This group is involved in every aspect of corporate and commercial law. Beginning with the initial counsel concerning the most appropriate business structure, this department will counsel and supply services to enable the corporation to function and carry out its business in a legally sound and protected manner.Work done by this group includes:

• Counselling on the various forms of companies in different jurisdictions with attention to fiscal ramifications, setting up companies, doing name searches, obtaining necessary documents and licenses (Corporate structuring)

• Foreign investment (Foreign investment)

• Shareholder agreements (Shareholder agreements)

• Reviewing and negotiating contracts passed by companies in connection with every day business activities (Corporate counsel)

• Handling labour relations and arbitration including those at management and executive levels (Worker compensation)

• Director’s and officer’s liability (Corporate litigation)

• Intellectual property issues including: advising, researching, registration, renewal and prosecution of violations of trademarks, trade names, patents and copyrights for software, consumer products and industrial applications (Intellectual property)

• Tax planning in business transactions (Tax planning)

• Administrative and financial aspects of corporate reorganization (Corporate reorganization)

• Acting legal officers on the board of directors of many multinational corporations

• Counsel on telecommunication issues (Telecommunications law)

• Infrastructure privatization issues and DBOT, BOT and OT contracts and financing (BOT agreements)

• Securities law

• Corporate finance and asset securitization (Corporate finance)