Arbitration

As cross border transactions and globalization continue to become more common, corporations are turning to arbitration to solve their international disputes as it offers timely and flexible solutions.

Our Firm have experience providing arbitration services across the full range of industries and for a wide variety of clients, including those privately, publicly or state owned.

Litigation

Resorting to courts is not our aim in every lawsuit. We first seek to control the dispute and resolve issues rapidly and through the most appropriate means.

However, when the matter requires resorting to litigation, we invoke our vast practical experience before courts of all instances. Also offering legal counseling and advice on disputes.

We are well-equipped to handle the most complex commercial matters. We never lose sight of the needs of our clients, regardless of whether they are large corporations or smaller enterprises. Our expertise and specialization covers all types of lawsuits, including privatization cases, banking cases, construction cases, tax cases, labour cases … etc.

Drafting legal and Reviewing Contracts

We successfully drafted varies legal contacts to our clients with national and international parts i.e. supply agreement, lease agreement, transfer of technology agreement, trademark license agreements, agency agreements, Distribution agreement, services agreement, settlement agreement, employment contract, etc.
Drafting and reviewing legal and economic contracts, whether between private or public legal persons, both international and local, and contracts with multinational parties, and coordination between the application of foreign laws and familiarity with the application of arbitration laws regarding them and their tax implications

Corporate and Commercial Law

The Firm advises clients on virtually all aspects of business and commercial life, including guide and assist clients in drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements, advise on regulatory issues, or advise on all aspects of a proposed commercial transaction.

We provide a complete range of services including:

• Company formation.
• Shareholder agreements.
• Issues of securities and other forms of funding.
• Corporate Governance.
• Dividends.
• Mergers and acquisitions.
• Buy-backs, redemptions and other reductions of share capital.
• Agents contracts
• Manufacturing for others
• Franchise contracts
• Commercial Agency Contracts
• Distribution Contracts
• domestic and international
• Consulting Contracts
• General and specialized contracting contracts
• Sponsorship Contracts
• technology service provider contracts
• Drafting legal terms and rules of use for mobile applications
• Issuance of operating licenses for hotels, hospitals, shops, commercial offices and industrial licenses
• Import and export operations from abroad and their letters of guarantee
• Liquefaction of letters of guarantee by the judiciary
• Licenses for the registration of industrial and medical products, cosmetics, medicines and food

Corporate and commercial law constitutes the largest area of the East & West law firm  practice.  The Firm advises clients on virtually all aspects of business and commercial life, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts, incorporating businesses ranging from branches to local companies to joint ventures and undertaking corporate mergers and acquisitions, franchising, leasing, intellectual property rights and licensing services for its clients. It also advises on other related fields of Egyptian law for corporate clients, like taxation or conducting business in free zones.

Also, provide advice and day-to-day support to companies in all sectors since we thoroughly believe that excellent legal guidance is half the solution of commercial disputes.

we  have experience in Debt collection  and acceleration of litigation procedures with the largest economic entities in the Middle East, such as Omar Effendi, whose capital exceeds billions of pounds, and Kraft Foods, which is a multinational company and one of the largest economic entities in the Middle East

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

The Firm advises various operators and value added service providers in the field of telecommunications on all legal aspects.    

    Banking and finance

The Firm advises on all aspects of banking and financial laws and acts on the full range of complex financial transactions that is supported by its strong corporate, capital markets and litigation experts. It acts on high profile financial transactions, including incorporation of banks and other financial institutions; regulatory compliance; syndicated facility agreements and related securities and guarantees; structured project finance; trade finance; securitization; securities lending; derivatives; Islamic finance; and acquisition and leveraged financings.

The Firm’s practical solutions are geared for the optimization of tax and fees exposure, and assisting clients in understanding their options, managing their risks and making the best-informed decisions for their entities.

Employment and Labour Law& Social insurance

Our law firm are experienced in all phases of the employer-employee relationship. We provide advice and legal services to help corporations of all types and sizes in all employee related matters including the following:

• Employment agreements (including non-compete clauses).
• Employment termination.
• Review of employment policies and internal manuals.
• Attainment of licensing for non-Egyptian employees.

We also advise our clients on the issues affecting the transfer of employees and pensions, as well as representing the client before the disciplinary boards or the courts.

We have a team specialized in providing full legal support to solve all your problems related to social insurance.

 * Our expertise in the field of social insurance: Our legal team includes a number of lawyers with extensive experience in the field of labor law and social insurance. This team is led by a lawyer who was general inspector of insurance offices in Sharkia Governorate.

 We are also fully aware of the laws and regulations regulating the relationship between companies, factories and the Social Insurance Authority.

* Preventing problems: Don’t wait until you have a legal problem. We help you avoid problems by providing periodic legal consultations and training employees on the correct procedures.

Comprehensive solutions to problems: We offer you a variety of legal solutions to the various problems you may face, such as:

• Registration of new companies with the Authority.
• Calculate insurance contributions accurately.
• Providing legal advice on amendments to the Social Insurance Law.
• Representing you in disputes with the Authority.
• Providing the necessary legal defenses to protect your company’s interests.

Intellectual Property (IP)

We provide consultations to intellectual property inquiries and represent our clients before the courts in Egypt in cases concerning patent, industrial designs, copyright and trademark infringements.

In addition to the above, we offer the following services:

• Trademarks, Patents, Designs, and Copyrights Registration.
• Patent anti-infringement.
• Patent drafting.
• Search of published Trademarks.
• IP renewals.
• Wipo services

Real Estate

We assist our clients with their real estate requirements including purchase, sale and lease of land, buildings, offices or residences. This entailed the forensic search for the original title documentation, identifying the recovery process, successfully litigating the ownership and finalizing the formal registration of the confirmed deeds of ownership with the competent Real Estate Authorities. Also ensures that the properties of our clients are officially registered with the competent real estate office.

In addition, we helps clients who seek to obtain lease financing for their properties with banks, by negotiating, drafting and finalizing the relevant agreements.

Taxation

In order to help our clients achieve tax efficiency. We provide our clients legal tax advice and represent them before Tax authority in the various aspects of tax matters including, tax planning, tax risk prevention, tax optimization, corporate tax consulting, taxation of foreign operations and income, real estate investments and other transactions.

The Firm advises clients on tax exemption privileges in certain areas and free zones. In addition, advises multinational, as well as local companies on all tax issues and represents all sorts of corporations through all levels of disputes on all tax-related matters before courts.

Insurance Recovery

We have extensive experience providing insurance recovery strategies for matters concerning property loss and professional liability protection, and securities litigation. Additionally, we can assist with all levels of dispute resolution ranging from negotiation, to representation in litigation or arbitration within Egypt.

Criminal Law

We provide the effective solutions to any criminal law problem. As our Firm is dedicated and committed, we can assure you efficient service under pressure at any time. Regardless of how serious or how potentially unpopular the charges you may be facing appear, you can rest assured that our Firm will fearlessly represent you throughout this daunting process.