Our Services
Francis Law Firm is one of the
leading legal firms in Egypt and the Arab world.
Francis Law Firm is one of the leading legal firms in Egypt and the Arab world.
Contracts
- Preparing, drafting and revising contracts, agreements and memoranda of understanding of all kinds, whether in the international or local field;
- Such as;
- Joint venture agreements
- Shareholder support agreements
- Loan contracts
- Supply contracts
- Share mortgage contracts
- Set-aside account contracts
- Share sale contracts
Real Estate
Francis Law Firm and International Legal Consultations has a top-level real estate management. It includes well-experienced lawyers in addition to a team of specialists who deal with all real estate registration offices in most governorates throughout Egypt. The office served many of its clients in everything related to their real estate, such as buying, selling, and renting lands and buildings. We also provide clients with a service to recover previously seized real estate properties and properties that were fraudulently purchased by other parties. Finalizing the official registration process for confirmed ownership provisions with the relevant real estate authorities. The company ensures that its clients’ properties are officially registered with the competent real estate office
International Legal Services
We have contractual and twinning relationships with many specialized law firms regionally and internationally through our alliances and cooperative relationships to provide legal services abroad.
Maritime Law
- Preventing pollution caused by ships.
- Training and certification standards.
- Regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea and international maritime traffic.
- Loading of maritime search and rescue lines.
- Maritime search and rescue.
- Suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of maritime navigation.
- Suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of fixed installations located on the continental shelf.
- Dealing with various types of maritime disputes including:
- Arrest of vessels, cargo, personal injury and death, product liability, salvage claims, breach of contract, mortgage or lien, environmental damage insurance coverage, marine collisions, marine insurance disputes. Consultations on marine matters include: Marine finance and master service agreements
Litigation
- Francis Law Firm and International Legal Consultations has one of the most efficient litigation departments in Egypt, having handled many cases before all types and levels of courts. This has given it a good reputation for dealing with commercial and other cases.
- In addition to providing legal advice on local and international judicial disputes, the firm represents its clients in all aspects and stages of litigation.
- The team conducts a comprehensive legal study on the client’s legal status and identifies both the strengths and weaknesses of his legal position, in addition to representing clients in litigation before the State Council, Economic Courts, Criminal Courts, the Court of Cassation, and the Supreme Constitutional Court
Establishing companies
- Providing establishing companies services for all company’s types such as financial companies, partnerships, unincorporated business enterprises, foreign companies branches, representative offices, liaison offices, and scientific offices.
- Registering companies in (Commercial Registry, Industrial Registry, Capital Market Authority, Stock Exchange, Commercial Agents, Exporters and Importers Registry, Financial Leasing and Private Sector Contractors, Egyptian Federation of Construction and Building Contractors).
- Amending the articles of association of companies and adjusting their status, preparing contracts and side agreements, certificates and deeds of shares and bonds, general assemblies of shareholders, boards of directors, shareholders’ records, ownership books and concessions.
- Obtaining the necessary licenses for projects and companies and assisting in resolving their problems with governmental and non-governmental entities.
- Registering companies in the Misr Clearing Company with the central registry and custodian and carrying out all necessary procedures for this, including coding shareholders and custodian contracts.
- Providing legal support for all corporate activities. Dissolution, liquidation, liability and bankruptcy law claims.
- Contracts, commercial franchises, agencies and licenses.
- Antitrust laws, competition protection law, anti-dumping, countervailing and preventive measures.
- Issuing shares and registering them on the stock exchange
Joint cooperation agreements
- In cooperation with the FLFA Academy, the office cooperates with all legal institutions and international and Arab law firms to provide a summary of its legal expertise in the systems in force in all countries, especially Arab ones, for example.
- Saudi system
- Kuwaiti system
- Qatari system
- Libyan system
- UAE system
- European Union systems
- United States of America systems
- We work under the umbrella of joint cooperation agreements, respond to all cases, prepare regulations, petitions and memoranda, study potential legal cases and disputes, and manage risks with continuous legal support around the clock, in addition to preparing pleadings, defenses, strengths and shortcomings in each case, and providing comprehensive research and study of all aspects of the dispute.
Provide legal support to international and Arab law firms
- In light of the joint cooperation to write memoranda and draft legal action regulations in accordance with the systems, regulations and laws of the countries in which these offices operate, and the cooperation is organized through the Comparative (FLFA ) FRANCIS LAW FIRM ACADMY
Foreign Investment
- Providing legal advice to foreign investors regarding the regulations followed in Egypt.
- Preparing foreign investment and participation contracts, regardless of the applicable law.
