedings.

For this moment

UNIONE™ is the UNBOUNDED™ Global Ecosystem's institution for cross-border dispute prevention, resolution, arbitration and enforcement. Like WONE Global, it is part of the ecosystem, and the two work as one. Links open theunione.org. Visit UNIONE™ · Disputes with WONE Global and UNIONE™

UNBOUNDED™ · Global Business Circuit™

Work through UAE ↔ United Kingdom with the leaders doing it.

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The Global Business Circuit™

One corridor, 60 minutes online, 12 senior business leaders. The leaders' own questions set the agenda; market and professional perspectives join only where the questions call for them.

WONE Global is one of the six institutions of the UNBOUNDED™ Global Ecosystem. Links open unboundedglobal.com. WONE Global in the ecosystem