Practice areas

The firm provides an integrated set of legal services to companies at every stage — from formation and operations to restructuring or liquidation — including:

• Formation, registration and licensing of companies of all types and legal forms.
• Drafting and review of memoranda and articles of association.
• Preparation of partners’ and shareholders’ agreements.
• Advice on the rights and obligations of partners and shareholders.
• Legal advice to boards of directors and executive management.
• Handling general-assembly and board proceedings.
• Corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions.
• Liquidation and winding-up of companies.
• Monitoring companies’ legal and regulatory obligations.
• Drafting and review of internal regulations and bylaws.
• Advice on corporate governance and compliance.
• Representing clients at general assemblies, board meetings and related meetings.

The firm specializes in drafting, reviewing, discussing and negotiating contracts and agreements of every kind, preparing the detailed legal studies behind them, and providing comments and recommendations that protect the client’s interests and reduce legal and commercial risk. These include, without limitation:

• Construction and works contracts.
• Commercial franchise agreements.
• Management and operation contracts.
• Finance-lease contracts.
• Investment contracts and agreements.
• Partnership and shareholder agreements.
• Commercial representation contracts.
• Commercial agency contracts.
• Distribution and supply contracts.
• Services contracts.
• Venture-capital and investment contracts.
• Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
• Domestic and international commercial agreements.
• Specialized contracts tailored to the nature of the activity and transaction.

The firm’s role is not limited to drafting: it also covers legal and commercial risk analysis, review of obligations and rights, negotiation of contractual terms, and proposing alternatives and solutions that best protect the client’s interests.

The firm provides specialized legal services in the real-estate sector, including:

• Property sale and purchase transactions.
• Review of title deeds, rights and real-estate encumbrances.
• Lease contracts and managing the legal relationship with tenants.
• Real-estate development and investment contracts.
• Construction contracts linked to real-estate projects.
• Agreements relating to real-estate projects and complexes.
• Advice to real-estate investors and developers.
• Legal management of properties.
• Collection of real-estate revenues, dues and entitlements.
• Handling real-estate disputes and legal proceedings.

The firm provides specialized legal services in the protection and management of intellectual-property rights, including:

• Registration of trade names and trademarks.
• Patent registration.
• Registration of industrial designs and models.
• Protection of copyright and literary and artistic rights.
• Protection of software and digital works.
• Advice on the exploitation, licensing and assignment of IP rights.
• Enforcing IP rights and pursuing infringement.
• Advice on licensing, use and commercial-exploitation agreements for IP rights.

The firm provides legal advice and services relating to employment relationships, including:

• Drafting and review of employment contracts.
• Drafting and review of workplace regulations and bylaws.
• Advice on the rights and obligations of employers and employees.
• Termination of employment, settlements and releases.
• Advice on dismissal and end of service.
• Handling labor disputes.
• Legal review of HR policies and procedures.
• Advice on compliance with the Labor Law and related regulations and instructions.

The firm provides legal advice on tax and customs legislation, including:

• Income tax.
• General sales tax.
• Corporate tax obligations and procedures.
• Review of the tax implications of commercial and investment transactions and contracts.
• Tax objections, disputes and proceedings.
• Customs cases and procedures.
• Legal advice on transactions with tax and customs implications.

The firm helps companies and institutions develop effective legal and regulatory frameworks through:

• Review of governance structures.
• Drafting internal regulations and policies.
• Establishing authority and responsibility frameworks.
• Review of administrative and organizational systems.
• Legal review of financial systems and procedures.
• Development of compliance policies.
• Advice to boards and executive management.
• Assessment of the legal and regulatory risks in the company’s business.
• Advice on compliance with relevant laws, regulations and instructions.

The firm provides specialist legal opinions and advice across the fields of law, including detailed legal studies and memoranda and the analysis of relevant laws, regulations and instructions.

Alongside the legal position, each opinion sets out an assessment of the risks, the available options and practical recommendations to help the client make the right decision.

The firm represents clients before the courts and judicial, quasi-judicial, administrative and competent bodies in all kinds of disputes, handles the related judicial, quasi-judicial and administrative proceedings, and builds the appropriate legal strategy for each dispute according to its nature, facts and the client’s interests.

The firm also provides specialist arbitration and dispute-resolution services, including drafting and reviewing arbitration agreements and clauses, advising on the choice of dispute-resolution method and the appropriate seat and rules, representing clients in domestic and international arbitration, preparing arbitration memorials, pleadings, defenses and applications, and following the constitution of the tribunal and the conduct of the proceedings through to the award.

It further offers mediation, negotiation and amicable-settlement services, working to reach effective legal and practical solutions that preserve clients’ interests and take account of the legal and commercial aspects of the disputed relationship.

The firm also advises and acts on the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, and challenge or objection proceedings within the limits permitted by law, and follows the related court proceedings, in accordance with the laws in force and the relevant international conventions.

The firm liaises with ministries, government departments and institutions and with official, semi-official and competent bodies, follows the legal and administrative transactions relating to clients, and works to complete them and their requirements in accordance with the laws, regulations and instructions in force. These services include, without limitation:

• Liaising with ministries, departments and institutions and following clients’ transactions.
• Filing applications and transactions and following them up with the competent authorities.
• Obtaining the required approvals, licenses, certificates and documents.
• Following legal and administrative transactions with official bodies.
• Advising on the legal and regulatory requirements for activities and projects.

Investment services

The firm provides specialist legal and advisory services to investors and companies, including:

• Formation and licensing of investment projects and companies.
• Following investment procedures with the Ministry of Investment and related bodies.
• Advice on investment incentives and benefits.
• Pursuing applications for investment exemptions, incentives and benefits.
• Following the approvals and licenses needed for investment projects.
• Advice on the optimal legal structure for the investment project.
• Review of contracts and agreements relating to investment projects.
• Advice on the legal and regulatory requirements for projects.

Industrial, free and development zones

The firm provides legal and advisory services for projects located in industrial, free and development zones, including:

• Studying the project’s specific legal and regulatory requirements.
• Following registration and licensing procedures.
• Obtaining the required approvals and licenses.
• Following transactions with the competent authorities and institutions.
• Advice on the incentives, exemptions and benefits available to projects.
• Review of investment, allocation, lease, development and operation contracts.
• Legal advice on carrying out activity within these zones.
• Following procedures for expanding, amending, relocating or restructuring projects.

Licenses and approvals

The firm also provides integrated legal services for government and sector licenses and approvals, including following professional, commercial and sector licenses and the approvals needed to carry out economic activities, and coordinating with the competent authorities to complete the related legal and administrative requirements and procedures.

The firm follows a structured approach to managing clients’ work and legal files and, according to the nature of the matter, prepares periodic, detailed legal reports covering:

• Work and steps completed.
• Transactions and steps in progress.
• Updates on the file.
• Key dates and legal steps.
• Potential legal risks.
• Recommendations and proposed actions.

The aim is to ensure transparency and continuous follow-up and to keep the client fully informed of the progress of their work and legal files.