- Registering international companies, issuing the necessary licenses, and representing them in all matters before official and unofficial bodies in Egypt.
Pursuit and manage cases
- We conduct an integrated legal study on the client’s legal position, identifying the strengths and weaknesses. We represent clients in various cases before the courts of the State Council, the economic courts, and the criminal, cassation, and supreme constitutional courts.
- Since its establishment, the institution has been working to provide innovative legal solutions that help clients achieve their goals in the shortest possible time, with the least effort and at the lowest cost.
Partnership contracts between the public sector and the private sector
- Guarantee Contract
- Build-Operate-Transfer Contract
- Build-Operate-Transfer Contract
- Build-Own-Operate-Transfer Contract
- Build-Own-Operate Contract
- Build/Operate/Renewal of Concession
- Build/Lease/Finance
- Build/Lease/Transfer
- Build/Transfer/Operate
- Design/Build/Finance/Operate
- Design/Build/Management/Finance
- Upgrade/Own/Operate/Transfer
- Renewal/Own/Operate
Intellectual Property Rights
- Registration of patents, trademarks and all intellectual property works.
- Registration of industrial models and designs.
- Geographical indications and undisclosed information.
- Electronic signature.
Investment services for foreign companies
- The institution provides research and investigation services for non-Egyptian investors who wish to invest in Egypt. Clarifying the advantages, disadvantages and any obstacles that prevent the investor from starting his business in addition to clarifying the strengths of investment within Egypt and the incentives and guarantees for this investment, such as industrial and commercial investment and free zones, and to provide the services required by the nature of the investor’s activity
Providing legal services to non-Egyptian law firms wishing to work in Egypt
- The institution, represented by its scientific academy, provides all solutions to judicial disputes in which Egyptian courts and bodies have jurisdiction
Corporate Governance and Management
By corporate governance I mean the rules, systems and procedures that achieve the best protection and balance between the interests of the company’s managers, shareholders and other stakeholders related to it
- Labor law related services.
- Legal work.
- Services related to social insurance law.
- Tax services
Special consulting services
- Subject to terms and conditions to be agreed upon
Legal Services
- Our office will provide legal support to your company and respond to all inquiries and legal consultations that arise from some circumstances during the company’s work, it is concerned with interpreting or applying the law or decisions, so that the management’s work is consistent with the regulations and laws governing its work.
- Expressing an opinion on all possible risks to which the company may be exposed.
- Preparing all contracts and agreements between the company and all parties it deals with, as well as contracts with all government and private companies to ensure their legal validity and the legal effect that accrues to the company from any obligation it undertakes towards others.
- Holding the company’s ordinary and extraordinary general assemblies and any amendments to the legal form or commercial register of the company.
Labor Law Related Services
- Prepare employment contracts for the new employees and renewal contracts for current employees and obtaining employee signatures.
- Create files for new employees in accordance with the provisions of the Labor Law.
- Prepare and sending the employment form for new employees to the labor office.
- Review the cleaning files of current employees to identify missing work papers.
- Prepare a report of all employee data.
- Prepare a quarterly report for workers who need to renew contracts.
- Follow up on employee vacations, calculate the remaining balance and send a report to the client (monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually as per the client’s request)
- Prepare the required employee forms in accordance with the Egyptian Labor Law (such as a vacation sheet, a penalty sheet, salary progression, etc.).
- Conduct procedures of resigned employees.
- Review current applications of labor law requirements within the company and providing appropriate recommendations.
- Documenting regulations in the competent authorities according to the requirements of the Egyptian Labor Law.
- Provide the client with all Egyptian Labor Law updates and amendments.
- Deal with all Labor Office complaints and try to settle and resolve them.
- Employees’ register, penalties register, employees with special needs register and foreign employees’ register.
- Dealing with and disposing of the proceeds of employee penalties.
Daily Support
- We provide you with support and consulting services around the clock
Services related to the Social Insurance Law
- Preparing social insurance forms C1 C6 C2 C7 for new employees and sending them to the Social Insurance Office.
- Preparing medical examination form 111 for new employees.
- Verify the number of annual leave days due to each employee if he is entitled to 21-30 days based on the employee’s age and the number of years of social insurance.
- Reviewing the insurance cases of each employee, job modifications, and solving insurance period problems.
- Try to include the period of the government sector to the private sector and registering it.
- Preparing and extracting all types of company certificates for all cars, making adjustments and transferring them from one office to another.
- Opening insurance facilities for all new companies and insuring new employees.
- Submitting all pension cases – and presenting them to the medical committee – and submitting work injuries until disbursement.
- Dealing with all insurance inspection offices and working to resolve them.