Libra Law Firm offers all kinds of legal services and consultations for commercial companies, business enterprises, non-profitable institutions, organizations and any entity requiring legal advice related to its nature of business, activity, and the regulations of its legal relations with third parties. In addition to responding to any inquiry and providing the appropriate legal opinion for any case facing or impeding the functioning of Libra Law Firm’s clients. Besides, Libra Law Firm’s extensive experience in the business nature and scope of companies and businesses enables it to provide professional legal counsel and advices to avoid corporate losses and damages which may resulted by breach of law, regulations, or any related executive policies .
Libra Law Firm’s consultant team study legal case at hand with the outmost legal precision recognized in Libra Law Firm, and accordingly the client is notified about the time needed to prepare and deliver the appropriate legal response. Noting that Libra Law Firm is well known for accuracy and punctuality. Taking into account the special cases that require more in-depth research and study, and possibility of referring to other departments and institutions. Thus, the response time may differ. In case of extreme necessity and emergency, the consultations are processed and delivered within 24 hours. Due to keen interest about clients’ welfare, and to ward off any legal issue that may affect their rights, Libra Law Firm’s legal team is ever ready to answer clients’ needs whenever needed.
Libra Law Firm has an extensive experience in establishing all types of companies, establishments and facilities, whereas a professional team undertakes all required procedures ranging from drafting memorandum of associations, statutes and internal regulations, and representing the clients in front of all governmental and non-governmental entities, ministries, competent departments and sections departments. That is, the team follow up all procedures and details with professionalism due to the importance and the critical nature of the establishment process. We provide establishment services for commercial companies of all types:
- General Partnership Company.
- Limited Partnership Company.
- Limited Liability Company.
- One Person limited Liability Company.
- Holding company.
- Public joint stock Company.
- Private joint stock company.
- Free Zone Company.
- Development and Real Estate Investment Companies.
- Registrations of commercial agencies and stores.
- Establishment all types of Banks, currency exchange companies and offices in accordance with the laws and regulations issued by The Central Bank of Syria.
- Private universities and licensing for its affiliated teaching hospitals.
The legal and administrative experience in addition to the continuous follow-up on all laws and regulations governing the establishment of companies and business allow us to establish all types of companies, enterprises and economic projects of different legal activities in their optimal legal structure.
Libra Law Firm prepares all types of contracts, agreements and memorandums of understanding, in addition to studying all types of contracts and providing legal counsel in accordance with its governing laws.
Based on the concept "The contract is the law of the contractors” which is the legal basis for its counterparts, Libra Law Firm’s specialized team of consultants takes into consideration Libra clients’ rights as the fundamental starting point for the preparation, drafting and revision of the contracts and its technical addendums in a professional specialized manner with regards to the quality of the contents and the clarity of the contractual terms and clauses.
Among the Contracts the Firm drafts:
- Establishment contracts for commercial and civil companies.
- Lease and entrepreneurship contracts.
- Real estate sales contracts.
- Commercial Agency contracts in all forms, international and domestic.
- Barter, investment, loans and mortgage contracts.
- Employment and technical management contracts.
- Joint ownership and commercial agencies contracts.
- Merger, Acquisition and Partnership contracts.
- Cooperation agreements between customers and public entities and state ministries, and revision of the administrative contracts of all nature, origin and terms of reference. Such as supply, manufacture, occupancy, maintenance, public and private tenders, and redrafting and amendments as appropriate for each case in line with the applicable laws and regulations.
- Special contracts, whereas the specialized team prepares and organizes all types of agreements and contracts that are consistent with the spirit of the common will of the contractors and complies with the law and public order.
Libra Law Firm represents clients in front of all courts of different types and levels within the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and abroad, whether cases are civil, criminal, commercial, religious, labor, administrative, customs, real estate, cyber-crimes, agricultural relations or banking lawsuits. Therefore, Libra Law Firm’s team pleads, defends and organizes the memos for prosecution, defense memoranda, incidental requests, requests for temporary and execution seizure, requests for travel ban, expertise, and objections on judgments in all forms, such as appeal and cassation, and everything related to judicial administrative actions in front of all special courts, administrative courts and government bodies and the arbitration centers in the Syrian Arab Republic and abroad. Moreover, Libra Law Firm commits to provide periodical reports to clients on the progress and functioning of the litigation procedures of their cases.
