Business & Commercial Law Services in Sudan

Dr. Adam & Associates LLP

Khartoum - Nile Tower 5th Floor, East Sudanese-French Bank
P.O. Box 8355
Khartoum 12217
Sudan

+249 155139184

+249 155139182

www.dradamlawfirm.com/

Contact Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Adam

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Law Firm Overview

Dr. Adam & Associates LLP is a full service law firm located in Sudan. We offer a full range of legal services to meet the diverse and rapidly evolving needs of our clients of national and international standing. We provide quality services to a diverse clientele including individuals, small businesses as well as corporations having production and distribution services worldwide in a cost effective and timely manner. We believe in a service which is apt to result in a long term relationship with our clients.

With broad industry knowledge and experience in a wide variety of areas, we devise solutions that address each client particular needs and objectives in light of integrated strategies, creative solutions conducive to achieve the desired results. Our goal is to be the firm of choice for clients with the most challenging business transactions. Our firm is dedicated to providing excellent and comprehensive legal services to companies whether the company is a start-up or an established market leader.

Our firm's attorneys practice across broad areas of business law conducting intricate business transactions, litigation, and intellectual property matters. We understand that clients' relationship is built on confidence and expands in due course when a law firm comprehends the nature of a client's business, grasps client's requirements and offers timely, high quality, unfailing helpful service. In addition to our specialized practice areas in corporate and commercial law practice, we have developed a supplementary web site that highlights intellectual property as a special focus area of our firm.

Our philosophy is to initiate and be part of a strongly interrelated network of lawyers around the world. We strive to boost our reach by our alliance with international law firms which need local lawyers well conversant of domestic culture, business and language.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Engineering Contracts; Foreign Direct Investment.

Practice Areas Description

Our areas of practice include:

- Corporate Law

In every case we focus on our clients’ business with a view to assisting in achieving their conceived goals. In addition to undertaking routine transactions, we are also well-situated to structure complicated and novel transactions. We have to know to work out intricate issues and device sensible creative solutions. We render legal advice in contentious and non-contentious corporate matters. Tax is regularly an essential part of our transactional advice to our clients. Our firm has a comprehensive corporate practice ranges from company start-up to merger and acquisition, company’s reorganization, joint venture agreements and venture capital transactions. We are also prepared to negotiate and draft a wide variety of commercial contracts relevant to corporate business.

- Commercial Law

Our firm advises on a broad range of commercial agreements. Contractual relationships are highly important in any business activity. Our commercial practice combines strategic understanding, besides technical excellence. We strive to ensure that our clients’ activities are adequately protected in all contentious and no-contentious matters. Our firm provides practical and professional advice on all contractual issues. We are well equipped to negotiate and draft all types of commercial agreements covering all trading activities of business. We have extensive commercial expertise which can be fitting to various situations and business requirements. Our firm can assist in identifying agents and joint ventures partners, and can provide counseling and advice in respect of sale, distribution and marketing of products and services.

- Construction & Engineering Contracts

Our firm provides services which run from project conception to final takeover, including legal issues that may arise during the maintenance period. In connection with the non-contentious part, we are well prepared to advice upon, negotiate and draft relevant documents for projects of all types. Our legal services include advising on procurement strategy. Perhaps most important, advising appropriate terms and conditions and in particular, warranty, indemnity, insurance, disclaimer, and a limitation of liability clause. Our practice is based on structuring a contract which contains all the main required clauses based on sound international practice such as FIDIC Forms. Nonetheless, we deal with all forms of claims avoidance and resolution of issue that may arise during the life of the project. We normally assist clients to determine disputes without resort to expensive formal proceedings.

- Banking & Finance

Our firms is well situated to represent lenders and borrowers in connection with commercial lending transactions, commercial credit facilities, asset based lending contracts, loans in connection with construction and engineering contracts. Our services cover corporate banking including corporate lending, acquisition finance, joint ventures finance, property finance, project finance including asset finance. Our firm offers a full range of legal services to both bankers and their customers. Our advice extends to all types of lending and security transactions from the simple to the very complex. In appropriate cases where the volume of the transaction warrants, we work as part of our client’s team. In the aforesaid instances, we are prepared to be retained either to lead or to be part of a team of specialists from diverse disciplines.

- Insolvency

We offer specialist legal advice in contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters and corporate transactions. A major bad debt can endanger any company’s solvency. Accordingly, bankruptcy is a legal process designed to help debtors whether companies or individuals to eliminate their debts or repay them under the protection of a competent court. Insolvency may materialize either when a firm's fails to pay bills as they mature in ordinary course of business or when the fair market value of the firm's assets is less than its total liabilities as the balance sheet may demonstrate. A lot of businesses that file for bankruptcy are deal on arrival, that is to say hopelessly insolvent. We provide fully integrated legal advisory services in a broad range of engagements both pre and post bankruptcy filing. We act for debtors, creditors, controlling shareholders, and investors embracing out of court restructuring and pre-negotiated bankruptcies.

