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Areas of Law Practice

Below we offer the most important legal services offered by our office through an integrated team with expertise and competence in various disciplines in both Arabic and English languages.

Aviation & Maritime

Loay Jassim Al-Kharafi Law Firm provides professional legal services in Aviation and Maritime in respect to all relevant legal procedures and in-rem rights, in addition to, drafting and reviewing Agreements, as well as, settling all sorts of disputes via amicable solutions and judicial proceedings. 

First: Aviation

Aviation stakeholders governed by various legal bonds that fallen under domestic and international legal instruments, in-rem rights on aircrafts. (Ex: contracts of transportation, liability of the transporter, and the passenger, along with insurance aspects etc.) Our firm is keen in following up all amendments of the Law no. 30 of the year 1960 and all circulars of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation-Kuwait adding to all relevant laws. 

Second: Maritime

Maritime is to be considered as a cornerstone of economy for most coastal countries, located near rivers, gulfs, seas or oceans, activating exchange of trade, leading to the existence of legal impacts, accompanied with loading and unloading of cargo operations from harbors to customized piers. Our Firm tenders all required legal assistance for registering of shipping corporates and settling of disputes arising with any second party in all of its areas of business, and on all stages and levels. 

Intellectual Property Management

In respect to International Treaties concerned with Intellectual property, the Hague statute enables the registration of industrial designs in different countries with minimum amounts of costs and procedures. The Hague statute replaces several recordings with only one that enable the registration of one hundred industrial designs, via one application only, which facilitates the management of registered designs, constraining changes or amendments by using only one procedure

Loay Jassim Al-Kharafi Law Firm provides its clients with legal protection and management for their intellectual property rights in various geographical areas. The international treaties concerned with protecting patents postpones major costs related to the protection of international patent as to provide legal base for registering Intellectual property rights used by inventors, authors, commercial enterprises as well as others.

Cyber Technology

Loay Jassim Al-Kharafi Law Firm Tenders full support to victims subjected to any sort of Internet including social media violations.

In accordance with Kuwaiti Law no. 63 of year 2015 and all relevant laws regarding Cyber Crimes and relevant international procedures, our legal services covers all of practical areas related to cyber technology delivered by our experienced legal Team that are based on their international academic and professional fractional exposure, in addition to regional and international collaboration with various stakeholders.

Industrial Legal Services

Loay Jassim Al-kharafi Law Firm provides unique legal services particularly related to the registration, renewing procedures of licenses concerned with undertaking industrial businesses, along with other procedures fulfilled by other competent bodies. Moreover our legal services covers all legal aspects in connection with aforementioned business sectors such as  Gas & Oil, Iron & Steel, Mining & Metals, Energy, Pharmaceuticals industry, and Consuming Products, etc.

Our provided legal services in respect to industrial sector also include settling of disputes that may arise due to carrying of such Business between persons and entities, either were governmental, non-governmental, chambers, International organizations, etc.

Construction & Installation

Loay Jassim Al-Kharafi law Firm’s clients are the most prestigious working construction companies, and we truly pleased to have the biggest companies working in the field of construction in Kuwait and with a scope of working covering huge range around the world.

The value of some projects implemented by our clients in the state of Kuwait has exceeded the limit of a Billion KD per project. Handling various and different legal aspects allowed us to accumulate sufficient professional legal expertise to deliver to all of our clients the required legal protection that allows business flow.

Commercial Legal Services

The Law Firm provides all legal services relevant to commercial procedures, such as drafting of corporate foundation contracts and the attendance of ordinary and non-ordinary meetings of general assemblies.

In respect to national commerce, we demonstrate our expertise to our selective clients by legalizing their business in Kuwait in through the issuance of licenses and following up all relevant procedures, adding to any settling of raised disputes and interpreting governing domestic trade laws in favor of our clients.

In the context of international commerce, Firm provides available special legal assistance programs to facilitate working within the framework of Import and Export, commercial agencies, franchises, etc. that target raising of the awareness of laws, regulations and procedures that govern such transactions and commercial businesses in general. Moreover, the Law Firm bestows all economic foundations working in this field with all sufficient and required legal protection. 

Corporates

Loay Jassim Al-Kharafi Law Firm tenders all required legal services, in accordance with the Kuwaiti law no. 1 of year 2016 and instructions of CMA and Stock Exchange, concerned with corporates.  We offer Investors and entrepreneurs professional legal services in Corporate Foundation, Merging & Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Reconciliation of Corporates, Structuring and Employment, Annual Meeting, etc.

According to the executive bylaws of the Kuwaiti corporates law, our Law Firm provides up-to-date legal support primary to obligatory compliance process of corporates involved in investments on domestic stage, also the Law Firm provides due diligence in respect to merging process for some corporates, bearing their financial status, as to avoid possible financial or legal predicaments in the future. The law firm ascertains that the process of reconciliation is been fulfilled with compliance with resolution no. 32 of year 2016, concerned with reconciliation of investment corporates. We observes all steps relevant to structuring of corporates and employment procedures, drafting and reviewing of employment contracts, insurances, pensions, and remunerations.

TAXATIONS

Loay Jassim Al-Kharafi Law Firm is very keen to follow up all laws, regulations, and forms in connection to taxes. Our legal team observes domestic legislations and parliamentary discussions in case any enacted law may been issued such as the values added tax law, moreover our legal experience with banking sector acquired us with competence in reviewing Common reporting System  (CRS) and ensuring compliance of our selective clients with such forms.  We also acquired experience in connection to the USA Tax Law for foreign accounts (FATCA) that stipulates the declaration to USA Tax Department (IRS).

CMA

Pursuant to law No. 7 of 2010 regarding the Establishment of the Capital Markets Authority and Regulating Securities Activities and its accompanied resolutions and regulations, Loay Jassim Al-Kharafi Law Firm shall be providing all required legal services that ensures delivery of legal protection that enhances interests of our client. In respect to following up of procedures for registering of companies, also we provide periodic reports that maintains feedback update alterations that may be issued from CMA. Our Legal Team study factors and variables driving the domestic and the global economic process. In This context, we extract pointers that indicate the consecutive approach and scenarios, for amends that may occur on the legislation scene.

Execution of Court Rulings

The legal administrative officers of our Legal Team characterized by their fractional experience with the legal procedures been adopted by the Kuwaiti Judicial System is degrees and competences. The legal team carefully selected after been subjected to professional trials, according to the policy of our Firm. The legal representative officer’s follow-up the court’s declarations, decisions, dates of appeals, and petitions, along with following up relevant administrative procedures.

The Law Firm is pleased to represent its clients before all investigation authorities, prosecution or different stages of courts, police stations, Labor Department of Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.

Mediation and Amicable Settlements

At certain stage of any raised dispute, the law firm may seeks mediation, negotiation and amicable purses settlement of disputes. The importance of utilizing of such tools, apart from seeking litigation that is litigation might take longer interval of time. The Firm includes within its legal team skilled negotiators that have been selected with due diligence according to professional standard, whom are subjected to transparent examinations, according to the professional standards concerned with the selection of such competent negotiators.  

Address

Kharafi Tower – Distrect 6 – Block 4
Hamad Al-Saqer St. – Qibla, Kuwait
Po.Box 64700 Shuwaik B – 70458 Kuwait

Contact Info

Email : law@kharafilaw.com
Tel.: 22323001 /2/3/4
Fax : 22323005

Working Hours

From 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Everyday Except Friday
Saturday From 8:00 am to 2:00 pm