Services

Business Development

The firm provides strategic business development services, supporting clients in identifying growth opportunities, structuring commercial ventures and expanding into new markets. It offers commercially driven legal guidance to facilitate partnerships, investments and sustainable business expansion.

Business Governance

The firm provides comprehensive business governance services advising clients on corporate structures, board and shareholder matters, regulatory compliance and internal policies. It supports organizations in establishing robust governance frameworks that promote transparency, accountability and sustainable decision making.

Business Solutions

The firm provides integrated business solutions, combining legal expertise with practical commercial insight to address complex challenges. It supports clients in optimizing operations, structuring efficient frameworks and implementing tailored strategies that drive sustainable growth and long term value.

Risk Management

The firm provides comprehensive risk management services, advising clients on identifying, assessing and mitigating legal and regulatory risks. It supports the development of proactive strategies and compliance frameworks designed to safeguard operations and ensure long term resilience.

SME Consulting

The firm provides dedicated consulting services for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), offering practical legal and strategic guidance to support growth, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance. It assists SMEs in building sustainable structures, managing risks and navigating the evolving business landscape with confidence.

Aviation

The firm provides specialized services in the drafting of private aviation agreements and encompassing detailed documentation of all aircraft components as well as their insurance and maintenance arrangements. It further collaborates with technical experts to ensure the provision of the necessary technical advice alongside comprehensive legal counsel.

Banking

The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services designed to support in house legal departments within banks, offering both advisory and practical assistance.

Capital Markets & Securities

The firm provides a full suite of services related to capital markets and securities, including listings, capital increases and reductions, and the legal structuring and issuance of sukuk and bonds. It also undertakes the drafting of all related agreements and the preparation of comprehensive legal opinions and advisory services.

Competition

The firm provides comprehensive legal services in the field of competition protection, encompassing both litigation and regulatory matters relating to antitrust and competitive practices.

Data Protection

The firm provides specialized legal services in the field of data protection ensuring the safeguarding of electronic information against unauthorized disclosure and affording legal protection against any breaches or intrusions into confidential data belonging to individuals, corporations and governments both domestically and internationally.

Energy & Mining

The firm provides specialized legal services in the energy and natural resources sector, encompassing matters related to extraction, processing and transformation of raw materials as well as their export and sale in global markets.

Entertainment

The firm provides comprehensive legal services, both locally and internationally, within the entertainment sector, including film, animation and live musical performances. It ensures the protection and enforcement of the rights of actors, producers and artists across all facets of the industry.

Franchising

The firm provides comprehensive legal services in relation to commercial agency and distribution agreements from the outset of negotiations through to the successful execution and implementation of the transaction.

Healthcare & Life Science

The firm provides comprehensive legal services within the healthcare sector, supported by the inclusion of a qualified medical professional within its legal team. This ensures the accurate drafting of both international and domestic pharmaceutical agreements as well as the handling of all related matters.

HORECA & F&B

The firm provides specialized legal services within the restaurants, food and beverage sector, covering all stages from organizational structuring to full legal implementation. This includes advising on relationships with customers and suppliers as well as ensuring compliance with retail regulations, municipal requirements and food authority standards.

Insurance

The firm provides specialized legal services within the insurance sector both locally and internationally, ensuring comprehensive legal protection in the event of any general or specific contingencies.

Intellectual Property

The firm provides specialized services in intellectual property including trademarks and patents to safeguard and enforce rights both domestically and internationally.

Mergers & Acquisitions

The firm provides a full spectrum of legal, advisory and financial services in connection with mergers and acquisitions, including the drafting of transactional agreements, the structuring and governance of board meetings and the delivery of strategic counsel throughout the process.

Oil & Gas

The firm provides a comprehensive advisory and contractual services both locally and internationally within the oil and gas sector an industry of a particularly sensitive nature that demands astute legal insight supported by continuously evolving technical expertise.

Outer Space

The firm provides specialized international legal services for the resolution of disputes arising in outer space and serving global companies operating within the space sector.

Real Estate & Construction

The firm provides comprehensive legal services both technical and procedural across all real estate and construction sectors from initial planning through to project completion, followed by contracting, recovery and related matters. The firm further draws upon a team of specialized experts within these sectors to ensure the delivery of fully integrated and informed legal support.

Retail

The firm provides legal services in the retail sector ensuring product compliance and safety and addressing supply chain and distribution risks within a sound and robust legal framework.