Additionally, in litigation, Libra Law Firm’s lawyers, each according to their specialty and area of expertise, follow-up each case carefully and diligently with their best efforts, care and expertise to preserve the clients’ rights. Libra Law Firm’s success in many judgments and verdicts in particular cases is the best proof.
Libra Law Firm’s clients, companies, institutions, and enterprises whose business activities require market study and preparing plans before launching business have the chance to start their operations via hosting their companies with the Firm for six months period renewable to a similar period. The Hosting services include:
The completion of the licensing procedures and the issuance of business license under a temporary address which is Libra Law Firm’s own address
Mailbox, phone and fax, secretarial work, e-mail services, meeting room and other supporting services necessary in the startup phase.
This service also includes all kinds of legal support required during the hosting period.
Libra Law Firm specializes in protecting and registering trademarks and intellectual property, patents, industrial designs and models, and provides all related legal advices. In addition to Libra Law Firm’s experience in this field, it is an accredited agent to the Directorate of Protection of Intellectual Property in the Ministry of Economy. And in the light of international and regional legal revolution in the field of trademark protection, Libra Law Firm strived to find and develop the legal and technical ways and strategies to achieve this. Libra Law Firm provides the following services:
Protection of trademarks and industrial designs :
• Registration of trademarks locally and internationally.
• Registration of industrial designs and models locally and internationally.
• Depositing registration applications.
• Appeal against rejection decisions.
• Follow-up on the brands, models and industrial designs official journal.
• Renewal of protection period.
• Amendments, transfer of ownership and utilization of licenses.
• Disputes and litigations related to trademarks and models and industrial designs.
Patents:
• Registering patents locally and internationally.
• Translation: translating the full description of the patent subject and the Manual to Arabic language by specialized translators.
• Depositing applications for registration.
• Appeal and attending Appeal Committees.
• Patents Renewal.
• Patent ownership transfer and modification.
- Intellectual property and copyright Protection:
Libra Law Firm aims by providing services to protect the authors’ rights to the advancement of all ways to protect copyrights and printing rights and the rights of artists such as actors and musicians in their line of work and broadcasting organizations rights, and to achieve an optimal level in all kinds of protections in this area,And the most important services include the following:
Registration and deposit of intellectual and literature and artistic works.
Appeal against the rejection decisions.
Renewal of the protection term, modification and relinquishing the rights.
Disputes and Litigation:
Libra Law Firm is distinguished for having team of lawyers specialized in disputes and litigation related to trademark, industrial designs, patents, intellectual property whether patent infringement, implementation of seizing orders on counterfeit goods or to delete registered trademarks unjustly, and all activities related to the defense of intellectual property rights.
The maritime trade and shipping is one of the most important business transactions around the world. Therefore, Libra Law Firm performs all legal transactions related to maritime activities and the resulting disputes, conflicts, agreements and contracts, and offers a greater availability in the legal expertise compatible with the speed of procedures and decision-making in marine and accomplishing it in the proper legal way. Libra Law Firm manifests its services in the maritime domain and issues associated with the following:
• Bill of shipping disputes.
• Maritime accidents and injuries.
• Maritime accidents and injuries.
• Sea, air and road freight business and the transfer of hazardous materials.
• Disputes concerning condition on freighting ship lease.
• Accidents and natural disasters.
• Work on board ships, crew wages, the consequent responsibility of the ship crew and the ship owner and the issues related to insurance against potential risks and marine insurance.
• Debt collection.
• Transfer of goods, loading, unloading services, and logistical support services.
• Marine Insurance, claims for insurance on the ship structure and its equipments and Maritime Rescue suits.
