Arti Sangar

Senior Associate Attorney

Former in-house counsel Financial Partners Bank (FPB), Dubai, executing transactions in private equity matters, debt financing, corporate formation and restructuring, M&A, and joint ventures, and aiding formation of investment companies in Jersey, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and other venues.

Previously associated with Hugh Fraser International, Dubai, handling business disputes and transactions, and with Emirates Advocates, Dubai, providing a wide range of legal counsel in litigation, transactions, debt recovery and employment disputes.

Holds law degrees from universities in Australia and India as well as Masters of Defense Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Representative Cases

• Oversaw large-scale property projects in Arab Emirates, China and Europe including Symphony Tower and Olympia Tower projects in Dubai and Clearwater Bay Project, Hong Kong.
• Negotiated and prepared a facility agreement worth US $10 million between a  UK-based financial company and FPB in return for the acquisition of 10 percent shareholding in Fp Bank.
• Worked in conjunction with Clyde & Co. Dubai office to advise on the restructuring of FP Bank's group and their subsidiaries operating in several countries, including the UAE, Vanuatu, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, china, Thailand and Bali.
• Managed and provided consultancy to the General Manager of FPB's Bali office with respect to a civil case involving a claim amount of US $788,000 that was initiated by one of FPB's client.
• Provided legal advice to a Switzerland-based hospital with respect to the procedures involved in the incorporation of an LLC in the UAE.
• Acted for pretigious Scotland-based university Heriot Watt in setting up presence in Dubai knowledge City, UAE.
• Managed a civil case and defended a leading Spanish company trading in water treatment spas and other equipment in a civil suit of AED 2 million, arising out of commercial defraud, illegal diversion of business, breach of fiduciary duty and misrepresentation of accounts committed by their former General Manager.
• Represented and defended a joint venture between a UAE crane manufacturing company and a South African engineering and contracting company, in a civil suit initiated by the plaintiff to recover losses resulting from breach of a service contract.
• Represented an employee in a claim against a US tobacco company, seeking compensation for arbitrary dismissal, breach if fiduciary duties and miscalculation of end-of-service entitlements.
• Provided legal advice in various areas of labor and employment aspects, including end-of-service entitlements, wrongful dismissal, confidentiality and non-competition issues, computer monitoring, trade secrets and sexual harassment at workplace.

Publications

• Invest in Dubai Real Estate Confidently, published on 26 April 2005, in Gulf News;
• Employees must be notified of monitoring activities, published on 25 January 2005, in Gulf News;
• Accidents at Work, published on 22 February 2005, in Gulf News; and 
• Confidentiality and Non-Competition Clauses in Employment Contracts, published on 29 March 2005 in Gulf News.