Shipping & Maritime

The firm provides legal services in the field of maritime transport, ensuring the smooth continuity of operations in the face of potential risks arising at sea.

Sports

The firm provides comprehensive legal services across the full spectrum of the sports sector, both domestically and internationally, serving clubs, institutions and athletes.

White Collar

The firm provides services for the domestic and international tracing of financial crimes through the engagement of a dedicated investigator, working in collaboration with a team of specialized experts to examine and track all documentation necessary to establish the existence or absence of a criminal offense.

Administrative Litigation

The firm handles administrative litigation with a strong understanding of the role of lawyers in overseeing and challenging decisions made by public authorities. Its team includes experienced legal professionals who have held senior administrative positions, giving the firm clear insight into both the visible and underlying aspects of cases, as well as their direct and indirect impact.

Arbitration

e The firm handles both local and international arbitration with strong expertise, supported by experienced legal professionals. Arbitration offers an effective way to resolve disputes, especially due to its speed and efficiency, making it well suited for commercial matters.

Civil Litigation

The firm handles all aspects of civil litigation, with a strong focus on upholding key legal principles, including that a contract is binding on the parties. It has solid experience in obligations and rules of evidence, recognizing that when fault causes damage and a clear link exists between them, liability determines the rights of the parties. The firm represents clients in all types of civil disputes, acting for both claimants and defendants.

Commercial Litigation

The firm handles commercial litigation with a strategic and practical approach supported by strong legal experience and a clear understanding of how businesses operate across different sectors. This includes matters related to trade, companies, financial markets and competition. Since its establishment, the firm has worked across these areas, handling a wide range of cases.

Criminal Litigation

The firm engages in criminal litigation on the basis of the spirit of the law, sound advocacy and robust defense strategies, recognizing that criminal adjudication is inherently guided by judicial conscience. The firm comprises a team of specialists in this field and since its inception, the firm has handled a wide spectrum of criminal cases across various categories of offenses, including forgery, bribery, money laundering, counterterrorism, and public funds crimes.

Labor Litigation

The firm handles labor disputes with a balanced and fair approach, ensuring that employment rights are properly protected under Kuwaiti Labor Law. It works to safeguard the interests of both employees and employers in line with legal and professional standards without favoring either party.

Mediation

The firm provides local and international mediation services between companies, governments, and individuals, helping resolve disputes amicably without the need for formal legal proceedings.

Private Client Service

The firm provides bespoke services to its clients and private clientele, addressing matters relating to personal legal affairs and individual cases with the utmost discretion and professionalism.

Banking & Finance

The firm maintains a strong banking and finance practice providing comprehensive advisory services across a wide range of financial transactions. Its services include transaction structuring, drafting of finance and security documentation, managing conditions precedent, issuing legal opinions and supporting negotiations. The firm advises both lenders and borrowers on conventional and Islamic financing arrangements, including bilateral, club and syndicated facilities. It also has experience in specialized financing transactions such as project finance, structured finance and asset backed financing.

Islamic Finance

The firm maintains a highly regarded Islamic finance practice delivering innovative, flexible and market leading solutions that are both efficient and cost effective, tailored to the specific needs of its clients and their underlying projects. The firm is well positioned to assist clients in achieving practical and forward thinking Islamic financial solutions, effectively navigating the complexities arising from diverse legal, tax and regulatory frameworks. Its expertise encompasses the structuring and advisory of a comprehensive range of Islamic finance instruments.

Taxation

The firm regularly advises both international and domestic clients on a wide range of taxation matters, including tax exposure, the application of double taxation treaties and eligibility for tax exemptions. It also provides strategic guidance on transactional structuring from a tax perspective. In addition, the firm offers a robust tax disputes practice representing clients in significant and complex taxation matters before the relevant authorities and courts in Kuwait. By combining advisory capabilities with strong litigation expertise, the firm delivers a fully integrated and comprehensive tax service to its clients.

Venture Capital

The firm advises founders on the establishment and growth of emerging companies across diverse sectors including technology, healthcare, education, e-commerce and consumer industries. It also represents venture capital firms and investors participating in early-stage and growth investments. Drawing on practical experience with both entrepreneurs and investors, the firm delivers commercially focused, tailored solutions to the unique challenges faced by fast growing businesses within evolving legal frameworks. Its services cover the full lifecycle of emerging companies including incorporations, financings, intellectual property, employee incentive schemes, licensing and mergers and acquisitions.

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