Most bad UAE contracts are not signed by careless people. They are signed by busy people who read a twenty page document once, understood most of it, and assumed the rest was standard. The clauses that cost money are rarely hidden. They are the ones that look ordinary: a governing law and forum that puts a dispute in another country, an automatic renewal with a notice period that has already passed by the time you notice it, a payment term that starts on acceptance rather than on delivery, an indemnity with no cap. We read the document and tell you in plain words what it commits you to, what it does not cover that it should, and which two or three points are worth pushing back on, separated from the ones that are not worth the relationship.
