Selected matter summaries showing the type of cross-border legal work Esquare Legal and its partners undertake. Clients are named only where that is permitted; other matters are anonymised. Past matters do not guarantee the same result in another engagement.
Fasset, a digital-asset platform building out of Dubai, needed its legal and compliance function set up from the ground up, and a licence from the newly established Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority.
As Fasset's Head of Legal & Compliance, Safi Ghauri led the initial legal and regulatory set-up through to one of the earliest licences issued by VARA, and the legal groundwork for the company's Series A.
RWA Inc., a European real-world-asset platform, required a structure that addressed securities-law and secondary-market issues across several jurisdictions.
As RWA Inc.'s General Counsel, Safi Ghauri designed and coordinated the legal architecture across three jurisdictions, supporting launch planning, token documentation and secondary-market readiness.
A payments business transitioning from the UAE to the UK needed a facility agreement that accounted for connected regulatory issues across its operating footprint.
An engineering group needed to align governance, tax workstreams and operating responsibilities across entities in the Middle East and Africa.
A Pakistani buy-now-pay-later provider required a regulatory pathway for an emerging product category with limited specific guidance.
Chinese investors considering a major Pakistan urban-development project needed governance and risk analysis spanning both markets.
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