Intellectual Property Law Firm in Cameroon and the OAPI Jurisdiction

Legal Power Law Firm

2nd Floor Immeuble, Batirama, Fokou Douche, Akwa
P.O. Box 12041
Douala
Cameroon

+237 33 06 34 43

+237 33 42 00 68

www.legalpowerlawfirm.com

Contact Mr. Angoh Angoh Jacob

Law Firm Overview

Legal Power Law Firm is a dedicated firm offering its clients a high level of expertise and professional services of excellent quality. The firm was founded by Barrister Angoh Angoh Jacob.

Our style of practice is a model, which encourages a vigorous team spirit and accentuates the advantages of proficiency, rapidity, reliability, security, discreteness and honesty towards our clientele. The unique internal structures of the Firm ensure that the relationship between its individual lawyers is co-operative and excellent, all to the advantage of our clients. The Firm is supported by a network of consultants and Law Firms at home and abroad to further enhance the effectiveness and high quality services.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Job Site Safety, Tax Avoidance, Water Law, Registration of Companies And Associations.

Practice Areas Description

Legal Power Law Firm provides legal representation and services in the following areas of practice:

— Admiralty & Maritime
Legal Power Firm is a prominent Law Firm within the entire Central African Sub-region with the aid of external consultants online, in the areas of Admiralty, Shipping, Marine Insurance, Transport Law and the Law governing Maritime within the entire sub-region of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC). We are unique to have a specialist external Consultant on Marine Law of our Firm. The specialist services we offer include:
• arrest and attachment of ships and property, claims, disputes on behalf of ship-owners, importers, freight forwarders, stevedores, underwriters, charter party disputes, arrest for security for arbitration and other proceedings within the sub-region and other claims against ship-owners and chatterers
• we represent creditors following the sale of a ship and if possible establish a fund from the proceedings of that sale.

— Aviation
We are specialized and experienced in aviation and related aspects. We have an external licensed Technical Expert to our vibrant legal services. Our consultant has a specialized staff that offers quality services under the best conditions, even when our field services management team handles your specific and recurrent operations within the Central and West African regions. Areas of specialization here include:
• advice on liability claim
• Interpretation of insurance policies
• advice regarding insurance claims
• analysis of international conventions
• accident inquiries
• aircraft finance and corporate commercial transactions
• leasing of aircraft
• advice on the registration of aircraft
• advice on licensing air transport

— Banking & Finance
The Banking and Finance Law Department is a specialized division of the Firm which offers a wide range of services concerning banking and finance. These include:
• incorporation and procurement of banking licenses within the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC)
• corporate finance and securities
• corporate debt and multilateral development bank financing
• negotiating dent work-out for non-performing loans
• legal audit of banking legal instruments
• advice on international development projects and rescheduling of international debt
• project and structure finance
• advice in respect of all aspects of financing

— Commercial Transactions & Litigations
Our Commercial and Corporate Law Division enjoys a local and international reputation for the quality of its services. It is well known for the following specialized services:
• debt recoveries and payments
• advice on the structuring of transactions
• advice on the selection of the most appropriate entity for transactions
• planning of group structures
• capital market advice and transactions
• drafting of documents such as Sale Agreements, Leases, Supply Agreements, Shareholders’ Agreement, Insurance Policies, etc
• advice on e-commerce transactions.
• insolvency

— Insurance
The introduction of the Insurance Code applicable in the CEMAC region known by its French acronym as the CIMA CODE has witnessed the growth and development of the Insurance Industry in the entire Sub-region, Cameroon inclusive. Our Insurance Law Division caters for all long and short-term insurance (including reinsurance) needs. Our areas of specialization include:
• advice on insurance legislation
• insurance policies
• registration of new insurers
• policy drafting and underwriting advice
• professional indemnity
• aviation and maritime insurance
• fire, motor accidents and general liability insurance
• reinsurance
• long term insurance and pensions
• the consequences of the failure to take an insurance policy
• all claims and disputes

