Blessing Law Firm

BLFCA has a distinguished history of advising some of the most prominent, domestic and foreign private corporations and clients in their day-to-day corporate activities.

Our global corporate practice provides clients with advice and support on all corporate requirements – including restructuring, company law, governance, venture capital, buyout and investment funding and other legal and financial regulatory requirements.

We have extensive experience in all areas of commercial contracts, including agency, distribution, sales, marketing and franchising, licensing and investments. Moreover, we handle domestic and international contracts and sub-contracts (FIDIC). Our lawyers combine technical sector expertise with creative crafting innovative contractual solutions.

Our clients benefit from our ability to flag the potential pitfalls unique to each jurisdiction and offer vital and specific advice on avoiding or minimizing their negative impact.

We facilitate the establishment of new domestic and cross-border corporate transactions and joint ventures. We also counsel businesses on their ongoing contractual relationships with domestic and international customers, suppliers, and distributors.

We handle a variety of international business transactions on behalf of many domestic and international clients, representing companies of all sizes, and have in-depth experience in representing industry leaders in complex transactions. We work closely with our Litigation, Finance and Tax Practices to deliver a customized, comprehensive legal “solution package” for each specific engagement.

Corporate: Joint Ventures

BLFCA, corporate practice has multi-industry experience of handling the entire joint venture activities sequence, from inception to final agreement, spanning many industries.

We advise internationally on the creation, operation and termination of the joint venture agreements and strategic alliances which are increasingly favored as business models move away from outright ownership, we implement a legal framework maximizing the benefits our clients obtain from the sale of their products and services

We add value by combining our experience of structuring joint venture vehicles with other relevant legal expertise in related fields.

Clients will benefit from our immense experience of complex cross-border deals and multi-jurisdictional projects. BLFCA provides a conversant international and inclusive view of the legal and structural issues involved in such alliances.

BLFCA has considerable expertise in the analysis of joint ventures in support of the syndicates and their internal counsel, or with individual investors. We characterize the business in terms of its financial status, due diligence, tax and, and advice, as appropriate, on their significance and optimization., supporting clients through the entire planning and execution process.

Real estate is a key practice area and a hallmark for BLFCA and we support clients operating in all sectors of the real estate industry.

BLFCA has extensive experience in orchestrating complex real estate services. The BLFCA capability to swiftly and competently provide legal services in structuring cross -border investments and transactions is prominent.

Our real estate team has broad experience advising on real estate investments across a wide range of jurisdictions mainly focused on the MENA and G.C.C regions. We have advised on a few high-profile real estate disposals and acquisitions, acting for corporations, investors, individuals and real estate investment subsidiaries.

BLFCA provides fully integrated real estate services from lawyers who have been independently recognized for their real estate acumen and capability to deliver top-notch advice where required with a focus on MENA and G.C.C jurisdictions. Our aspiration is to provide a value-added service to our clients, by delivering appraisals, resolving predicaments, advising our clients and closing transactions as promptly and advantageously as achievable.

BLFCA clients profit from our long-term experience and expertise in drafting legal instruments, negotiation tactics, steering legal and regulatory issues and litigation.

Practice Scope

BLFCA Real Estate Practice Group advises lenders, developers, investors, borrowers, property owners and tenants on:

• Real estate development.
• Real estate acquisitions and dispositions.
• Land use.

Acquisitions and Dispositions

Conventional real estate purchase and sale transactions are a momentous part of our real estate practice. BLFCA advises buyers and sellers all over MENA and G.C.C jurisdictions in transactions concerning sales and acquisitions of major properties as well as midsized of every asset class on both a portfolio and individual property spheres. We have in-depth Knowledge in the fundamental specific prerequisites of transactions across a wide range of property types including residential, commercial, mixed use, industrial, hotels and resorts, office buildings, shopping centers, and development rights. We are also experienced in representing individual clients who had their private property confiscated through expropriation for public use by governmental agencies and seek prompt, adequate, and effective compensation in return.

BLFCA frequently counsel’s clients on structuring, financing and appraisal of a variety of real estate acquisitions and dispositions, as well as providing the requisite support on all legal aspects of acquisitions or dispositions. Our recognition of the dynamics and feasibility of real estate transactions and the prerequisites and prospects of our clients yields a solution customized to each client’s specific situations and prerequisites. We also consistently counsel clients on the tax and other repercussions of unconventional transaction structures, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional investment transactions, and can ensure Sharia – compliance where this is a requirement.

