What We Cover
Commercial
Our expertise in the field is derived from our understanding to the expectations of our clients and our long experience serving them. We do work with our clients on planning, structuring, negotiating, drafting and closing transactions from inception till conclusion.
We help clients in all types of import or sale of good transactions locally and across the borders, conventionally or electronically. But that’s not all, we also support them in setting up franchise and distribution channels, advise them on the appropriate collaterals and draw the right payment or negotiable instruments. We also assist clients in concluding transactions involving air crafts, vessels and other types of moveable assets.
Construction
We have served clients in all sectors of the construction industry, including infrastructure, energy, oil and gas and real estate. We assist project owners, contractors, engineers and lenders in negotiations and drafting the respective transaction documents, including the famous engineering, procurement and constructions contracts as well as other ancillary instruments they require to secure direct or project financing.
Corporate
A healthy business always relies on professional legal advice. We embark on this amazing journey with our clients from day one, supporting them with proper planning, business building all the way to making it a reality. We remain with them until they decide to float, merge, dispose or liquidate.
Our practice in this area offers support in setting up all types of companies (joint ventures) including:
- Complex corporate structure (onshore and offshore)
- Documenting balanced shareholders agreements
- Defining desired conditions for restricting transfer of shares
- Setting out a framework for the smooth operation of the board and the executive management
- Drawing corporate governance principles
- Setting up rules of authority matrix that fit client’s expectation
And that’s not all!
Further to the conventional corporate services, we offer professional support to large organizations and firms on complex transactions including:
- Preparing and negotiating agreements for acquisition or disposal transactions
- Carrying due diligence work
- Assisting in seeking regulatory approvals
- Preparing offer document for floating shares through public offering (IPO) and raising funds through corporate finance arrangements or other means.
Dispute Resolution
Our approach to dispute differs from other law firms. We have a track record of achieving out of court settlements. We aim to get disputes resolved at early stages by assisting our clients in establishing direct contact with their counterparts, identify the issue and the causes behind it, lay out the facts to establish full knowledge, and then thoroughly negotiate with the respective stakeholders with honest view and impartial approach, putting the interest of our clients first. In the course of such process, we strive to break the ice and overcome issues using many tactics we gained through our long experience in this area, and we have been successful in what we do.
Finance and Investment
Our experience in banking and finance is evident through the support we provide to our client in negotiating and concluding various types of bilateral or syndicate facilities with local and international banks to support clients’ requirements in terms of trade and working capital requirements, term loans, project finance or other structured products.
We assist our corporate and retail clients in preparing their respective internal legal documents as may be required by their lenders, organizing their respective collaterals, supporting the negotiation of financial or restructuring exiting debts. We provide professional legal advice on various banking and investment products to high-net-worth individual clients to assist them understand the legal risks involved in various investment products including funds, equities, bonds, and other financial instruments.
On the other part of the equitation, we offer support to our financial intuition clients on numerous matters including preparation of terms and conditions for their respective products and services, offering advices on legal issue related to law and practice, and providing independent local legal opinions in relation to finance transactions with their customers.
Insurance
Understanding how insurance works is always not easy even for a client with sophisticated knowledge. Using our experience in the industry, we help our clients to overcome this hurdle. We work closely with them in defining and comprehending what the policy covers or excludes. We assist in drawing an arm’s length relationship with the underwriters and support submitting the right claim when an insurance event occurs.
When we work with insurers, we strive to help understanding the local market including the laws of the land. We support in getting wording done that fit the purpose and mitigate the company’s exposure to various risks. We assist clients in setting up and getting the products’ regulatory approvals as and when needed.
Intellectual Property and Technology
We have been acting as trusted partner to our tech clients and supported various assignments related to intellectual property protection and licensing, trademark registration and other technology transfer transactions. We have also assisted fintech and payment tech clients in drawing agreements related to this industry as well as strategic partnership agreements with their respective customers.
Arbitration
Many parties are now increasingly favoring arbitration over litigation as an alternative dispute resolution. This move is driven by the speed of arbitration processes, the accessibility to technical and specialized resources, and the confidentiality of the entire proceedings. In this regard, we act and represent our clients before various arbitration panels in financial, real state and commercial disputes. We further take such necessary action to enforce arbitration awards before the competent local courts.
Litigation
Whenever a dispute or a matter fails to resolve through amicable reconciliation, we help our clients to protect their interests through the litigation proceeding. We work together with our client to define and draw a litigation strategy based on the nature of the case and the strength or weaknesses of their counterparties.
We represent clients in all types of lawsuits, civil, criminal, commercial, administrative including family disputes. We file lawsuits and represent our clients before courts holding ourself in a firm position behind the claim. Our objective would be, through the entire process, to either secure a favorable judgement or strike a settlement deal that would fall within the best interest of our clients.
We strive to proof our client’s claim using all possible evidence and valid arguments. We write our submissions with honest, persuasive and plain language, and we defend every single argument made by our counterpart. If required we support our client when presenting the case before technical experts and we use our experience to stir and persuade the matter to surface the facts so to guide the court in achieving impartial judgments. We litigate and cross examine witnesses using our litigation tactics to maneuver the challenges. Whenever we secure a judgment, we swiftly apply every possible action to effectively enforce such orders and recover our client’s rights using all possible asset tracing tools.
Standing behind the principle, a criminal is innocent till proven guilty, we zealously defend our convicted clients at all stages of criminal proceedings, irrespective whether a client is charged with felony or misdemeanor to achieve justice. On the opposite side, we act on behalf of injured victims from our clients, claiming on their behalf adequate damages to compensate for their suffering.
In a family dispute litigation, we consider the family as the essence of the community as we believe legislators are always keen to enact laws to secure the sustainability of protect its members. Accordingly, we strive to put our expertise towards achieving the best legal solution to keep this family bond existing, ensure its sustainability for the best interest of the young children.