• Seizure of Ships.
• Ship building and maintenance contracts.
• Financing ships and certification contracts.
• Insuring ships procedures.
• Port legal fees, and ship confiscation.
Libra Law firm’s specialized legal staff prepares and drafts memorandum of associations for companies and institutions in line with the applicable laws and regulations.Moreover, the staff prepares all documents related to the registration of workers, employees and managers at the directorates of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.Besides, the firm offers drafting of collective and individual employment contracts and governing contracts for work and employment and offers professional advice in accordance with the provisions of the law.
Furthermore, Libra Law firm’s staff follow-up on litigation procedure and settlement of labor disputes before the competent courts. In addition to the follow up on issue of residency permits of all kinds (ordinary, temporary or special) and its renewal accordingly with its governing law, and the decisions and forms issued by the Ministry of Interior, and providing the necessary legal services for Arab and foreign workers and assisting them to obtain the required licenses from the Ministry of Labor, which include permission to work within the Syrian territory and according to the conditions for the organization of the work for non-Syrian Arabs stipulated in the labor law.
Libra Law Firm puts its expertise in tax legislation and procedures, and its knowledge in the laws applicable to the financial community at the disposal of its clients, offering:
- Counseling and legal advice in all matters related to the tax dues from a legal standpoint.
- Clients representation in front of the departments of finance, and following up and completing all procedures required by the Ministry of Finance and the taxes and fees authorities, follow-up on settlements or objections to the mandate before the revision committees, and resorting to the administrative court system competent to resolve all tax disputes.
- Notifying and keep the clients updated on new regulations, decrees and laws related to taxes and fees.
Libra Law Firm represents its clients in arbitration cases of all kinds, whether the arbitration is related to the dispute of administrative contracts, commercial arbitration, or international commerce, in front of all arbitration institutions and permanent centers or others, noting that Libra Law Firm is characterized with its flexibility and expertise in arbitration cases.
Libra Law Firm holds a long track record of experience and success in negotiation, mediation and conflicts resolving amicably between disputing parties. Whereas the specialized Libra negotiating team uses its wide-ranging experience to reach practical solutions and agreements that protect the client interests. Afterwards, to draft and to document these agreements and memoranda of understanding. Furthermore, the team is characterized by its large negotiating expertise, integrity, hard work, the ability to assess the legal position, and to find innovative solutions to resolve conflicts.
Libra Law Firm has a vast practical experience sufficient to protect and preserve all rights related to real estate property from any violation, through the appropriate legal phrasing of the ownership agreements, partnership agreements, usufruct rights agreement, and lease contracts, including studies all kinds of special dispositions and documents related to real estate, commercial or residential transactions.
Libra Law Firm’s team also verifies the availability of all the necessary requirements related to the ownership of non-Syrian Arabs and foreigners, in accordance with the provisions of the law of foreign ownership and the executive instructions governing it.
Libra Law Firm follows up continuously and periodically on the latest laws and decrees, regulations, decisions, judicial interpretations issued by the competent authorities in the Syrian Arab Republic and the judicial authorities, and prepares researches and legal studies around and about the legal developments in the various branches of law. In addition to preparing legal studies and opinions on demand in areas sought by the clients. This was a glimpse of our services, whereas Libra Law Firm is distinguished through teams of lawyers, consultants and technical staff by providing customized legal services for each client individually to suit the nature and individuality of their business.
Libra Law Firm’s teams understands and recognizes the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of the information, data and documents which they have access to during the delivery of services to clients, and undertakes in writing, to limit the use of this information and data in the purpose of solely performing the assigned work, which shall preserve the rights of the client, and they are committed to, during and after the completion of this work, not to disclose any data or information or documents. Libra Law Firm uses the latest and best electronic software especially designed for the nature of the legal work and that are adequate with the needs of its clients. Finally, and originating from the ethics of the legal profession, Libra Law Firm‘s care for its clients, the company gives special attention to all legal and administrative details for its clients to achieve success altogether and continuity with legal intact paces.