Almuayed is a professional partnership of lawyers and business consultants, based in Libya. The practice of the Firm ranges in providing advice and other legal services in connection with major inward investment projects into Libya. Our mission is to provide a full range of legal services to businesses, investors, and foreign colleagues with similar practices. Should you need prompt and professional legal services in the jurisdiction of Libya, hence, ask Almuayed experts to render such services to you/ your client, and you will discover how proficient we are, and how your choice of Almuayed to help you in Libya was the right decision

Area of Practices

At Almuayed we pride ourselves on providing top quality legal consultation services through our professional staff specialized in various Areas of Practice.

General Areas

Arbitration
Almuayed has established an exclusive arbitration department to undertake the local and international arbitration cases to maintain our clients business in regarding with their disputes resolution, and focus on multinational disputes Almuayed is providing its clients with full arbitration service, including:

• The negotiation and drafting of the arbitration agreement whatever in the contracts or in sub-agreement
• Advising our clients to appoint their arbitrator
• Preparing the statements of claim or defense
• Undertaking the arbitration procedures (wherever local or international)

 

Construction

Almuayed has experience in construction law that is unparalleled in the Libya We provide a full range of services to owners/clients, prime contractors, construction managers, engineers, architects, subcontractors and material suppliers in matters invotlving breach of contract actions, changes/variations and claims for delay, disruption and loss of productivity. We also have extensive experience in drafting contract documents at every stage of the construction project process, from project conception through project completion

 

Contract

drafting In Almuayed there is special Dept. in the legal drafting headed by expertise counselor and senior lawyers. In this Dept. we provide our services in Arabic, English, French and Italy.

 

Corporate

Since the Firm was found till now it’s representing many multinational and Libyan corporations of various forms and systems. Our services in corporate issues is divided into the following: Drafting and negotiation of multinational companies agreements, joint ventures, agencies, branches, representative offices, acquisitions, mergers, distribution, offshore, free zone agreements. Matters relating to investment inward Libya, Almuayed undertake the advising regarding these investments from A to Z beginning with the benefit studies passing to advising about the best legal form to conduct through it these investments, seeking the best way you invest money in. Establishment and registration of all kind and forms of the mentioned features of corporations Advising these corporations when they conduct their business to maintain that not to breach any applicable laws and regulations. Undertaking the liquidation and bankruptcy procedures.

 

Finance

The firm has lawyers experienced in local and international finance laws, regulations and customs. They possess the knowledge and wisdom to complete even the most complicated transactions for corporate borrowers, commercial and investment banks, funds, financial institutions and governments. Almuayed offers a broad range of legal services related to financial aspects of business transactions in addition to agreements that are considered by the majority of professionals as requiring deep knowledge.

Immigration

The firm handles all legal services related to immigration law and regulations, including entering visas whether for business or visit in addition to exit visas.

Intellectual property

For the increasing importance of the value of intellectual property, Our services including copyrights, trademarks, know-how, industrial secrets, models and drawings.

Investment

Under Law (7) and beside the new direction of the Libyan government there are great opportunities of investment in Libya, therefore Almuayed provide full service in assisting foreign direct investment projects starting from legalizing and documentation of all the required documents, and obtaining investment licenses and operation licenses. The firm always keeps on good relationships with the Investment Authority and Ministry of Economy.

 

Labour

In Libya the direction is increasing toward the development of laws and regulations ruling the labor market in the country, starting from the formation of the employment contracts whatever singular or collective and its subsequent obligations and rights to the both employee and employer and their responsibility to any breach. And finally the means of disputes resolution to solve the disputes resulting from the employment contract and the guarantees of indemnification of damages.

