ABOUT THIS PRACTICE
Our expertise in corporate, commercial, European Union, competition and distribution law are available to help French and foreign enterprises in their International business activities and foreign investments. Our International Business team also works on international dispute resolution, particularly involving arbitration. Pioneers of Business law in China, we have also developed a wide network of partner law firms in Europe, Asia and the Arab world.
- Selection and formation of appropriate structures (subsidiaries, branches, joint ventures, holding companies, fiduciaries, European companies, partnerships)
- International structuring of groups
- Recapitalization and de-consolidating financing
- Investment monitoring and restructuring (cross-border mergers, start-ups and winding-ups, disposals, asset contributions, distribution, leasing, asset and business reclassification)
- Cross-border mergers
- Equity Finance
- All forms of corporate sell-offs (LBO, MBO etc.)
- Shareholder agreements
- Arranging security
- Asset and liability guarantees.
- Partnerships and strategic alliances ,
- Distribution,
- Industrial subcontracting,
- Inter-company cooperation,
- Research and development agreements,
- Know-how and technology transfer,
- Licensing, trademark and patent assignment,
- Financing of projects.
- Foreign investment in Egypt and in Arab world,
- Arab investment abroad.
EU LAW
- Competition law,
- Consumer law,
- EU insolvency law,
- European company law,
- Financial markets law,
- Assistance before the Commission,
- Application of EU law in national courts,
- Proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
- Customs status of goods.
- Movement of goods: export/import (permanent and temporary)
- transit, warehousing, transformation
- Transfer pricing and profit transfers
- Payments to foreign residents
- Customs litigation
- Tax litigation.
- Public procurement
- Concession agreements
- BOT contracts
- Public private partnerships
- Private finance for public work.
INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- International negotiations,
- Settlement via conciliation and/or mediation,
- Ad hoc arbitration in Egypt and abroad,
- Institutional arbitration (including Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Zurich Chamber of Commerce, London Court of International Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce , CIETAC, ICSID, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Cairo Center of Arbitration).