Q: I have an LLC technical company made in November 2017 and sold 50% share to one of my employees in 2019. I gave him all signature authority to handle our company and his salary will be paid as an employee. Later on, in September 2020 he made his own LLC technical license without informing me with a similar name and business to my company and used all resources asset of our common company without my knowledge and permission for his personal company and personal benefit. He is still my employee and getting paid his salary as well as a partner also and he is doing all work with our common resources for his personal company use and taking our clients due to the similar name of his own business. I want to know if any Legal action is possible for his misuse of common resources and obtaining a license without any NOC. Please advise. Your early response will be highly appreciated.

Q: One partner wants to leave the company. What are the options if the other partners are not willing to let him go? It's a tech company and the partner in question is the CTO, without him, the company will almost certainly fail. There are accumulated operational losses to the tune of AED 4 million. It's a Dubai Mainland LLC. The second partner is a Dubai company who acts as a collaborator in some of our projects. We recently found out that the GM and a couple of top managers in that company are building a clone of our most promising product. We can prove it too. Both the teams happened to bid for the same opportunity and the customer realized both are exactly the same product and informed us. Is this enough legal grounds to demand release from the partnership?

Q: Hi friends, Good day! One of our employees has given resignation. Soon after he resigned, we asked him to return the company assets given to him, however, while returning the mobile, he deleted all information and chat history. He also did factory settings on the mobile. Before the factory setting, he backed up all data on his personal phone. Please advise what remedy the company has against the employee for destroying company data & stealing customer information from the company mobile. Please advise!

An interview-format article covering the topic of shareholder disputes in the UAE and pre-emptive measure to be considered. This is from the legal podcast of lawyer Ludmila Yamalova, the founder of Lawgical with LYLAW.

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