In Almuayed we divide our efforts regarding to:

EMPLOYERS It’s widely known that the superior party in the employment relationship is the employer, but this words are not completely true, as the misunderstanding and wrong implementation of the legal rules that ruling the employment relationship may result many of liabilities and responsibilities upon the employer, here, our rule in Almuayed is emerging in advising the employer on the drafting and negotiation of the employment contract, passing to the drafting of the internal regulation of the corporation and advising employer on issues relating to organizing labor including workers unions and naturally defending employers against all claims.
EMPLOYEES In spite of all the guarantees stipulated by law to protect the employee from any abusively procedures that the employer may take against the employee’s rights, but the best using of these guarantees stipulated by law need an expert lawyer in labor law knowing how to use these terms in the best and fast ways to reach to the full benefit to employee. Therefore, Almuayed maintaining on the existence of high expertise lawyers in labor law.
LABOUR DISPUTES RESOLUTION There are many ways in labor disputes resolution; some of them may take years whereas other may take months or other may Take a few days to settle a dispute, so in Almuayed we following a specified mechanism and methods in the labor disputes resolution whatever in litigation, arbitration, dispute resolution committee or by settlement arrangements in order to get our clients rights in short time.

Litigation

The nature of litigation procedures in Libya which known by its complex and long duration to settle a dispute make the office depend in the litigation cases on counselors and senior lawyers with very high experience in this matters knowing all the formal procedures, that’s to reach to our aim from litigation in the less time possible.

Oil & Gas

The firm provide legal full legal services in the oil & gas filed. The Firm provides counsel and assistance to a wide variety of clients in connection with natural gas and crude oil engineering and construction issues, transportation, refining and marketing regulations and agreements, and general practice related to the energy field. The firm has well established communications with NOC and other governmental bodies in this field.

 

Personal Status & Family affairs

As it’s knowing in the whole world that the personal status & family affaires unless it undertaken by special office in this matters, it will be at least undertaking by expertise lawyer in these matters knowing all the rules and procedures relating to these matters therefore in maintenance with this standard Almuayed recruited counselor with senior and fresh lawyers to serve in Personal Status & Family affairs.

Our services are reflected in:

• Civil marriage arrangements
• Divorce, alimony and guardianship etc…
• Inheritance
• Filiations

Privatization

Almuayed provide professional legal assistance in privatization processes which occurs widely in Libya, we have lawyers help in documentation of offers and making due diligence of purchased entities.

Real estate

One of the most important sector that we in Almuayed take care about is the real estate sector, In Almuayed we provide a full service including drafting and negotiation of contracts and agreements of construction, sell, lease, mortgage in addition with estimating value, marketing and registration .

Tender and Administrative regulations

In our team there are lawyers expert in the field of public tendering and other administrative regulations. Almuayed provide many legal works needed by enterers to help them being in the ange of legal successive offers area.

Taxation

Almuayed depend on specified taxation policy and methodology starting with recruitment of tax expertise who is advising our clients on the best way to get the better benefit from the taxation system. For example: We advising our clients in the first step in their business on how to record their profits, losses, imports and expenditures in their own records and how to write their tax disclosure according to law, and in case a dispute arise out with authorities we undertake by our efforts to get the maximum benefit from these authorities to our clients.

 

Various services

GOVERNMENTAL LICENSES AND RELATIONS Because of the fact that, Almuayed attempting always when it recruits its crew to maintain on a specified percent of a former police officers, governmental officers and judges, that’s to keep on our relations network with all governmental authorities to serve our clients’ business without any delay or big loss because our clients put their trust on us.

CREDIT CONTROL Almuayed has the means, mechanism and the experience that qualifying us to collect debts owned by our clients whatever these debts considered lost in the point of view of their owner.

 

Tourism & Hotels

Tourism: Almuayed provide special services to tourism corporation and entities, that’s for the special nature of this field, whereas most of the clients in this field are multinational companies and foreign tourists, the case that request international standard in drafting and concluding of contracts and agreements, even in case a dispute arise out it will be settled probably by foreign litigation or arbitration tribunals, the case that request the existence of international lawyers with high experience and have a full knowledge with the foreign legal systems.

Hotels: Also Hotels are considered entities with special legal and practical nature, therefore we undertaking hotels work in special departments and give them a full service including drafting, negotiation and registration of their construction agreements and ongoing legal matters relating to the conduct of hotels’ business like governmental licenses and foreign workers licenses etc…