Barakat Law Firm - Corporate Legal Experts

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Corporate lawyer Youssef Barakat

Expert Legal Solutions For Your Business

Unlock the potential of your business with tailored legal guidance. Our expertise in Intellectual Property, Corporate Law, and Litigation ensures your interests are safeguarded while you focus on growth. Experience seamless support in mergers and acquisitions, employment law, telecommunications, and financial services, allowing you to thrive in a competitive landscape.

Our Expertise

Real Estate, Urbanism & Construction

• We provide clients with expert legal advice concerning real estate and construction transactions, infrastructure, and energy. Our clients include funders, investors, lenders, agents, contractors, developers, and project managers.

  • For clients significant and complex transactions, we legally advise on all aspects from project inception, through design and procurement to completion.
  • Legal due diligence of real estate assets belonging to companies.
  • Tender documentation preparation, support of contractor selection process.
  • We assist and advise on drafting appropriate agreements in relation to purchase, sale, acquisition and registration of lands, leasing or sale of units, property development, facility management, turnkey projects, design-build and plant contracts, construction management.
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Banking & Insurance

• We counsel conventional and Islamic banks, insurance companies, and financial intermediaries and their operating subsidiaries, affiliates, and holding companies, on steps for incorporation, day-to-day operations, and major local and international activities and transactions.

  • Developing internal controls and corporate governance procedures to negotiating memoranda of understanding.
  • We frequently advise boards of directors and executive management in the exercise of their powers and performance of their duties to their institutions, their creditors, and shareholders.
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Telecommunication

• We provide commercial and regulatory advice on IT, e-commerce, telecoms and media.

  • We advise telecommunications operators on interconnection agreements, license applications, employment, lease for the headquarters, supply agreements, national roaming,.
  • lease for installation of cell-phone equipment.
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Employment

• We advise on labour and employment issues based on our extensive knowledge of local markets.
• We assist in drafting employment and consultancy agreements, internships and training agreements, non-competition and confidentiality clauses, employment handbook and policies for companies.

  • For clients significant and complex transactions, we legally advise on all aspects from project inception, through design and procurement to completion.
  • Legal due diligence of real estate assets belonging to companies.
  • Tender documentation preparation, support of contractor selection process.
  • We assist and advise on drafting appropriate agreements in relation to purchase, sale, acquisition and registration of lands, leasing or sale of units, property development, facility management, turnkey projects, design-build and plant contracts, construction management.
  • We counsel employers and employees in all legal areas concerning the formation, maintenance and termination of employment, unfair dismissal, work permits, social security issues, employment of foreign workers and experts, and litigations.
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Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

• Maître Youssef Barakat is well known in the judiciary community of being well experienced in litigation in all commercial and civil matters, including ADR.

  • We offer our clients a truly comprehensive and thorough legal service in matters in relation to commercial, banking, employment litigation; energy; insurance/reinsurance; real estate; intellectual property; and cases related to public and administrative domain.
  • Our services include advising clients on all stages of pre-litigation work, including negotiations, mediation, managing complex litigation, and providing post-litigation advice.
  • Our expertise in the field of arbitration includes representing clients in arbitral proceedings in internal and international arbitration. We have extensive experience in conducting arbitrations from drafting witness statements, legal memoranda, notices, submissions, summaries of facts, minutes for meetings and conference calls, translating documents, preparing chronologies, etc.
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Corporate, Merger & Acquisition

• We provide exceptional tailored corporate advice on matters in connection with the incorporation, restructuring, joint ventures, corporate recovery and insolvency; negotiations of shareholders agreements; preparation and drafting of complex commercial contracts; compliance with corporate legislation; investment law relating to foreign investments in Syria.

  • We have extensive professional experience in dealing in Mergers & Acquisitions. We understand the internal and external pressures that our clients face throughout a transaction and the industry-specific issues critical to the success of a deal.
  • We guide our clients through every stage of a deal from due-diligence and structuring to negotiation and preparation of deal documents, non-disclosure agreements (NDA), sales and purchase agreement (SPA), framework agreement, to post-transaction transition and post-merger integration.
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Intellectual Property

• advise in all areas in relation to intellectual property law including trademarks, design, patent, copyright, domain names, and franchising

  • We have extensive experience in drafting and filing patents and provisional patent applications, handling different type of innovations, from industrial to technology platforms and mobile apps, etc.
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Lawyer Youssef Ibrahim Barakat