Managing Partner
Baher & James Law Firm
Total years of experience :28 years, 7 Months
Managing and handling all the legal matters including but not limited to the corporate issues and drafting, Reviewing and analysis the contracts and agreements
· drafting and review the commercial and residential lease contracts. . Risk Assessment & Management. · Contracts Review. · Projects Support. · Dispute resolution and litigation management. · Legal Study and Analysis · Corporate Legal Management. · Corporate Culture Understanding. · I had developed and implemented many various policies and programs with the cooperation of several local and international businesses over the middle east regions.
Legal Risk Management •Overall responsible for the company’s legal affairs and regularly provides legal information and practical guidance to the company’s legal affairs. •Provide legal assistance for company’s major policy decisions, advisory services and decision-making recommendations. •Participate in business law involving negotiations and important contract auditing. •Responsible for land transfer and other fix asset transfer •Responsible for organizing the preparations for shareholders meeting and the board meeting, deal with all the procedure and document before the meeting, during the meeting and after the meeting. •Collect sort and archive all the meeting document of shareholders, board of directors, partner’s manager. •Providing legal advice regarding the company services. •Assisting teams with deal risk assessment and risk mitigation •Drafting and reviewing agreements and contracts in English - Arabic such as (Sales agreements, Supply agreements, Non-Disclosure agreements, contracting agreements, lease agreements, contract of adherence & maintenance agreements, employment agreements. •Contract Negotiations: •Review and draft all contracts and agreements or any other documentation such as (construction, sub-contracting, third party, Supply, Sales and Maintenance contracts) where the Company has committed to and assess legal implications that need to be brought to the executive management’s attention in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Emirates. •Prepare, review and modify contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities in accordance with SRG policy. •Litigation Management: •Drafting and prepare the legal consultations subject to the internal legal matters for the company subject to the operational departments and their projects. •Maintain and liaising the disputes resolution and proceeding the all the litigation and lawsuits. •Representing and defending the company before the jurisdiction courts and pleading.
• • Providing legal advice regarding the IT services and outsourcing agreements, including contract development, review and negotiation
• Assisting teams with deal risk assessment and risk mitigation
• Providing legal advice and strategies in relation to protection of intellectual property
• Providing legal advice in relation to privacy and data protection
• Assisting teams with deal governance and processes
• Assisting team in dealing with third party outsourcing consultants and intermediaries
• Assistance on corporate, general commercial, anti-trust, competition, software licensing and commercial and government contracting matters for all Businesses within the regions (Riyadh, Dubai and Egypt).
• Drafting and negotiating complex business agreements and developing legal provisions for standard sales, services, distribution, software license, contract manufacturing, procurement, marketing, joint venture, and other strategic relationship agreements and templates
• Counselling on distribution and channel strategies; advertising, marketing, and other promotional activities
• Managing or coordinating significant disputes, litigation settlements, government agency inquiries, and general management of litigation disputes and outside counsel engagements
• Handling the legal aspects of transactions with customers and agents,
• Representing HP on legal matters and investigations before the government.
• Managing corporate matters, including those that arise as HP acquires or divests businesses, supporting the functions, including Human Resources and Global Supply Chain.
• Helping to ensure that the Company conducts itself in an ethical and legal manner.
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Legal Risk Management
•Providing legal advice regarding Telecom services and outsourcing agreements, Managed Services, supply agreements including contract development, review and negotiation.
•Assisting teams with deal risk assessment and risk mitigation
•Providing legal advice and strategies in relation to protection of intellectual property
•Drafting and reviewing agreements and contracts in English - Arabic such as (Sales agreements, Supply agreements, Master frame agreements, Non Disclosure agreements, contracting agreements, lease agreements, contract of adherence & maintenance agreements, employment agreements...
Overall responsible for the company’s legal affairs and regularly provides legal information and practical guidance to the company’s legal affairs.
Provide legal assistance for company’s major policy decisions, advisory services and decision-making recommendations.
Participate in business law involving negotiations and important contract auditing.
Responsible for land transfer and other fix asset transfer
Responsible for organizing the preparations for shareholders meeting and the board meeting, deal with all the procedure and document before the meeting, during the meeting and after the meeting.
Collect sort and archive all the meeting document of shareholders, board of directors, partner’s manager.
•Contract Negotiations:
•Review and draft all contracts and agreements or any other documentation such as (Supply, Managed Services, Warranty, Sales and Maintenance contracts) in Egypt, Libya and Sudan. (Vodafone, Etisalat, Mobinil, Telecom Egypt, )
•Litigation Management:
•Drafting and prepare the legal consultations subject to the operational departments and their projects.
•Maintain and liaising the disputes resolution and proceeding the all the litigation and lawsuits whether filed against and from the company related to the company activities.
•Drafting all the employment contracts and insure the compliance with local laws
• Drafting and reviewing agreements and contracts in English - Arabic such as formation joint venture agreements, B.O.T contracts, employment contracts, shareholders agreements, purchase and sale stocks agreements, articles of association, franchise agreement, distributorship agreements, lease agreements, lease with option to buy agreements sale and purchase proprieties agreements, gas oil agreements and similar contracts.
• Maintain all companies’ formation such as limited liability companies, sole proprietorship, joint stock companies and international off shore companies.
