international arbitration and complex litigation

square law firm have a long and expansive experience in arbitration working with major arbitration institutes and rules including: ICC, AAA, ICSID, DIAC, CRCIRA, and LCIA.

A sample of the international arbitration matters in which square law firm & Associates is involved

  • Acting in an ICC arbitration between one of the global powerhouses in electronics and electrical engineering and its local distributor in Egypt.
  • Representing a major global petroleum producer, as a defendant, in an ICC arbitration regarding breach of an agency agreement.
  • Represented a major Scandinavian petroleum services company in its EGP 60 million claim against an Egyptian joint venture company affiliated to Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) before Cairo Regional Center for Commercial International Arbitration (CRCICA).
  • Acted in an arbitration involving a global supermarket chain in an ICC arbitration involving cross-border insolvency issues.

A sample of complex litigations in which square law firm is involved:

  • Advising two French companies in relation to local proceedings for the revocation of the privatization agreements of publicly held cement production companies in Egypt. Complexity and sensitivity of such litigations require absolute coordination between the team members as well as with litigation teams of outside consultants.
  • Participating in the trial team representing a leading French company in its disputes related to industrial production licenses.
  • Participating in trial team representing one of the largest professional service companies as a defendant in a business tort claim incorporating multi-jurisdictions.

Corporate and commercial

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake Corporate and Commercial Transactions practice includes a wide range of capabilities from routine corporate matters to more complex and sophisticated business structuring and transactions. Corporate and commercial law and consultancy is our main specialization, which is why we deem it essential to excel in that field. Our team of lawyers is well experienced and knowledgeable to consult you on several issues including operations, transactions, and agreements. We also provide a contract drafting and negotiation service, to draft your contracts and negotiate their terms regardless of what type of contract it is.

Business transactions always come with difficult decisions to make, our team of attorneys and counselors are ready to advise and consult you on the most appropriate forms of business transactions in order to minimize the risk, taxes, etc. Those transactions may include import and export trading, whether on a daily basis or on a longer duration of time; with import and export it is essential that you be aware of the legal aspect of those transactions.

Our firm will provide you with the most comprehensive consultancy on such business transactions both legally and strategically in order for you to minimize the risks and maximize your profits.

Your day-to-day operations may also need consultation on the best forms of operation and business structure in order to gain the most efficient ways of daily operations and transactions, if mismanaged, a company may suffer from severe consequences

We offer a wide range of services to suit the needs of multinational corporations, publicly held companies, closely held corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, strategic alliances and business enterprises of all kinds including energy, banking, health care, retail, solid waste, information services, food services, service and distribution, real estate, and non-profit as well as financial institutions and investors including private equity and venture capital funds.

Experienced lawyers

Our experienced lawyers have diverse backgrounds and a broad array of skills and specialties, covering the full range of business services, including Contracts, Strategic partnerships and alliances, Mergers and acquisitions, Dispositions, restructurings, and turnarounds, Corporate formation and compliance, Special purpose entities, Real estate, Real property and equipment leasing, Licensing and Corporate reporting.

With all agreements comes risk, which is why contracts are necessary to ensure that your rights and duties are preserved, and in order to create those contracts a lot of negotiations are necessary to ensure that both sides of the agreement are content with the agreement. The drafting of the contracts includes among others negotiable instruments, commercial agency, distribution, franchising, commercial loan agreements, joint venture agreements and sale of goods. We also ensure that all agreements and instruments are registered with the competent authorities in order to ensure that all the agreements and instruments are legitimate and admissible in the case that a court is needed.