BLFCA real estate legal expertise covers:

• Conveyance – the acquisition and disposal of all variety of property, meeting any due diligence requirements. including complete due diligence practice.
• Leasing arrangements (short and long term for residential, commercial and retail) and all aspects of legal landlord and tenant relationship.
• Real Estate Management.
• Advising on Real Estate Financing.
• Real Estate dispute resolution encompassing Litigation and Arbitration.
• Project launch together with the licensing and registration of developers, projects and property and advising on the rules (and providing assistance) in opening escrow accounts.
• Advising on the formation of mixed-use developments with jointly owned property.
• Drafting all real estate related documents such as sale and purchase agreements, sub-divisions, leases, joint venture agreements and evasion and other legal notices.
• Advice on the development potential and pitfalls of the property being acquired.
• Planning legislation and procedures.
• Limited partnerships, offshore trusts and other tax-efficient vehicles.

Land Use, Planning and Zoning

BLFCA has a zenith performance in zoning; planning and land use with stress on large projects and maintains the adequate breadth and depth of experience to address the multitude of concerns that might encounter our clients that allow them to categorize and synchronize each project in a mode best-suited to meet the clients distinctive requirements within the framework of a particular development project.  Our lawyers are familiar with the particulars of urban land use legislation.

BLFCA recognizes that efficient legal representation in terms of land use clients entails mutual methodical comprehension of the following dynamics: applicable laws, legislative repercussions, and political constraints. We are conversant in handling on behalf of our client’s tactical consultations on obtaining zoning, site plan, subdivision and other required development approvals, negotiating and obtaining approval of complex developments, advising clients on sustainability, and handling various other land use, planning, and zoning-related matters.  As part of this process we of course negotiate, draft, and obtain and maintain approval documentation for our clients and perform regulatory due diligence and entitlement examination.

BLFCA, lawyers have acquired special expertise in the hotel and leisure industry and can advise clients on hotel management contracts and licensing catering, and concession agreements. We have considerable practice in obtaining permission and zoning endorsements for new hotels and expansions of existing hotel and leisure ventures. BLFCA, lawyers, regularly represent clients in disputes over the applicability of exclusivity articles and other restraining covenants.

BLFCA lawyers have hands on experience and technical and business insight to advise on complete assortment of licensing affecting patents, copyright, trademark and license, franchise, distribution agreements. We have considerable know-how in litigating intellectual property issues and probable infringements, our client’s apprehension to amplify business icon ultimately boosts the significance of their intellectual property assets and triggering considerable revenue.

BLFCA provides intellectual property due diligence investigations when intellectual property assets are developed, acquired, sold or shared and furnishes pertinent technical support.

BLFCA’s center of attention is allocated to case arrangement on the imperative attributes and performing a comprehensible policy to attain those objectives. We advise our clients if such prospects subsist in reaching those objectives through engagement in an amicable means without trial by way of settlement or alternative dispute resolution.

IP Services

BLFCA’s selected Intellectual Property lawyers work directly with clients to develop, manage and protect valuable associated intellectual property benefits including licensing and supplementary agreements to facilitate capitalization and the assessment of our clients’ novelties. We undertake a complete variety of services on behalf of our clients for products and servicesparticularly in the MENA and G.C.C jurisdictions.

Our Services Cover:

Industrial Property

• Trade names, Patents, Industrial Designs and Trademarks
• Searching, registering and renewing Trademarks and Patents filing on local and regional scales.
• Commercial exploitation of Trademarks by means of licensing and franchising.
• Enforcement of Trademarks and Patent rights.
• Attainment, Upholding and Protection of Trade names.
• Protection Trade Secrets.
• Drafting and implementing non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements.

Our lawyers counsel on diverse multilateral agreements of WIPO, WTO and other Pan Arab Trade Agreements.

Our lawyers handle cases associated with Copyright, Industrial Designs, Patents, Trademarks, and Trade secrets legal actions including litigation in said segments.

Copyright

• Registrations of all forms of copyrights and associated rights. Moreover, we counsel our clients on the registration of copyrights on a national, regional and international scale.
• Negotiating, drafting and consulting on copyright agreements.

Distribution of copyrights through licensing.   

Our legal document drafting and analysis services include a wide range of tasks, such as document review, legal research, and drafting of legal documents and contracts. The goal of our legal document drafting services is to reduce costs and improve efficiency for our clients. We are staffed by qualified lawyers and other legal professionals who work remotely to complete the legal work for our clients. Our areas of expertise include drafting legal pleadings and litigation-related documents. We prepare pleadings for the review of trial attorneys. Our services relate to Legal Drafting and Contract Review Services as our team of legal consultants and business lawyers are well qualified and experienced and possess one of the best drafting skills which helps our clients in granting them protection and to claim rights before courts in case a dispute arises. We understand that the best way of addressing risks in commercial relationships is by putting in place robust legal contracts which set out the position upfront rather than leaving it to chance which will make a dispute more likely and more costly. Our consultants are well qualified to handle the drafting of different type of legal documents ranging from a profundity legal analysis to legal articles, legal research or memoranda, and ensuring the receipt of your drafts within a short timeframe.