• Maintain and Proceeding and following all the legal procedures of companies’ formation with the specialized governments in Kuwait
• Advice and guidance to companies in regard to the daily corporate activities, transactions and arrangements, planning of group structuring.
• Legal advice on local and international business laws and disputes.
• Providing sound legal advise on group contracts, leases and legal obligations.
• Participate in legal contracts negotiations.
• Ensuring compliance of all group companies with country legal activities & laws.
• Conducting legal studies, research and analysis.
• Drafting and reviewing agreements and contracts in English - Arabic such as (agency agreements, reseller agreements, contracting agreements, lease agreements, lease with option to buy contracts, franchising agreements, web site development agreements and IT services management agreements.....etc.)
• Maintain and analysis the tenders which the company bid for it and prepare the legal opinion to ensure the compliance the company with applicable laws.
• Maintain, reviewing and proceeding all types of insurance policies, which are required for the company such as (group life, employer’s liability and fidelity insurance.... etc.)
• Drafting and prepare the legal consultations subject to the internal legal matters for the company which are related to the operational departments and their projects.
• Maintain and proceeding all the legal formalities such as (board members meetings, general assembly and extraordinary meetings)
• Advice and guidance to company in regard to the daily corporate activities, transactions and all the related legal matters.
• Convene annual general meetings and board meetings and prepare minutes of the company, ensure corporate compliance with legal and statutory requirements.
• Maintain appropriate share registers for the company.
• Maintain trademark database and establish new trademarks for the Company.
• Interact and maintain relationship with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and coordinate registration of agency agreements and maintain database of registration certificates.
• Drafting and reviewing agreements and contracts in English - Arabic such as formation joint venture agreements, B.O.T contracts, employment contracts, shareholders agreements, purchase and sale stocks agreements, articles of association, franchise agreement, distributorship agreements, lease agreements, lease with option to buy agreements sale and purchase proprieties agreements, gas oil agreements and similar contracts.
• Maintain all companies’ formation such as limited liability companies, sole proprietorship, joint stock companies and international off shore companies.
• Maintain and Proceeding and following all the legal procedures of companies’ formation with the specialized governments in Kuwait
• Advice and guidance to companies in regard to the daily corporate activities, transactions and arrangements, planning of group structuring.
• Legal advice on local and international business laws and disputes.
• Providing sound legal advise on group contracts, leases and legal obligations.
• Participate in legal contracts negotiations.
• Ensuring compliance of all group companies with country legal activities & laws.
• Conducting legal studies, research and analysis.
• Corporate and Business law
• Drafting and reviewing agreements and contracts in English - Arabic such as formation joint venture agreements, employment contracts, shareholders agreements, articles of association, franchise agreement, distributorship agreements, lease agreements, lease with option to buy agreements sale and purchase proprieties agreements, gas oil agreements and similar contracts.
• Maintain all companies’ formation such as limited liability companies, sole proprietorship, joint stock companies and international off shore companies.
• Advice and guidance to companies in regard to the daily corporate activities, transactions and arrangements, planning of group structuring.
• Legal advice on local and international business laws and disputes.
• Providing sound legal advise on group contracts, leases and legal obligations.
• Participate in legal contracts negotiations.
• Advising & recommending legal advice on agency representation.
• Ensuring compliance of all group companies with country legal activities & laws.
• Evaluating international contract agreements for agencies, JV & trade agreements.
• Coordinating with senior management all legal actions/cases for each Perspective Company /division.
• Conducting legal studies, research and analysis.
• Labor Law
• Drafting agreements and contracts such as employment contracts,
• And other procedural agreements.
• Advice on labor dismissal and employment benefits
• Launching urgent proceedings with the Labor committees
• General Insurance, Reinsurance and compensation cases
• Assisting several companies on the formation and initial financing of insurance enterprises.
• Represent insurers, reinsurers, insured, agents, brokers, and underwriters in various forums and litigations.
• Represent clients in coverage disputes, reinsurance disputes, and liquidation related matters.
• Advising clients on comprehensive and third party liability issues.
Drafting agreements and contracts such as formation joint venture agreements, shareholders agreements, articles of association, Gas oil agreements, franchise agreements, security agreements, distributorship agreements, sale properties contracts and similar contracts in English - Arabic.
Proceeding and following all the legal procedures of companies formation with the specialized governments in U.A.E
Advice and guidance to companies in regard to the daily corporate activities, transactions and arrangements, planning of group structuring.
Legal advice on local and international business laws and disputes.
Drafting and reviewing employment contracts, agency agreements, and other international Contracts for individuals, corporations and companies providing legal advice for individuals and companies in:
• Criminal Law
• Personal Law
• Civil Transaction act
• Commercial Transaction act
• Labor Law
• Appearing before the preliminary courts, appeal courts
• Companies formation, Patents and Trademarks registration
• Preparing the legal opinion for the civil and commercial legal suits and drafting the initiatory pleading.
• Ensuring compliance of all group companies with country legal activities & laws.
• Evaluating and reviewing the international contract agreements for agencies, JV & trade agreements.
studying and practicing the following law sectors: Contract Law international commercial contracts commercial law civil law criminal law and i had received a Ph,D. doctorate at law for the contract law from bakerville university -USA