  • Consultancy on the most appropriate form of business transactions.
  • Consultancy on day to day operations and transactions.
  • Advice and consultancy on strategic transactional structures.
  • Formation and registration of all kinds of national or foreign capital investment companies.
  • Preparing and drafting joint venture agreements, articles of associations, shareholders agreements, decisions and other related corporate documents.
  • Formation and registration of branches and affiliates.
  • Structuring and organizing corporations.
  • Liquidation and dissolution of companies.
  • Consultancy and drafting of negotiable instruments.
  • Consultancy on foreign import and export trade.
  • Consultancy and drafting of commercial agency, distribution and franchising agreements.
  • Registration of all corporate agreements and instruments.
  • Consultancy and drafting of commercial loan agreements.
  • Consultancy and drafting of agreements related to importation and sale of goods, and other commercial agreements

Banking, Financing and Infrastructure

Banking and finance is one of the fastest evolving industries and is of immanent importance to the economy in general and businesses in particular. The means through which business is stabilized requires adequate solutions to help maintain their success and growth. If not though, the right, legal and financial advice and transaction documents, businesses would collapse and which would adversely affect the economies they are operating in.

Understanding the needs of the market and regulations, help us shape the proper framework of business models and offer advice on the most suitable finance products. Our understanding of industry requirements has allowed us offer expansive breadth of insight to our clients.

This is matched by our understanding of the business needs and high experience in managing financial transactions. This is carried out by clearly analyzing the potential risks involved over the short or long run, negotiating and mitigating them, is a key element for successful conclusion of any such deal.

Wide range of Banking & Finance services

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake offers a wide range of Banking & Finance services in diverse fields of the business, including but not limited to, advising local, national and international lenders, investors and borrowers concerning commercial lending and syndicated loans, finance lease agreements, Real estate construction and development loan agreements, infrastructure finance, projects finance, Mortgage finance, dispute settlement, Public Private Partnership (PPPs), Islamic finance concessions and public tenders law.

We have managed and handled numerous successful negotiations and drafted settlements and re-scheduling agreements with banks and borrowers. We are proud to have through successful negotiations and drafting the opposite agreements, led our clients succeed in their businesses and managed to lift some from total collapse to high success over the years.

When disputes arise, we try to control them and avoid resolving to litigation or arbitration. However, we have a highly qualified team consisting of counselors with high expertise in dispute settlement.

A sample of the deals we were involved in includes:

  • Square Law Firm acted as international counsel in connection with the rating and international bond issue of a major energy company
  • Square Law Firm acted as local counsel in advising a major Arabian Bank with Foods Company on an export credit facility.
  • Square law firm leading one of Deals Between an Arab-Egyptian bank and a food company to provide facilities to import production lines from Dutch companies for $ …… million.

Concluding and managing contracts

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake, has a long and vast experience in concluding and managing such types of contracts. Due to the risks curtailed with such deals, as they tend to be long term contracts, those deals, thus require clear and precise terms of the contracts that leave no space for ambiguity.

We believe that by working on the legal aspects of those projects, we can help make the project run smoothly and the partnership be well-brokered.

We have also high experience in dispute settlements resulting from such projects and have successfully gained several arbitral awards to our clients favor.

Criminal law

Square law firm acts as defender for our client at criminal issue related his Business , Or on its occasion For example:-

Tax issues Customs issues, Issues of insurance, and issues related to food companies As well as all issues related to investors, whether Egyptians or foreigners

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property is one of the difficult types of property to keep track and ensure the security of. Due to the level of innovation and amount of time and investment invested for its development, it is a valuable asset. There are however, ways by which you could ensure the security of your intellectual property.

We take a multidisciplinary approach to today’s emerging issues in the development, protection and exploitation of intellectual property asset. We offer you advice regarding the protection of your intellectual property, such as whether you will need to register it as such, how to deal with theft of intellectual property or if you would like to sell such property. We also provide you with the service of applying and registering intellectual property. Intellectual property comes in different forms and it may vary from a company’s name or logo to newly developed technology, or a new invention, so you may apply and register for patents, trademarks, and copyrights and we provide that service both domestically and internationally.

