Services
Legal Opinions and Advice
The Client may seek the Law Firm’s Legal Opinion before taking any decision or on existing matters. From there, we provide a legally motivated opinion basing on laws in force considering possible updates. After consultation with the client, the Law Firm shall provide a legal advice on any matter brought by the client. We have experience on how laws are interpreted and the position of judges on different law fields as our team has the particularity of having worked in case law reports in Rwanda whereby analysis of significant case laws is made.
Legal Drafting
We provide to client’s templates for daily use of legal documents including employment and other contracts with their clients, internal tools, MoU with stakeholders, articles of the company, different communications tools: letters, notices, etc. We previously did the same to different international and local institutions and we continuously provide support depending on specific cases.
Legal Due Diligence
We conduct the legal due diligence in any legal domain on behalf of the client and helps to take an informed decision basing on reliable legal information resulting from the research conducted by our staff. In areas where we may have limited ability, we may seek assistance from other specialists (Engineers, Accountants, Medical Doctors, etc).
Litigation/Disputes management
We intervene in taking much care to prevent disputes with any person through the daily legal advice but where the dispute arises, we shall advice the client on the best way to take advantage in that case. Out of court settlement shall be encouraged but the client will be represented where the case reaches courts of law. We warrantee that our client’s interests are protected at high level and avoid any trace of conflict of interest and any situation/circumstance jeopardizing our client’s interests.
Deals negotiation
Many Clients commit a number of mistakes while negotiating their contracts but the presence of our member in the negotiating team shall help avoiding legal mistakes in deals of our client. We accompany our clients in negotiation of different legal transactions and drafting of resulting contracts.
Legal representation and assistance
We represent and assist our clients before administrative, judicial and any other institution and always work for the best of our clients. No Client has ever regretted our presence for their interest and their recommendation enables us to gain many new clients. Upon completion of the mission, we draft an activity report to the client in Kinyarwanda, French or English depending on the client’s preference.
Consultancy
We successfully conducted many consultancies and deliverables were highly appreciated by clients and that is a result of a dedicated effort of our experienced lawyers and the external supporting staff recruited on merit basis. We work on legal reports, legal translation and legal drafting. Legal audits may also be conducted on request of the client.
Company Incorporation and Business
We deal with incorporation of any type of company as provided under Rwandan law and advice on the regulation of relationship of shareholders, BoDs, company employees,… their registration in different state organs as well as the registration of any other kind of business in Rwanda, both for local and overseas investors. The specialization in this field is the effectiveness and efficiency of our services among which some are carried out in few hours using electronic expertise of our staff
Property law matters
Recognized as one of the commercial law best performer in Rwanda, we deal with commercial and residential property conveyancing focusing on providing legal services across the full spectrum of the commercial and residential property matters. We provide services to both local and international investors in the elaboration of different contracts including the leasing and purchase of both commercial and residential houses and provide related legal advice to investors
Tax matters
We handle all taxation law related matters for small and large businesses and corporations including providing the legal advice on the tax regime. We follow up all tax laws compliance for the company and assist/represent them before tax authorities (RRA) for different tax procedures and before courts where cases are brought to courts for determination by or against our clients.
Arbitration and Mediation
We have long experience in arbitration and mediation and other ADR in general which empowers us to effectively represent our clients where the out of court settlement of disputes is preferred. Some of our partners can be appointed as arbitrators as they are certified arbitrators.
Other Legal Services
After consultation with the Law Firm’s team, we shall offer any other legal service not covered under the least highlighted services offered by our Law Firm depending on the needs of the client. We represent clients in other fields of law including but not limited to criminal law, tort law, investment law, corporate law, labor law, etc.