In a much anticipated development, the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) has recently issued Chairman of the Board of Director’s Resolution No. (22/RM) of 2023 regulating securitization and all parties to securitization transactions or operations in the UAE (the “Securitization Regulations”). The Securitization Regulations should have been issued a long time ago to support efforts to promote the economic development of the UAE especially since it is a tax efficient jurisdiction. It was largely…
In Brief One of the prominent forms of collateral for creditors nowadays is obtaining a transfer of a client’s accounts receivables. This form of collateral is often referred to as an ‘assignment of receivables’ (“Assignment”), under which the creditor (the “Assignee”) becomes permitted to collect from any pre-existing or future debtors that the client (the “Assignor”) has receivables. The Assignment, although never codified in law (unlike the Novation codified under Articles 1106 et seq. of…