Protect your investment

If any of your intellectual property was stolen or the patent or copyrights breached we will be there to ensure that your patenting and copyright privileges are fully given back to you. We also help with drafting, negotiating, and maintaining technology transfer contracts in order to ensure that your intellectual property is safe with the business entities that want to utilize your product. We also can provide assistance with the drafting of claims of any patent in any technology sector.

We help our clients protect their investment, increase their market share and strengthen their competitive advantage. We are therefore regarded as a true interactive partner with every client we deal with.

Our specialized team includes consultation lawyers advising on all aspects of intellectual property law including related commercial issues, and trial lawyers experienced in litigation and enforcement actions.

We organize our intellectual property services into two main categories:

  • Conventionally:
    • Counseling
    • Enforcement and Litigation
    • Registration and Prosecution
  • Strategically:
    • Intellectual Property Audits and Due Diligence
    • Intellectual Property Licensing and Commercialization
    • Intellectual Property Management and Research
    • Intellectual Property Litigation

Employment & Labor

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake focuses on developing strategies and practices to minimize employee disputes and maximize legal options and successful results in the disputes that cannot be avoided.

Our capabilities include affirmative Action and Government Contractor Matters, Confidential Information, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Human Resource Counseling and Training, Litigation, Management-Side Labor Relations, Public Sector Employers, Reductions-In-Force, Worker Classification and other Wage and Hour Matters and unions disputes.

We have a dedicated Equality and Diversity team who focus on equal opportunities and discrimination issues. We handle the litigation arising from such situations, whilst also providing critical advice to clients on non-contentious in-house matters, with a view of avoiding court action in the future.

Active partner involvement

What you can expect from us is active partner involvement, clear communication and a keen focus on your individual commercial objectives.

We offer legally influenced strategies for your business, not simply isolated answers to specific legal questions.

Legal Consultation & contract & Mous & Shareholders' Agreement

Square Law Firm’s team specializes in providing instant legal advice to suit business and economic business

Our team also has legal expertise in all branches of law, especially with respect to companies operating in Egypt, the Middle east or internationally

Our team contributes to the drafting of all types of contracts and memorandums of understanding

Square law firm focus on providing general legal advice, contract drafting and negotiations. Our team work to support numerous legal departments in multinational and local companies with the different aspects of their legal need, Square Law Firm’s team drafted and reviewed hundreds of contracts including services, facilities, construction, commercial agency, distribution, joint venture, franchise, real estate development, sale, lease, license, settlement, shareholders agreement and manufacturing contracts, As well as the drafting of hundreds of memorandums of understanding, shareholder agreements and loan contracts

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

The litigation team of SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake handles diverse types of lawsuits, covering banking & finance, commercial transactions, construction, corporate matters, investment issues, labor issues, Customs issues , hotel management, oil & gas, maritime & shipping; mergers & acquisitions, pharmaceuticals, telecommunication and white-collar crimes.

Anti-Trust

Square Law Firm counsels on anti-trust legal matters, where it advises on compliance and preemptive measures, provides corporate advice and legal analysis of applicable laws, regulations and regional commitments, conducts training and acquaintance programs and represents entities and individuals in all related investigations and litigation claims. Square Law Firm’s team also handles regulatory notifications and approvals, as may be required in mergers and/or acquisitions.

Real state

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake provide real estate registration services, drafting of sale & purchase agreements and construction agreements We also advise mega contractors and developers on the legalities and licensing of commercial, residential, retail and touristic projects and developments. We further offer title checks and ownership diligence.

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake offers a comprehensive range of real property-related legal services for developers, builders, investors, owners, landlords, both institutional and private lenders and mortgage investment corporations.

Our Real Estate Practice Group provides a full range of corporate real estate services encompassing all aspects of property acquisitions, divestment, property-related joint-ventures, mixed developments, mergers and acquisitions involving real estate companies, leases and tenancies and the associated legal due diligence exercises

We regularly provide strategic advice on complex and high value property acquisition, financing transactions.

