Executive-level advisory for UAE businesses navigating regulatory obligations, sanctions, financial crime risk, governance, operational resilience and international expansion.
A bank asks for enhanced documentation. A counterparty becomes difficult to verify. A supplier operates through a higher-risk jurisdiction. A regulator asks to see the controls behind a policy. A growing company discovers that nobody actually owns compliance.
These are business problems as much as compliance problems. Blackthorne & Chase helps management teams identify the exposure, make decisions, build practical controls and keep oversight running after the consultant has left.
Built for founders, boards, family-owned businesses, trading companies, professional firms and international companies operating in the UAE.
Risk assessments, KYC/CDD/EDD frameworks, sanctions and PEP screening controls, policy architecture, training, remediation and ongoing compliance oversight.
A practical view of the risks sitting behind customers, suppliers, ownership structures, transactions and cross-border commercial relationships.
Help management identify critical processes, dependencies and single points of failure, then build practical continuity and recovery arrangements.
Decision structures, board reporting, internal controls and governance systems for businesses growing, changing ownership or navigating complex commercial decisions.
Senior compliance oversight without the cost of building a full internal function. Scope is tailored to the business and its regulatory requirements.
Discuss a retainer →Readiness, governance, compliance and commercial coordination for Canadian businesses entering the UAE and UAE businesses exploring Canada. Legal work is referred to appropriately licensed counsel.
Discuss market entry →Fixed-fee assessments create clarity first. Ongoing oversight is available when the business needs it.
Risk map, priority exposures and 30/60/90-day action plan.
Ownership, jurisdiction, sanctions and commercial-risk assessment.
Critical processes, dependencies, continuity gaps and remediation plan.
Monthly compliance, risk oversight and executive reporting.
Fees are indicative starting points. Final scope and pricing depend on the client's business, sector, regulatory status and complexity.
Baqa Rashdi is a Canadian-qualified lawyer called to the Ontario Bar in 2010, with more than 15 years of professional experience across corporate, real estate, criminal and family law. He founded Blackthorne & Chase to bring a practical, executive-level approach to compliance, risk and corporate advisory in the UAE.
We understand the business, its objectives, its obligations and the problem that brought you to us.
We identify material exposures and separate urgent issues from background noise.
We develop the framework, controls, reporting and implementation roadmap the business can actually use.
Where retained, we monitor, report and help management keep the system current.
We are particularly suited to businesses that have outgrown informal risk management but are not ready to build a large internal compliance or risk department.
Blackthorne & Chase is a Dubai mainland management consultancy providing corporate risk, compliance, sanctions, governance, business resilience and Canada–UAE market-entry advisory.
No. Blackthorne & Chase operates as a UAE management consultancy and does not provide UAE legal advice or legal representation. Where UAE legal advice is required, clients are referred to appropriately licensed UAE counsel.
It is an outsourced senior compliance advisory function for businesses that need structured oversight without building a full internal department. Scope is tailored to the client's business and regulatory requirements; where a regulator requires a formally approved or registered officer, the appropriate requirements are addressed separately.
Yes. We provide Canada–UAE market-entry and corporate advisory, including readiness, governance, compliance and coordination with specialist providers where regulated or legal services are required.
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