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Experience. Expertise. Commitment. Essential qualities that build the reputation of a law
firm. Qualities that are vouched for when it comes to Al Alawi & Co - a full service law firm
that believes in partnering its clients with understanding and dedication.
With a genuine interest in the welfare of our clients, we at Al Alawi are committed towards
the delivery of dependable, timely, high-quality work that brings measurable value.
Our client relationship and industry alliance allows us to concentrate on the dynamic
evolution of the marketplace while keeping pace with the changes in the legal industry
to offer sound legal representation.
We are always known to take that extra step to obtain the right result for our clients,
that too in the quickest possible time. While we are certainly proud of the results we get,
we would also like to emphasise key aspects of our professional staff. They are friendly,
approachable, empathetic people who you will easily relate to from your first encounter.
Partners, we said we would be... and your experience will not be different, we assure you.
I welcome you to explore and examine all that Al Alawi & Co can offer you...
It takes creative
thinking to come up
with solutions that
will work in the
real world, not just
in theory.
The Firm
Al Alawi & Co is led by Founder and Managing Partner, Ali Khamis Al Alawi. Having originally established
individual practice in 1982, he was a founding partner of Al Alawi and Mansoor Jamal & Co before establishing
Al Alawi & Co as a full service and fully independent law firm with its headquarters in Muscat. Today he has a team
of hand-picked, highly qualified and experienced professionals totally geared to take on the challenging
requirements of a globalised world.
It is the Companys objective to provide the clients with the latest and the most appropriate strategies using
state-of-the-art analytical tools and management techniques. To work as efficiently as possible alongside our
clients we have ensured the use of the most contemporary modes of communications. By increasing our efficiency
and responsiveness, and by sharing knowledge through key initiatives, we remain agile and focused when dealing
with the varying aspects of our clients business.
Al Alawi & Co provides client-oriented, cutting edge, cost-effective legal expertise across a variety of practice areas.
The client-centric attitude of our firm is obvious in the close attention we pay to our clients objectives, our clear and
prompt responses and the consistent awareness we maintain of the cost/benefit trade-offs that are inherent in any
legal representation.
Al Alawi & Co
maintains a close
relationship with
its clients. The firm
is praised for its
commitment to
the client, strong
problem-solving
skills and its
professional and
practical approach,
which enables good
commercial and
business decisions.
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Client-centric Services: Our primary objective is always to assist our clients to achieve their commercial
ambitions, underpinned by sound commercial judgment. We are geared to adapt our advice in line with clients
changing requirements.
International Network: Our wide network of international associates enables us to excel in delivering
multi-jurisdictional legal services.
Cost Effectiveness: While we pride ourselves on our services and our commitment to quality standards our
charges surprisingly affordable. The calibre and cost-effectiveness of our legal expertise is primarily the result
of our partners and associates exceptional experience, education, as also their commitment to information
and technology.
Specialised Services
Corporate and Commercial
Our corporate lawyers handle the full range of corporate, securities and finance, including public offerings,
private placements of equity and debt for both issuers and underwriters. The majority of our clients have
wide-ranging corporate and commercial requirements within the growing economies of the region. One of the most
important areas of the teams transactional work relates to the merger and acquisition activity undertaken by our
multinational clients.
We offer solid expertise in the corporate partnering area, focusing primarily on joint venture, licensing and
development agreements. Our practice includes experience in negotiating a broad range of complex manufacturing
joint ventures and other contractual relationships involving the sharing or transfer of intellectual property.
The lawyers of the Corporate and Commercial team offer their own particular strengths and specialisations within
the broad range of services offered, drawing on a depth of international and local knowledge. Our lawyers also
handle venture capital and other early-stage financings, transactions involving private equity funds, and
specialised financings in both the domestic and international context. In addition, we work on complex business
restructurings, both in and outside of court-supervised proceedings.
ICC
LCIA
UNCITRAL
Commodity Arbitrations
LMAA
Regional Arbitration Centres
Disputes across national boundaries have become commonplace in today's commercial world. In an effort to avoid
the uncertainties and complexities of foreign courts, most international agreements provide for dispute resolution
through the more neutral auspices of arbitration and mediation.
The firm oversees litigation on behalf of its clients in all of the courts of Oman. With extensive experience in the
local courts, the strength of our litigation team is internationally renowned.
Capital Markets
The scope and depth of our understanding of the Omani Securities Market is an asset that enables us to offer clients
seamless advice across markets in their worldwide financing activities involving Oman. We advise on a spectrum of
legal, commercial and compliance issues significant to capital markets, such as:
Portfolio Investments
Equity Offerings
Vetting of Offer Documents
Applications to Regulatory Authorities, Statutory Filings, etc.
Listing and Reporting requirements
Private Placements
Foreign Institutional Investors
Derivatives & Structured Products
Public Offers
General advice on Securities Laws.
Our shipping team also has a dedicated ship finance group which deals with transactional work including but not
limited to syndicated debt financing transactions as well as ship sale and purchase work.
Intellectual Property
Al Alawi & Co maintains a Specialised Intellectual Property (IP) Cell comprising of experienced Litigation and
Transactional lawyers. We advise across the gamut of legal, commercial and compliance issues, registration of
trademark, notice of opposition, renewal of registration of trademark, restoration of trademark, passing-off,
anti-counterfeiting actions, certificate of the Register with regard to a proposed assignment of a registered
trademark, registration of registered user, cancellation of entry of a registered user of trademark, search, litigation,
drafting of documents, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights including rights relating to
trademarks, copyrights, patents and designs. The firm also prepares intellectual property licensing and registered
user agreements. Matters arising in connection with the media, communications and entertainment fields,
competition law, institution of civil and criminal actions against infringers, licensing and franchising agreements
and data protection advice.
Disclaimer:
This information booklet is not intended to advertise our services or capabilities, or solicit work, in any manner whatsoever. The contents of this booklet are aimed
merely at providing more information about our firm to persons who are interested in knowing more about us. Al Alawi & Co does not assume any responsibility
whatsoever for any unauthorized distribution or dissemination of this information booklet or part thereof in any form or any consequences thereof.
Contact us:
Al Alawi & Co
Advocates & Legal Consultants
Al Alawi Law Firm Building,
No. 785, Way 2708, Qurum 29
PO Box 3746, PC 112, Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Tel : +968 246 99761/2
Fax : +968 246 99763
e-mail: contact@alalawico.com
www.alalawico.com