We virtually
advise on every area of commercial / business and civil law.
Lawyers combine a heritage of extensive practice and high academic and professional
qualifications. Our area of practice includes but not necessarily limited
to:
The type of work undertaken includes all legal aspects of commercial and companies business affairs such as: supply of goods and services; agency, distribution and franchising agreements; joint venture agreements; consortium agreements; corporate structuring; taxation; corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; privatization; and competition/anti-trust matters.
The Firm advises on literally all matters that stem from civil law such as: contracts; torts; professional errors and omissions; product liability; immigration and citizenship law, and tenancy law.
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) LAW
With Jordan becoming the Member 136 in the WTO, multinationals will have access to the Jordanian market and vice versa Jordanian entrepreuners will seek foreign markets. Khalaf Masa'deh & Partners provides first class advice to governments and multinationals on: Jordan's commitments in the WTO; the relevant national laws and regulations; and the current WTO legal regime including trade in manufactured goods (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT 1994), trade in services (General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS), intellectual property rights (Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights TRIPs), investment matters and performance requirements (Agreement on Trade-related Investment Matters TRIMs), technical and sanitary standards (Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade TBT) and Agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures SPS, and WTO dispute settlement mechanisms (Dispute Settlement Understanding DSU).
We also advise multinationals how to obtain good deals from regulatory authorities whether involving market access or commercial presence.
One of the major expertise of the Firm is investment and international trade law. We provide multinationals with legal advice on all laws and regulation relevant to their investments in Jordan including corporate structuring, corporate taxation, joint ventures, subsidies, allowances and exemptions, repatriation of capital and proceeds, free technology parks and export / free trade areas. We also advise foreign investors on Jordan's commitments under bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and other such international frameworks (i.e., ICSID Convention 1965), and how such commitments interact with the interests of foreign investors.
Furthermore we advise on all matters pertaining to international business transactions and international sales of goods contracts.
The Firm has been acting for banks and other financial institutions in various aspects of their lending and financing activities. Our services include but not limited to providing transactional support on the financing side of some of our corporate transactions; drafting credit facilities contracts of all types; drafting syndicated loans, syndicated guarantees and other types of special contracts; and E- commerce matters.
Khalaf Masa'deh
& Partners is the leading Jordanian Law Practice on all property matters.
The Firm has extensive experience of advising property occupiers, developers
and investors, financial institutions and national governmental organizations
as well as a wide range of public and private companies and commercial enterprises.
The work of the Firm covers all types of transactions relating to real estate
in Jordan and problems arising from its ownership. Thus, the work undertaken
includes:
With Jordan's accession to the WTO and as part of its commitments under the TRIPs Agreement, intellectual property rights have flown to the surface in Jordan causing thereby our Intellectual Property practice to grow rapidly. Our legal advice covers matters such as patens infringement, industrial designs, trademarks, copyrights, technology transfer contracts and their interaction with intellectual and industrial property rights, and the enforcement of intellectual property rights in Jordan.
The Firm advises on all matters stemming from Jordanian administrative law, especially the legality and justiciability of governmental / administrative orders and decisions. We also litigate cases before the High Court of Justice to set aside governmental decisions that adversely affect our client's interest.
LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
The Firm's core activity remains the conduct of litigation on behalf of our clients, and as importantly, advice on its prevention. The Firm handles proceedings in all Jordanian Courts of Law as well as claims before domestic and international arbitration tribunals. Our lawyers are also trained to use other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms such as mediation, negotiation, and early neutral evaluation.
We recognise the need of clients to use litigation as an effective means to protect their interests. To achieve this, we maintain with our clients a professional, open, and sincere relationship. Thus, at the outset we lay emphasis upon a client's need to consider the full implications of litigation before embarking on it. However, once we start arguing a case before a court, we work day and night to deliver the best results. Our overwhelming record of litigating some 5,000 cases is a clear proof of our success, the breadth of our experience, and our long list of clientele.
Khalaf Masa’deh & Partners energy practice brings together a wealth of extensive international experience and local knowledge in the energy industries. Having worked on almost all the energy projects in Jordan, we have gained a reputation as a leading law firm in the energy field in Jordan. Our clients include governments, regulators, utility companies, project developers and electricity project financiers.
Electrecity Regulation & Privatization
We pride ourselves for being the Jordanian legal practice, which heavily participated in articulating the new electricity regulatory structure of Jordan. As part of our duties in the privatization of the Jordanian electricity sector project, we advised on the formation of the new Electricity Regulatory Commission, the drafting of the new General Electricity Law No. 64 for the year 2002 and other secondary legislation, licenses and other regulatory instruments, transaction agreements, transfer schemes, guarantees, corporatisations and corporate restructuring, and commercialisations.
Projects
We have delivered advice on a variety of projects in the energy sector. This included Al-Samra Independent Power project; the Wind Plant Power project; privatization of the Electricity Distribution Company, the Central Electricity Generation Company and, Irbid District Electricity Company; the Transportation and Sale of Natural GAS from Egypt within Jordan; and regulatory and corporate advice to the National Electricity Power Company.
Our Business & Technical Approach
Our lawyers have developed unmatched skills in the energy sector both on the legal and technical levels. Adding more value to our practice, and being a business-oriented law firm, we support our legal capabilities by technical expertise provided by prominent associated human resources. Thus, not only we deliver on the legal side, we actually provide logistic support on the technicalities.
Project & Energy Finance
In addition to advising clients on legal, regulatory, technical, structural, and commercial issues in the energy field, Khalaf Masa’deh & Partners provides high quality advice on all aspects of financing energy projects regardless of their structures being BOT, BOO or BOOT. Our financing experience includes power stations, refineries and petrochemical plants, and oil and gas pipelines. Our services include raising finance in the capital market, preparing and reviewing concession agreements, undertaking asset leasing arrangements, undertaking risk analysis and allocation and insuring the bankability of the project.
Our Transactional Experience includes:
