Practice
Corporate and Commercial
In today’s dynamic business and regulatory environment for corporate transactions, you need a partner with knowledge and expertise to help you achieve your targets.
Our lawyers deal with all kinds of business issues and work with you to come up with practical solutions that help you keep value and control risk.
Our legal services in the corporate and transactional fields include: Commercial Contracts, Corporate Governance, Reorganizations, Joint Ventures, Privatization, Dispute Resolution, M&A, Emerging growth companies, Employee benefits and compensation, Franchise and distribution, Private equity/investment funds, Alliances and collaborations, Consumer Contracts, Secretarial services. Our lawyers understand that management and legal services can’t be separated. Therefore, we have a specialised and professional team of lawyers and management experts.
We establish all types of companies, including onshore and offshore, limited liability (LLC), joint stock, foreign branches, representative offices, and scientific offices. Further, we arrange for official licences such as manufacturer’s licences, tourism licences, hotel licenses, and import or export licenses.
Dispute Resolution
Our dispute resolution team has extensive experience of the procedural and substantive laws of Egypt. Our lawyers have the expertise and the required skills to represent clients at all stages of litigation, arbitration, ADR, and settlement negotiations.
Whatever the nature of your dispute – a complex domestic claim, multi-jurisdictional litigation, regulatory investigation. We have experience across a wide range of industry sectors to help you achieve a successful outcome.
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property rights nowadays are extremely valuable business tools, like any important asset for your business. We will help you to safeguard these rights with the appropriate forms of legal protection by complying with all legal requirements to register trademarks, designs or domain names.
Banking and Finance
Milestone Law Firm has broad experience and advises on all aspects of banking and financial laws and provides the full spectrum of financing transactions ranging from traditional financing, conventional and Islamic finance, to highly-leveraged and complex transactions.
We advise different commercial banks and financial institutions on all types of credit facilities, syndicated loans, asset finance, project finance, PPP finance, real estate finance, debt restructuring and cross-border financing. In addition, we advise on security and collateral.
The team also gives advice on a wide range of derivative transactions, such as interest rate swaps, foreign exchange hedges, option transactions, and commodity derivatives.
Insurance
The Egyptian market is a promising market for insurance practice. Considering the current economic formation, the insurance industry will be immensely flourished. Milestone Law Firm has outstanding experience in insurance. Our team handles a full range of insurance matters, from the routine to the most complex, and we have a depth of experience in that field. We advise Medical, Life, and Non-Life Insurance Companies, Reinsurance and Brokerage. We provide advice to all lines of insurance business, including property and casualty, life, accident, Third Party Administrator TPA, bancassurance, professional liability, financial lines, Directors and Officers “D&O” and Takaful.
Islamic Finance
Our Islamic finance specialists have extensive experience in structuring, documenting, and negotiating complex transactions and developing innovative Shari’ah-compliant techniques, including in relation to bank finance, regulation, project finance, hedging and swap transactions, funds and other structures, including sukuk issuances (both asset-based and asset-backed). Our knowledge and insights enable clients to successfully navigate the complexities surrounding these structures. We have built excellent relationships with the leading Islamic banks, Shari’ah scholars, and other market participants, such as rating agencies and investor funds.
Employment Law
Our employment team has substantial experience in dealing with the full range of employment-related issues, including, inter alia, litigation, as well as day-to-day HR issues, strategies, and policies. We do this in a way that is approachable, commercial and pragmatic. We work in partnership with you to resolve your issues in the best way for your business.
Milestone Law Firm works closely with companies’ in-house teams to ensure that all compliance-related matters and any risk associated therewith are mitigated in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Debt Collection/Restructure
It is more efficient to rely on professionals to handle business debt recovery in a timely and cost-effective manner. Milestone Law Firm understands how important it is for the client to collect the outstanding amounts and get their invoices paid in the shortest time possible, as this inevitably affects the company’s cash flow. When it comes to debt collection, Milestone Law Firm has dedicated and specialised lawyers who follow efficient processes and have strong negotiating skills.
Corporate Governance and Compliance
As with any business venture, it is vital that the right structure is selected to operate the venture. It is also important to ensure that each owner or shareholder’s rights and obligations are legally enforceable. The business structure adopted should be evolutionary, contemplating the entry and exit of shareholders and the possibility of external funding and business expansion. As a global trend, our team has extensive experience in the corporate governance of companies and corporate structure compliance. We have assisted in advising many businesses on compliance matters.
International Commercial Contracts:
Our commercial contract practise combines legal knowledge with deep cultural experience, covering the full spectrum of commercial and business law issues. When it comes to Egyptian or cross-border transactions, our lawyers’ expertise in Egyptian law and international experience working with European, American, and Arab clients from the region in other jurisdictions means we can handle both standard and sophisticated cross-border commercial transactions.
Our clients deal on a daily basis with a large number of relationships and contracts that bind them to their suppliers, customers, licensors, and distribution and other strategic partners. Our lawyers help structure these professional and business relationships and guide clients through the complexities of Egyptian law to ensure their contracts provide the necessary framework and exclude avoidable risks for their success.
We advise some of the world’s largest companies on all manner of business-critical national and international commercial transactions, among them sales, agency and distribution, joint ventures and collaborations (consortium), employment and management, manufacturing, logistics, licencing arrangements (franchise & technology transfer), and mergers and acquisitions, to name a few.
We have experienced, sector-focused lawyers who know the rules, business practices, and customs of Egypt as well as the foreign investor’s point of view. This means that through one law firm, both of these things can be taken care of.
Telecommunication and IT
Members of the firm have a lot of experience working with clients in the IT field. As a result, we can give clients advice on a wide range of corporate and regulatory issues.
In addition, we have deep expertise in conducting legal due diligence on IT companies and drafting transaction documents. The PLF service extends from regulatory advice (i.e., licencing and regulatory framework) to the negotiation and drafting of agreements with contractors and suppliers for acquiring IT systems or building internal IT networks, as well as giving advice on acquiring software and hardware from suppliers and contractors.
