Antoine Bechara

- Advise, negotiate, and draft English and Arabic Agreements.
- Provide written and oral consultancies along with daily legal support.
- Negotiate, supervise, and execute Joint Ventures & Shareholders Agreements
- Pursue the legal cases which the company and its affiliated are part of.
- Conduct legal searches and studies.
- Organize the shareholder’s general assembly and board of directors meetings and pursue all relevant legal procedures for the group of companies.
- Study & prepare Requests for proposal (RFP) and Requests to Tender (RTT).
- Monitor the legal aspects of the company’s transactions, including offers, letters of intents, insurance policies, waivers & releases, etc.
- Establish Companies and legal entities in numerous countries .
- Conduct and pursue International Arbitration in Switzerland, Dubai, and other Countries.
- Manage, sell, and rent real-estates abroad, i.e. Spain, France, Switzerland, Lebanon, and Sudan.

Job Description: Managing the Legal affairs of Mazaya Company and its Affiliated Companies in KSA, Qatar, Kuwait, more particularly:
•Provide written and oral consultancies along with daily legal support.
•Advise, negotiate, and draft English and Arabic Agreements.
•Negotiate, supervise, and execute Joint Ventures & Shareholders Agreements with new partners in Kuwait, Bahrain, & Qatar.
•Pursue the daily requirements and legal procedures of Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) and Capital Market Authority (CMA).
•Pursue the legal cases which the company and its affiliated are part of.
•Conduct legal searches and studies for the Company’s interests.
•Organize the shareholder’s general assembly and board of directors meetings and pursue all relevant legal procedures for the group of companies.
•Monitor the legal aspects of the company’s transactions, including offers, letters of intents, insurance policies, waivers & releases, etc.
- Establish Companies and legal entities in numerous countries .

Job description: Managing the Company's legal affairs, namely:
•Provide written and oral consultancies along with daily legal support and guidance to chairman, operation, business development, and all company’s sections.
•Perform and manage all in-house legal affairs of a shareholding company, and monitor the company’s legal work.
•Advise, negotiate, and draft wide range of agreements in English and Arabic.
•Negotiate, supervise, and Execute Joint Ventures and Shareholder Agreements with new partners.
•Conduct the entire process of listing the company in the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE).
•Pursue the daily legal requirements of Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) and Capital Market Authority (CMA).
•Provide Legal assistance with respect to Kuwaiti Labor Laws, expatriate status, work permits, residencies, and provide legal assistance to foreign counsels regarding the same.
•Draft memorandums and pleadings and follow up all legal cases which the company is part of.
•Organize the shareholder’s general assembly and board of directors meetings, and pursue all relevant legal procedures.
•Execute and monitor due diligence and acquisition of Kuwaiti companies.
•Study & prepare Requests for proposal (RFP) and Requests to Tender (RTT).
•Conduct researches about the different rules that the company should abide by.
•Analyze the probable result of cases using knowledge of legal precedents.

Reporting to VP- Legal

Job description: Dealing with all Company's legal affairs and providing all legal assistance to affiliated companies:
•Follow up all legal proceedings and court cases.
•Assure the company's compliance with local laws and regulations.
•Assure the permanent validity of all the Company's licenses as required from the relevant ministries and authorities.
•Organize the General Assembly of Shareholders and draft their minutes of meetings.
•Assist the CEO and CFO in all negotiations related to the business transactions and/or disputes settlements in order to preserve the company's legal and financial rights and interests.
•Assist in re-structuring the Company's policy in Kuwait and GCC countries and regulate the Company's liaison with all sister Companies.
•Draft, negotiate, and comment on all English contracts, and the entire English Work of Al Wazzan Holding Group and all its affiliated companies, Including Burhan International Constructions Company, Al-Mowasat Hospital Company, Mushrif Trading & Contracting Co, and other affiliated Companies.
•Handle litigations of different nature, namely, contracting cases related to Burhan International Constructions Company and Khalifa Al Dabbous Company, medical & insurance cases related to Al Mowasat Hospital Company, commercial cases related to Supplying Stores Company (Sony), labor cases, and many other cases.
•Draft and negotiate several Distributorship, Franchise and Agency Agreements in the state of Kuwait, i.e. SONY Distributorship Agreement, KONE Distributorship Agreement, CBI Agency Agreement.
•Draft, negotiate, & finalize several sponsorship agreements between foreign companies and Kuwaiti sponsor companies.
•Perform Due Diligence along with drafting, negotiating, and finalizing contracts and procedures for acquisition of Kuwaiti companies.
•Draft and comment on contracts & due diligence for acquisition of companies located in Sudan, Egypt & Lebanon.
•Coordinate and supervise legal proceedings in France, Switzerland, Bahamas islands, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco.
•Manage, sell, and rent real-estates abroad, i.e. Spain, France, Switzerland, Lebanon, and Sudan.
•Coordinate with the external/offshore lawyers.

Job description: Handling cases of diverse nature including commercial, civil, & penal and:
•Incorporate commercial institutions, branches, shareholding companies, offshore companies, holding companies, etc.
•Advise companies on day-to-day business issues, including corporate record keeping (preparation of Board of Directors’ and different shareholders’ meetings) and employment issues (draft employment agreements and internal regulations, termination of employees).
•Draft memorandums and pleadings in several litigations and cases of various nature and jurisdiction.
•Represent both plaintiffs and defendants in litigations before state courts, and experts department.
•Advise clients concerning business transactions, claims, legal rights & obligations.
•Gather evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions by such means as interviewing clients and collecting documents and data.
•Prepare and draft legal documents such as official deeds, patent applications, mortgage, warnings, contracts, etc.
•Conduct researches about the different rules, laws and legislation.

Working on a variety of cases that comprise civil law, corporate law, commercial law, labor law, and Social Security Law, in addition to:
•Conduct legal searches and studies, and interpret the laws.
•Draft memorandums and pleadings in several litigations and cases of various nature and jurisdiction.
•Analyze the probable outcome of cases using knowledge of legal precedents.
•Represent both plaintiffs and defendants in litigations before state courts, and experts department.
•Achieve the training term under the supervision of the Lawyers’ Bar Association.