TRADE AND BUSINESS LAW

Najm Law Firm provides all legal services required to conduct business. These services range from incorporating all types of companies, to keeping up with their daily operations and assisting them in expanding into foreign countries, mainly in the Arab World. Hence, our firm has built a prevalent expertise and developed interactive relationships with a number of prominent law firms in the region.

Our services include:

• Counseling the clients regarding the type of company in line with their activities, whether legally or in terms of taxation.
• Launching all types of business entities in a short time (mainly limited liability companies, joint stock companies, holding and offshore companies).
• Founding financial institutions and getting all required licenses.
• Incorporating companies in various countries while collaborating with foreign law firms.
• Establishing branches and representative offices.
• Preparing agreements of all kinds (such as commercial agencies, franchising, distribution agreements etc.).
• Performing mergers and acquisitions and investment operations.
• Setting up touristic institutions and providing them with all mandatory licenses.
• Providing consulting services for major legal issues being dealt with by companies.

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT AND CONTRACTING

In the recent years, Lebanon and the Arab World have witnessed significant breakthroughs in the scope of real estate and construction projects. Our firm successfully coped with those developments, covering their various fields, and provided legal services and consultancies to a wide number of real estate and contracting companies.

Our services include:

• Sale and purchase agreements.
• Land development and real property registration processes.
• Contracting agreements for large-scale projects (mainly under FIDIC books).
• Tenders and bids.
• Legal opinions related to construction contracts.
• Rental, maintenance and management agreements.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Intellectual property's importance is growing in both economic and trade sectors. We early understood the importance of IP rights and our team devoted its time and efforts to gain expertise in this area granting our clients IP rights protection, with regard to all procedures and mainly the following:

• Investigating on the precedency of registration of trade names, trademarks and intellectual property rights.
• Registering patents, industrial designs, trademarks and copyrights at the Department of Intellectual Property Protection at the Ministry of Economy and Trade in Lebanon.
• Collaborating with dedicated companies abroad to register IP rights worldwide.
• Drafting agreements enclosing assignment of IP rights.
• Follow-up of all legal disputes relating to IP rights protection and requiring immediate measures to cease infringements.

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Private International Law Attorneys are certainly a valuable asset to our firm. Their specialization enables us to provide legal opinions and consulting services related to conflict of laws, drafting agreements between parties of different nationalities, as well as defending our clients' interests in any dispute of international nature.

LITIGATION

Our firm has a wide reputation in the field of litigation, and was entrusted with major criminal, civil and commercial cases before all Lebanese courts. This expertise grew as one of the Firm's key pillars, since we are always aiming to defend our clients' interests, mainly in lawsuits related to:

• Personal status disputes.
• Financial claims.
• Commercial claims.
• Civil liability cases.
• Banking claims.
• Bankruptcy cases.
• Real estate cases.
• Labor claims.
• Criminal cases, mainly related to financial crimes.
• Enforcement of judgments, and acknowledgment of rights before the executive services.

MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION

Contracting parties, especially in the fields of international trade, came to realize that mediation and / or arbitration is the best approach to resolve disputes, saving time and money and preventing all time waste and complications usually associated with lawsuits brought before ordinary national courts. Our team is skilled in the strategy of alternative disputes resolution and is pleased to repeatedly succeed in assisting clients to amicably settle through negotiations or mediation, or in irremediable cases, through arbitration. Within that context, our firm has actually handled a myriad of arbitration cases, mostly in FIDIC contracts, as well as disputes related to commercial companies and partners' relationships.

Our services include:

• Drafting med/arb agreements.
• Representing clients throughout the mediation process.
• Acting as mediator.
• Preparing amicable settlement agreements.
• Submitting request of arbitration under the supervision of the most prominent Lebanese and international arbitration institutions.
• Defending our clients' interests before arbitral tribunal formed under the supervision of either Lebanese or international arbitration institutions of any type whatsoever.
• Implementing arbitral awards.

MISCELLANEOUS

In addition to all the aforementioned expertise and areas, our firm provides legal services in other fields for which our lawyers' intervention has been required. Najm Law Firm has built a reliable name for covering various areas of practice, in all legal cases efficiently handled by its team who is dedicated to promoting practical and effective solutions.