The UAE legal-risk landscape, in numbers
Aggregate statistics from the official UAE court and regulatory records Counterscope indexes — court cases, judgments, regulatory actions and notices across DIFC, ADGM, DFSA, the mainland and the free zones. Counts only; no company is named.
These are corpus-wide totals, updated live. They reflect what Counterscope has indexed from the official sources on our coverage page — not the entire UAE economy.
Data last updated: 4 Jun 2026
Legal events by type
Commercial lawsuit | Count: 997 |
Court appeal | Count: 341 |
Free-zone notification | Count: 137 |
Labour dispute | Count: 96 |
Judicial notice | Count: 85 |
Regulatory enforcement | Count: 67 |
Corporate notification | Count: 54 |
Civil lawsuit | Count: 45 |
Real-estate litigation | Count: 45 |
Liquidation | Count: 29 |
Bankruptcy | Count: 4 |
Bounced cheque | Count: 2 |
Criminal (commercial) | Count: 2 |
Risk-grade distribution
Among entities with at least one legal event on record, how Counterscope grades them (A = safest, E = highest risk). Entities with no adverse events on record are not graded and are excluded here.
A | Count: 1,184 |
B | Count: 120,845 |
C | Count: 65 |
D | Count: 16 |
E | Count: 26 |
Legal events by year
By the year the event occurred, where a date is on record.
2010 | Count: 33 |
2011 | Count: 17 |
2012 | Count: 19 |
2013 | Count: 23 |
2014 | Count: 83 |
2015 | Count: 79 |
2016 | Count: 55 |
2017 | Count: 33 |
2018 | Count: 55 |
2019 | Count: 35 |
2020 | Count: 66 |
2021 | Count: 185 |
2022 | Count: 146 |
2023 | Count: 102 |
2024 | Count: 155 |
2025 | Count: 153 |
2026 | Count: 197 |
See exactly which sources these come from, and what “no adverse events” means.