Our breadth of experience combined with extensive resources enables us to form a real estate team with the appropriate skills and expertise in providing advice of the highest quality.

Experienced real estate specialists

Our team is very dedicated and committed to working within short deadlines that clients are sometimes faced with. Our key areas of expertise include, acquisitions and divestments, all forms of single, multiple-family and condominium developments, developer and developer-group cost-sharing agreements, construction and development financing, project management and construction agreements, telecommunication access arrangements, syndicated property investments and commercial and retail leasing.

Our team also draws on the experience of the Business Law Practice Group to provide advice on structuring real estate co-investment or joint venture projects, raising capital, establishing an appropriate business vehicle and secured lending.

We can quickly assemble a multi-disciplinary team of experienced commercial real estate specialists to address a diverse range of real property needs.

Customs Law

The litigation team of SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake handles diverse types of lawsuits, covering banking & finance, commercial transactions, construction, corporate matters, investment issues, labor issues, Customs issues , hotel management, oil & gas, maritime & shipping; mergers & acquisitions, pharmaceuticals, telecommunication and white-collar crimes.

Anti-Trust

Square Law Firm counsels on anti-trust legal matters, where it advises on compliance and preemptive measures, provides corporate advice and legal analysis of applicable laws, regulations and regional commitments, conducts training and acquaintance programs and represents entities and individuals in all related investigations and litigation claims. Square Law Firm’s team also handles regulatory notifications and approvals, as may be required in mergers and/or acquisitions.

Mergers & Acquisitions

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake specializes in public and private mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, spin-offs, structuring, restructuring and post- acquisition integration. It offers its clients swift services backed up by a solid know- how and business understanding of such transactions. It offers in-depth legal due diligence services that assess the risk factors, recommend reports and rectification actions required and/or advisable. The team has a solid expertise in drafting and negotiation of all documentation required or customary for such transactions.

High quality legal advice

We deliver cost-effective, high quality legal advice. Our close-knit team of lawyers employs a common approach, which means we can handle cross-border deals effectively. We work hard at building relationships and our clients tell us that we deliver a level of service that very few firms can match.

With all agreements comes risk, which is why contracts are necessary to ensure that your rights and duties are preserved, and in order to create those contracts a lot of negotiations are necessary to ensure that both sides of the agreement are content with the agreement. The drafting of the contracts includes among others negotiable instruments, commercial agency, distribution, franchising, commercial loan agreements, joint venture agreements and sale of goods. We also ensure that all agreements and instruments are registered with the competent authorities in order to ensure that all the agreements and instruments are legitimate and admissible in the case that a court is needed.

Engineering , Telecommunications, Media & Technology

IT & Communication projects

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake offers wide range of advisory services includes assisting web services companies and internet service providers to establish entities in Egypt, negotiating and drafting agreements with contractors and suppliers for acquiring IT systems, Sale and Purchase Agreements for hardware and software products.

In addition to negotiating and drafting agreements with contractors and suppliers for acquiring IT systems, software development contracts, conducting legal due diligence on IT companies and drafts the transaction documents, licensing and user contracts for support services agreements.

Make Communication Easier

Information Technology and Communication projects are an essential part of today’s world, which ease the communications between communities, enterprises, and even different countries.

We believe that such projects are essential to support because they make communication easier, and work more efficient.

That is why we find initiative in working with IT and Communications projects and always give our best to help them establish their projects, maintain them and resolve any legal issues.

Food & Beverage

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake acted as national and international counsel of a major Food & Beverage Companies, Including acting all relevant issues, Especially labor issues And food fraud cases, And drafting all types of contracts, And review and establishment of the documentary of financial management, And all relevant documents.

Capital Markets

SQUARE Law Firm & Associates- Farag Eltrake developed a preeminent capital markets practice. It has been involved in sophisticated transactions. Our lawyers have advised deals of capital markets transactions in the last few years.