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About Bizilance

A firm built to take complex matters to a decision

Since 2000 we have represented governments, trade bodies and multinationals in the proceedings that decide whether a business can trade, and in the frameworks that decide how it may hold data. Two disciplines, deliberately. Both led end to end by the one Director who sets the strategy.

Established
2000
Twenty-five years in continuous practice
Jurisdictions
16
First-hand engagement experience, four regions
Disciplines
Two
Trade remedy, and privacy & data protection
On every file
The Director
Named, from first assessment to implementation
The firm

Bizilance Legal Consultants Mitcham, EnglandAbu Dhabi, UAE

We blend expertise, integrity and innovation to deliver practical solutions that drive growth, protect interests and create lasting value

The firm was founded on a straightforward observation: in trade remedy and in data protection, the advice that matters is the advice that survives contact with a regulator. A memorandum that reads well and cannot be filed is not a deliverable. So the practice was built around the proceeding rather than around the opinion — around questionnaires, verification visits, injury margins, hearings, transfer maps and audit trails.

That shape is also why the practice is narrow. Anti-dumping work and privacy work look unrelated from outside; from inside they are the same discipline applied to different regimes — a factual record built to withstand an authority's scrutiny, assembled under a deadline that will not move. Two disciplines is what a firm can hold at that standard without handing the second one to someone junior.

We work for exporters and importers facing investigation, for producers seeking relief, for trade associations coordinating an industry response, and for businesses bringing a data estate into line with the UAE PDPL and the GDPR. The mandate ends when the matter is implemented — not when the advice is delivered.

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Track record

Twenty-five years, four turns

The practice did not arrive at two disciplines and sixteen jurisdictions by plan. Each step was a client taking us somewhere we had to learn properly before we could advise.

  1. 2000

    The practice opens

    Bizilance is established to advise on international trade and regulatory affairs. The first mandates are anti-dumping investigations — the work that still sets the firm's standard for how a factual record is built.

    Trade remedy

  2. 2008

    Across Asia and Europe

    Representation widens beyond a home authority to proceedings in Asia and Europe. Appearing before a dozen investigating authorities is what taught the practice that no two records are assembled the same way.

    Multi-jurisdictional

  3. 2018

    Privacy becomes a practice

    The GDPR takes effect and clients start asking the same question about data that they had been asking about goods: what will an authority accept? The privacy practice is opened as a discipline in its own right, not a service line.

    Privacy & data

  4. Today

    Two disciplines, sixteen jurisdictions

    The practice runs from Mitcham and Abu Dhabi, with first-hand engagement experience from Dubai to São Paulo to Seoul. The scope has been deliberately narrowed twice since — both times to protect the standard on what remains.

    Current

How we work

One team, from the first call to the last filing

There is no pitch team and no handover. The Director who assesses the matter is the one who signs the submission and the one who answers the phone when the authority comes back.

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  1. Step 01

    Assess

    We establish what is actually at stake — exposure, deadlines, the authority's practice — and tell you plainly whether the matter is worth running.

    You get a position, not a proposal

  2. Step 02

    Advise

    Strategy set against the regime that will decide it: what to argue, what to concede, what evidence has to exist before the argument can be made.

    A route with the trade-offs named

  3. Step 03

    Represent

    Questionnaires, submissions, verification and hearings — carried by the same people who built the strategy, before the authority that will rule on it.

    A record built to withstand scrutiny

  4. Step 04

    Implement

    A determination or a framework only counts once it is operating inside the business. We stay until it is, and we say what has to be reviewed and when.

    Something your team can run

Core values

The principles we refuse to compromise

Four commitments that decide how we take instructions, what we will tell you, and what we put our name to.

  • 01

    Precision

    Meticulous in determining what a client actually needs — and exact in how we deliver it.

    • Accuracy
    • Detail
    • Consistency

  • 02

    Integrity

    We serve clients with passion and honesty — saying what we think, not what is easiest to hear.

    • Honesty
    • Ethics
    • Transparency

  • 03

    Reliability

    We build and maintain trustworthy relationships that hold long after an engagement closes.

    • Trust
    • Dependability
    • Commitment

  • 04

    Expertise

    Deep subject knowledge and professional proficiency, earned in practice rather than claimed.

    • Knowledge
    • Skill
    • Proficiency
Our leadership

Led by one Director, not a committee

Every engagement is led personally by the same Director, with decades of first-hand industry experience. Your objectives define the scope — never the other way around.

Saifullah Khan, Director

Director

Saifullah Khan

Trade Remedies & International Trade

A leading authority on international trade remedies and regulatory affairs, advising governments, trade bodies and multinationals across Asia, Europe and the Middle East for over two decades.

Experience
25+ years in practice
Reach
12+ jurisdictions
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Global expertise

Sixteen jurisdictions, named

First-hand engagement experience — matters run before the authority, not referrals passed to a local firm.

Middle East

  • United Arab EmiratesHQ
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Türkiye

Europe

  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Switzerland

Americas

  • Brazil

The Americas practice is Brazil-based and trade-remedy only. We will say so rather than take a matter we cannot run first-hand.

Asia

  • Pakistan
  • India
  • China
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  • Thailand
  • Malaysia
  • Singapore
  • Indonesia

Not on the list? Most cross-border matters still touch a regime we run. Ask — and we will tell you honestly if it does not.

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We are guided by the highest standards of professional ethics, a client-focused approach, exceeding expectations and — above all — being solution providers.

Our mission

Grow with confidence.

Tell us what the matter is and we will tell you whether it is worth running. A senior team member replies within one business day.

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