Kluwer: Risen From the Dead? Whether the New UAE Agency Law Validates Legacy Arbitration Clauses
Published on October 14, 2025
When the UAE Federal Law No. 3 of 2022 ("New Agency Law") introduced the possibility of submitting commercial agency disputes to arbitration, it marked a small revolution. Historically, the laws governing commercial agency in the United Arab Emirates (โUAEโ) did not permit commercial agency related disputes to be arbitrated.