- International Arbitration

Our firm is well-equipped to provide litigation assistance across the entire gamut of business litigation, in situations where litigation is the only way out to resolve a dispute. However, our lawyers recognize that litigation is normally a last resort to resolve disputes or maintain rights. Emphasis on cost effective and results driven litigation strategies directed our firm to build up wide expertise in the representation of clients in arbitration; conciliation, mediation and other out of court methods of resolving disputes.

Needless to say, the option of litigation makes it difficult for the parties to resume normal relationships thereafter as litigation is apt to create confrontation. Litigation as it develops, it leads to hardening of positions within the parties’ minds and in some cases it may eventually lead to a lock-in of bargaining positions. On the other hand, ADR assists the parties to avoid confrontation, provides wide latitude of neutrality, speedy settlement, confidentiality, proficiency, and smaller cost. In international business, the role of litigation before courts has been chiefly reduced by litigation before international arbitral tribunals depending on such institutions and procedural rules.

- Energy Law

Our firm is prepared to offer high quality advice to world's energy and natural resources companies in addition to counseling other companies investing or offering services in connection with any such contractual arrangements. Our firm is well-situated to provide legal services for foreign companies involved in projects for exploration and exploitation of oil and natural gas and any other energy projects such as power generation projects including qualifying facilities and plants. Such projects are invariably carried out by joint ventures concerning foreign companies engaging on technologically and commercially multifaceted schemes. The price and profits of these projects can be huge. Nearly all contracts are long and necessitate a precautious approach to contract elements and drafting. Our firm can offer counsel in the process of drafting bespoke contracts and advising on the terms and conditions of the contract documents.

- Foreign Direct Investment

The Sudan in addition to the oil and mining sector is endowed with potential agricultural, animal resources and other non-hydrocarbon sectors providing sufficient inter -sector linkages. The Ministry of Investment, implements investment government policy. Legal and institutional framework supports an investment climate apt to attract foreign direct investment. The Ministry of Investment is a member of World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA). Foreign investment in the Sudan is protected by binding international instruments. The Sudan is a member of World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).World Bank Guidelines are used by foreign investment promotion agencies, including the Sudanese agency.

- Maritime Law

Our firm recognizes that shipping law matters play a fundamental function in the conduct of world trade. Our firm is well situated to provide advisory work as general counsel for shipping companies on a wide range of issues in connection with maritime business transactions including maritime causalities, maritime insurance, shipping construction disputes with particular emphasis on the resolution by litigation, arbitration or ADR of disputes arising out of the following: Charter parties; Bills of lading; Marine insurance; Cargo claims; Maritime liens; Maritime causalities, collisions, total losses, salvage, general average; and, Ship construction disputes.

- International Trade

We have specialized expertise and experience as regards issues pertaining to international trade matters. Our firm recognizes that GATT/WTO liberalization efforts have generated a substantial impact on domestic and foreign companies. On account of our strong understanding of issues and trends related to commercial globalization, our firm is well equipped to advise on the regulation of international trade in goods and services. We are prepared to advice and represent corporations across many industries including manufacturing, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and high technology.

- Insurance Law

Practical knowledge and effective solutions to insurance disputes ultimately involve the interpretation of complex and often confusing policy language. It requires knowledge of insurance law and legal precedents. Our firm understands the concerns of both insurers and insured. Having the requisite industry knowledge, we are well placed to provide legal services for both insurance carriers and corporate customers as regards risk management and general insurance advice. Our corporate and insurance practice provides high quality specialist advice to strategic decision makers. We advise on all matters of insurance and reinsurance. However, our firm's philosophy is that insurance coverage claims should be resolved amicably as and when appropriate.

- Tax Law

Almost invariably all commercial dealings have tax implications. Tax matters may have an effect on the transaction such as dictating what form the transaction shall assume. Tax is the key to comprehend why most transactions are structured in a particular technique. When structuring and documenting corporate transactions, adverse tax consequences should be minimized. Our firm provides services in all areas of commercial taxation and advice on transactions across a broad range of industries. The interpretation of present tax law is intricate, and often requires the joint skills of a variety of experts from different disciplines. We bring together our legal expertise with other professionals to approach unique tax and business challenges. Besides, our firm works directly with client in-house and independent consultants in accounting, financial planning, economics, and other disciplines.

- Intellectual Property

Our firm offers a full range of legal services relating to intellectual property. As a matter of fact our Intellectual Property Group handles all matters in connection with intellectual property. The Intellectual Property Group is committed to providing high quality legal counsel to technology driven clients. We assist clients in various industries embracing, among others, pharmaceuticals, chemical, electrical, mechanical, electronic, and computer technology.

Our range of services includes filing and prosecuting applications for patents, trademarks, designs and copyright. Again, it also covers handling oppositions, infringement, revocation and other proceedings up to the granting of intellectual property rights. Our firm is prepared to meet our clients' need as regards advising, searching, maintaining and securing our clients' intellectual property rights. We advise clients on acquisition, transfer and exploitation of intellectual property rights. We assist our clients in connection of enforcement of intellectual property rights and where appropriate we advise our client as regards dispute resolution in respect of patents, trademarks, copyright, design and confidential information. We represent our clients before competent courts as when appropriate. Our attorneys have extensive experience in drafting and negotiating technology transfer agreements.