Drafting & Documentation

Shallon CSP advises on, reviews and drafts legal documents for individuals, families, family offices, trustees, foundations and corporate entities. We work across private client and corporate matters, calibrating every document to the chosen governing law and, where relevant, to the specific requirements of the DIFC and ADGM. Our work integrates with our wills, trusts, cross-border structuring and dispute-resolution services where needed.

What we do

Our advice, review and drafting practice has three pillars, available on both an individual and a corporate basis.

Legal advice

We advise individuals, families and businesses on structuring, governance, succession, contractual and regulatory questions, providing clear, decision-focused advice, legal opinions and memoranda. We set out the position, the options, the risks and a recommendation, rather than abstract commentary, so clients can act with confidence.

Document review

We review existing contracts, constitutional documents, trust deeds, shareholders' agreements and foundation charters, identifying legal and commercial risk, missing or defective clauses and points that need renegotiation before signature. When we propose an amendment, we explain the legal or commercial risk it addresses and the consequence of leaving the wording unchanged, so the value is in the reasoning, not only the mark-up. We review both private client and corporate documents.

Drafting

We draft bespoke instruments and foundational documents, execution-ready and tailored to the governing law, including:

• Foundation deeds and charters: constitutive documents for foundations, including objects, governance, protector and council roles, and amendment procedures.
• Trust deeds: bespoke trust instruments for family, commercial and asset-protection structures, including settlor instructions, trustee powers, distribution mechanisms and reserved powers.
• Corporate constitutional documents: memoranda and articles of association, LLC operating agreements, and amendments.
• Shareholder and investor agreements: shareholders' agreements and protocols, subscription agreements and subscription letters for cross-border entities.
• Commercial contracts: services, supply, agency, distribution and consultancy agreements, with appropriate boilerplate, risk allocation and dispute-resolution clauses.
• Employment and HR documents: employment contracts and offer letters, restrictive covenant and confidentiality provisions, settlement and termination agreements, secondment and consultancy arrangements, and staff handbooks and policies, including under the DIFC Employment Law and ADGM Employment Regulations.
• Policies and governance manuals: board charters, delegation of authority matrices, conflicts of interest policies and meeting procedures, tailored for the DIFC, the ADGM and other jurisdictions we serve.
• Bespoke instruments: escrow, agency and authority arrangements, service-level provisions for legal and fiduciary services, and bespoke contractual mechanisms supporting cross-border structures.

Who we serve

We act for individuals, families, family offices, trustees and foundation councils on the private client side, and for companies, joint ventures, holding structures, funds and operating businesses on the corporate side. The same advice, review and drafting service is available whether the matter is personal or commercial.

Jurisdictions and regulatory context

Our base is the UAE and we work across Europe and international markets. We draft for and tailor documents to the DIFC and ADGM regimes where their stylistic and substantive expectations differ from onshore UAE and other common law jurisdictions. Documents may be governed by the law a client chooses, and we identify the local execution formalities and advise on local registration where required. Shallon CSP is a trading name of Shallon Legal FZ LLC.

How we engage

1. Initial enquiry and scope. You contact us with a short description of the document or question. We confirm the purpose, the proposed governing law, the parties and any time sensitivity, on a short call where useful.
2. Engagement letter. We send an engagement letter setting out the scope, deliverables, timelines and billing approach, on an hourly or fixed-fee basis for discrete pieces of work.
3. Fact-finding and data pack. You provide the essential materials (see "What to send us"). We may use a questionnaire for standard matters.
4. First draft, advice note or review. We produce the initial deliverable and highlight the policy decisions and optional clauses that materially affect governance, tax or regulatory position.
5. Review and redlines. You return comments; for complex instruments we hold a structured review meeting to agree the key points.
6. Finalisation. We prepare execution-ready versions and advise on signature, witnessing and execution formalities, with an execution checklist.
7. Post-execution. Where required, we assist with registration, filing, translation or notarisation and provide a clean executed pack.

Deliverables

• Execution-ready documents in Word and PDF.
• For advice, a clear written advice note or legal opinion setting out position, options, risk and recommendation.
• For reviews, a marked-up document with amendment commentary explaining the risk each change addresses.
• A short drafting note summarising the key choices and any ongoing actions, such as filings or registrations.
• Where helpful, a one-page summary of governance effects and decision points for non-legal stakeholders.

What to send us

• Full details of the parties or entity (legal names, registration numbers where applicable, registered addresses).
• A clear statement of purpose (what the document or advice is intended to achieve).
• A high-level list of the relevant assets to be governed or transferred.
• The preferred governing law and jurisdiction for disputes, if known.
• Any existing constitutional documents, trust deeds or agreements to be incorporated, amended or superseded.

How this works with our other services

For contentious drafting we coordinate with our dispute-resolution team on dispute-resolution clauses, arbitration wording and enforcement strategy. For governance manuals and policies we coordinate with compliance specialists so that regulator-facing obligations are met. Our drafting also integrates with our wills, trusts and cross-border structuring work.

Confidentiality

We treat all draft materials and instructions as confidential and can sign mutual non-disclosure agreements before receiving sensitive facts. For cross-border matters, allow additional time for translation, notarisation, apostilles and local registry filings.

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Shallon CSP advises on, reviews and drafts legal documents for individuals, families, family offices, trustees, foundations and corporate entities, on both a private client and a corporate basis, from its base in Fujairah, UAE, working across Europe and international markets. Its advice covers structuring, governance, succession, contractual and regulatory questions, with opinions and memoranda; its review service identifies legal and commercial risk and proposes amendments with the reasons and consequences explained; and its drafting covers foundation deeds and charters, trust deeds, corporate constitutional documents, shareholders' and investor agreements, commercial contracts, employment contracts and settlement and termination agreements, governance policies and bespoke instruments, tailored to the chosen governing law and to DIFC and ADGM requirements. Shallon CSP is a trading name of Shallon Legal FZ LLC.

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Contact

Shallon CSP Office 2002, 20th Floor, Creative Tower, PO Box 4422, Fujairah, UAE Phone: +971 58 518 2116 Email: info@shalloncsp.com Website: <https://shalloncsp.com>