Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Abu Dhabi, Law No. 5, 1976) in English

Law No. 5 of 1976 establishes the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the emirate sovereign wealth fund and one of the largest institutional investors in the world. The law is ADIA constitutive document: it creates the Authority, attaches it to the government of Abu Dhabi, and frames its mandate to invest the emirate surplus revenues.

Counterparties and fund managers dealing with ADIA request this text for legal capacity and status diligence — including questions of state ownership relevant to sovereign immunity analysis — and it is a primary source for researchers on sovereign wealth funds, for whom the 1976 law documents one of the earliest formal SWF structures in the Gulf.