Our Employment team advises businesses on protecting their most valuable assets: their people, confidential information and customer relationships. We act for employers across the UAE, including in the DIFC and ADGM, on the drafting, enforcement and defence of restrictive covenants, including non-compete, non-solicit, non-deal and non-poach obligations. We advise on confidentiality and the protection of trade secrets, from the structuring of robust contractual protections through to urgent injunctive relief where misuse is suspected. Our work covers strategic exits, team moves, and the recovery of confidential information, and we regularly support clients in pursuing and defending claims in the UAE courts and the DIFC Courts. Where disputes arise, we combine commercial judgement with deep knowledge of local enforceability issues to achieve practical and effective outcomes. We work closing with our disputes practice to consider whether any further civil and criminal rights of action, including cyber offences, have been committed and can be actioned before the Courts.