— Intellectual Property
As a result of the multi-corporate client base of the Legal Power Firm, the partners have undertaken extensive work in Intellectual Property Law. Our IP Law Department offers a broad-based service in this area including but not limited to:
• acquisition, registration and protection of intellectual property
• litigation on all aspects of trademarks
• licensing and technical agreements
• all related aspects of taxation
• domain names
• Internet law
• restraints and contracting for monopoly protection

— Labor & Social Security
The reputation of Legal Power Firm in Labor Law is because of its offer of a comprehensive range of professional services to its corporate client base. Its services can be categorized thus:
• advice and drafting of collective agreements, contracts of employment of managerial & junior staff, consultancy agreements and restraint of trade agreements
• advice on Labor Law implication of acquisition, mergers and transfer of business
• advice on all aspects of retrenchment, redundancy and rationalization
• advice on implementation of skills development, employment equity and discrimination.
• advice on labor disputes, reconciliation and resolution
• advice on collective bargaining strategies including unilateral implementations of lock outs and other forms of industrial actions
• advice on statutorily based basic employment conditions and minimum standards, skills development and employment equity programs
• advice to the right of social insurance contribution
• advice to the right of social insurance contribution. Job site security

— Mergers & Acquisitions
Our Commercial and Corporate Division has extensive and varied experiences and expertise in mergers and acquisitions, including:
• drafting of all necessary documents
• joint ventures
• takeover offers
• schemes of arrangement
• due diligence investigations and report
• advice in respect of employment law issues arising from transactions
• advice on appropriate structures of transactions and their implementations

— Minerals, Gas & Energy Law
Cameroon and the Central African Sub-region are endowed with a wealth of unexploited minerals, gas & oil and energy resources. This area of practice is steadily gaining grounds. Our team of skillful legal experts specializes in the following areas:
• acquisition of mining licenses
• acquisition of gas and oil licenses
• permits to operate a power plant
• environmental dispute resolution through mediation
• representation to public authorities
• mining rehabilitation obligations
• environmental management assessment
• legislation relating to the environment and water
• criminal prosecution and liability
• we furnish our clients with the mineral potentials of Cameroon.
• we advice clients on the exoneration benefits of investing in these areas
• we make follow-ups on their behalf to obtain exploration and exploitation licenses

— Property Law
The Property Law team deals with:
• long- and short-term leases
• mineral leases
• transfer of immovable property
• trust, including formation and administration of trust and drafting of trust deeds
• advice on mortgages
• pre-nuptial contracts

— Registration of Companies & Associations
We assist our local and multi-national clients in the incorporation of their companies and establishment. We register from a sole-owner company to a Private, Public Limited Company and a non-limited company for major financial institutions, mining houses, industrial groups, multinational companies, medium-sized organizations, individual businesses and entrepreneurs.

We are experienced in the registration of non-profit and other associations in Cameroon.

We advice our clients on the various options of companies to register, we follow-up their employment contracts, immigration formalities and all related documentation for the takeoff of their businesses.

— Taxation, Tax Avoidance & Customs Duties
This area of specialization was initiated as a result of the recurrent disputes reported by both our local and expatriate clients. Most of our foreign clients investing in Cameroon or the CEMAC Sub-region do not master the taxation policies of Cameroon and the sub-region. Our team of legal experts in consultation with the Taxation and Customs Departments are capable of furnishing our clientele with the current Tax and Customs trends. We therefore advice our clients in:
• tax benefits in the areas of investment
• customs exoneration in their areas of investment
• tax avoidance to clients
• tax and Customs penalties

— Debt Recovery
We handle debt recovery cases for individuals, and both national and multi-national corporations in Cameroon and the entire sub-region. We are the exclusive representative of the Collection Law Firm in Cameroon; a Canadian Law Firm specialized in the recovery of debt all over the world.

Lawyers

Mr. Angoh Angoh Jacob
Managing Lawyer
Admiralty and Maritime, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Aviation Law, Banking and Finance, Business and Industry