Doing business may be associated with the likelihood of disputes arising between business partners, a matter that is deemed prominent in recurrent trade transactions.

Dispute resolution might engage probable remedies, and it can also entail reconciliation attempts, which should be conducted in such a way as to avoid compromising or constraining any future legal proceedings at court, should these prove to be necessary. BLFCA’s lawyers have the capability to assist with assessing and managing the risks involved in a dispute. We identify and interpret the relevant dispute resolution clauses in any existing agreements, which will often form the basis for later negotiations conducted on behalf of our client.

ADR practice at BLFCA is tailored to furnish consultations on a broad variety of organizational and individual businesses. One of the significant aspirations of our ADR practice is to permanently assure and promote symmetrical relevance amid business operations.

BLFCA lawyers are familiar with the governing laws and regulations per concerned jurisdiction within the MENA and G.C.C region(s) and are expert in avoiding litigation and employ overriding legal instruments of alternative dispute resolution and arbitration mechanisms whenever possible.

BLFCA’s regional arbitration practice covers both MENA and G.C.C., and provides the following consultant services:

1. Arbitration, Mediation, and early neutral valuation.
2. Conflict management systems for public and private companies.
3. Comprehensive intellectual property lawsuit management and judgment.
4. Winding up disputes in harmony with the homogeneous Dispute Resolution guidelines.

BLFCA lawyers have solid and dedicated employment practice interrelating in issues impacting labor law concerns and litigation, employment termination and benefits, and associated contractual matters, sequentially to support its corporate clients. Our lawyers represent clients from a broad array of business sectors and support equally medium and smaller projects to engage in local and international cross-border employment concerns incorporating employment law compliance and regulatory issues per involved jurisdiction.

We, represent individual employees in cases of dismissal, miss-treatment, or to answer questions about legal privileges and responsibilities.

We have extensive experience in commencement of clients’ advancement of employment policy documents and forms in compliance with legal requisites, the conciliation and drafting of employment agreements, arbitration and litigation. Moreover, we counsel boards and propose blueprints to avert potential discrepancies and an ability to tailor solutions by drafting employment agreements that incorporate confidentiality and competition, clauses, severance compensation, social security structures, taxation, intellectual property and trade secrets protection. Our Employment practice sustains local employers and employees, additionally, foreign corporations with regional offices within the MENA and G.C.C jurisdictions.
Our Employment lawyer’s engage in innovative, resourceful and efficient alternative dispute resolutions and comprises a significant part of the service and value that we offer in the employment law field.

Our lawyers maintain in depth understanding on how to foster our clients’ interests through the resolution of disputes in an amicable, quick and cost-effective approach and providing requisite counseling via pragmatic and commercial litigation alternatives within a reasonable time limit contemplating equilibrium of our clients’ commercial significances adjacent to the various legal alternatives accessible to them.

BLFCA defends Its clients’ interests throughout practical litigation, we endow with pre- counseling endeavors to avoid going through litigation procedures whenever probable and we also realize the significance of proper and rapid conclusion of litigation and if litigation becomes apparent to minimize the need for judicial or administrative involvement. We coordinate and cooperate with correspondents in relation to disputes occurring across MENA and G.C.C jurisdictions. Moreover, our litigation practice permits us to confer our clients with experienced and advanced litigation approaches and tactics in cost-efficient conduct.

Our litigation practice supports both individuals and corporations across a wide assortment of business disputes and civil litigation; we represent equally local and foreign entities in diverse categories of legal disputes at all judiciary ranks and divisions.

Our litigation practice covers:

• Corporate and Commercial litigation.
• Real estate litigation.
• Employment litigation and labor disputes.
• Civil responsibility and liability claims.
• Joint venture disputes.
• Franchise disputes.
• Business Disputes and fraud.
• Intellectual property/trade secrets.

BLFCAfurnishessophisticated legal advice on the various aspects of taxation involved in commercial transactions, employment taxes, real estate taxes, VAT, corporate revenue tax, tax exemptions, customs duties and other indirect taxes and litigation. Our tax service incorporates both individual and corporate spheres and on a local and regional scale.

We represent our clients before all delegated local governmental tax agencies directly or manage and operate our client taxation affiliated law firms on the regional scale as per applicable laws and regulations governing said jurisdiction and rendering periodic reports.

BLFCA counsel’s businesses on any pre-tax prerequisites as well as engaging in the process of liaising with allocated local and regional investment promotion boards according to subject jurisdiction.