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Legal services
Smart Lawyer for Legal Counsel, attorney and legal auditing offers comprehensive legal services where
its team has experience that helped it to address the complex and diverse matters and face them; those
matters relating to establish, structure and manage the commercial activities in Iraq.
Our understanding of the requirements, challenges and goals of the business is the foundation, finding
moderate solutions for our customers; also, our mission is to provide solutions to the most difficult
challenges facing the business and offer help to succeed.
In order to facilitate the achievement of the
goals, we build, formulate, make and reconsider all the necessary documentations relating to your
commercial activities.
We also help you to resolve disputes related to both negotiation and mediation
Insurance Law
Smart Lawyer offers a comprehensive range of legal services in the insurance field as our company provides
consulting and representing insurance companies and their customers in all areas of the insurance, those
services include: marine and traffic obligations, transportation fees, imposed fees on the cargo, as well as
business obligations.
Customers Services for Companies
We are proud that we have a wealth of experience and knowledge of knowing the laws and regulations in Iraq and Kurdistan Province as also proud of our knowledge of local legal and economic market and laws governing it, habits and all changes and modifications that occur at the laws.
Construction and real estate
We represent our clients in high-level real estate transactions from the beginning of buying apartments
and villas even to draft and prepare endorsements to develop major real estate projects and manage
these projects by international staff and provide funds and credits. We also provide legal services include,
for example, not exclusively:
1- Offering advising to construction development companies, the contractors and subcontractors in
connection with contracts and agreements for major construction projects, as well as management
disputes related to construction.
2- Reviewing and drafting of leases and agreements of commercial nature.
3- Representation of landlords and tenants in disputes before the competent authorities.
Commercial Companies Law
We perform a number of high-profile commercial and advisory practices related to companies. We offer
service of full commercial companies’ law for Iraqi and international commercial companies;whereas our
team of lawyers holds business ideas and have experience on a large scale of various sectors.
This becomes practical legal advice with a value-added. The services that we offer within this context:
1- Establishing consultation.
2- Establishing operations and registration of local or foreign companies of all kinds.
3- Legal representation and open market for foreign companies in Iraq and the Kurdistan Province.
4- Free Zones.
5- Structuring and restructuring of Groups.
6- Commercial agency law.
7- Concession.
8- License.
9- Labor law.
10- Mergers.
11-Purchasing processes.
12- Liquidation of companies and legal procedures of liquidation.
Banking and financing
Our company offers advice and assistance to its clients regarding all aspects of financing and banking in
Iraq, where the team of lawyers who works for us has a great deal of familiarity with this aspect,Smart
Lawyer also offers advice to lenders and borrowers in connection with the organization and completion
of documenting and financing transactions that include the following:
1- Underwriting and joint loans.
2- Guarantee and loan agreements.
3- Drafting of forms and agreements.
4- Recovering debts.
Recovering debts
We specialized in personal and business debt recovery; as everyone knows the recovery of the debt is a
big problem, the legal advisers frequently make inadequate effort to find comprehensive solutions for
the problem, for this reason we have established a new section dedicated only to debt recovery, we are
dealing with each individual case separately and formulate plans based upon each case. The following are
the results of our own actions in this regard:
1. The Settlement: first team debt recovery that works for us tries to dissolve the subject in a friendly
way, and if that does not help, the team moves to the second step which is to send a legal notice to the
borrower party.
2-The litigation: If the first step has not achieved the desired results our legal team takes up the matter;
specialized lawyers team can address the matter in civil and criminal cases successfully, the team is
selected based on their previous experiences in debt recovery issues by available legal means to them
and they take actions on those issues immediately, the customers are informed of the latest procedures
in the legal process, our customers enjoy comprehensive legal service covers all implementation and
arbitration and dispute resolution methods.
3- Implementation: winning the case is not enough, as the actual win is achieved by the recovery of funds,
based upon our implementation team take some special steps to make sure on the judicial ruling, and
so offers a comprehensive and effective approach that we follow offers the best solutions of the debt
recovery problems.
The intellectual property
The Smart Lawyer specializes in registration and protection of intellectual property rights that a team of
lawyers who has expertise on protection and promotion of intellectual property as a valuable business
savings will help you. The company’s practices in relation to intellectual property extend to include:
1- Trademark law.
2- Copyright.
3- Registration of trademarks and patents.
Financial insolvency
Provide advisory services for the liquidators and receivers and creditors administrators in case of
insolvency and financial services include the following:
1- Receipt and management.
2- Liquidation and optional agreements.
Labor Law
Smart Lawyer provides a wide range of legal services in all aspects of labor law special to the State of Iraq
in general and Kurdistan Province of Iraq in particular, these includes consulting in complaints brought
before labor courts and provide all assistance to both sides (Employers and Employees) before the Iraqi
judiciary and the judiciary in the Kurdistan Province
Business and investment consulting
Our lawyers have experience in dealing with trade and investment threads, they have extensive experience
in large and complex sectors and the changed experience to legal, practical and valuable advice. Smart
Lawyer Co. offers tips to its customers in all trade and investment areas of law, and this includes:
1- Tips in the establishment and licensing of businesses.
2- The registration of foreign and local companies.
3- Establishing factories and investment companies; foreign and local, according to Iraqi and Kurdistan
Province investment Laws.
4- Visas affairs (visa) for foreign workers and residence permits transactions in the Province and Iraq.
5- Establishing exhibitions and seminars between foreign and local companies and organizing exhibitions
on Iraq and the Province.
6- Organizing exhibitions in European, Arab and Regional countries among companies, investors and
businessmen and contract law.
7- Legal establishment of investments opportunities according to Iraq’s and the Province’s investing laws.
8- Partnership agreements, mergers between companies and sponsorship agreements.
Transport Law (air, land and sea)
As that Iraq in general and Kurdistan Province in particular have become the focus of attention for investing
companies and also the attention of the air, land and marine transport companies to the Iraqi economy and the
Kurdistan Province. International airline companies started to open branches in the interior of the country, as now
there are more than 23 Regional, European and Arabic airline working on passenger transport and air shipping
to and from Iraq and also there are more than 36 land-based transport company and many international marine
transportation companies working on the transport of goods to and from Iraq and the Kurdistan Province.
Here the lawyers’ team experience role of Smart Lawyer comes to address the most difficult disputes arising
from all kinds of transport (air, sea and land), we are dealing with all aspects of transport and represent legally,
we provide consultancy relating to tenants (Aircraft – Ships – Types of land transport means and other), insurance
companies, owning fleets of ships and aircraft repair companies:
1- Registration of aircrafts, ships and land transportation means in general.
2- Registration procedures of aerial investor (the national carrier) in Iraq (AOC).
3- Parties conflict (lessee and lesser – Aircrafts – Ships – Land transport means).
4- Compensation claims of passengers and transport companies, travel, tourism, airline and cargo claims.
5- Reform contracts of ships and aircrafts industry.
6- Collision and rescue.
7- International and local marine systems.
8 – Pollution caused by oil or any other substance.
9 – Sale and purchase, rent, mortgage and registration of aircrafts, ships and Land transport means.
The Smart Lawyer Co. has extensive experience in dealing with complex and cross-cutting needs in the work
communities and individuals, locally and globally, and together we will give personal attention to each client.
We are working close to our customers and help them develop pertinent and creative solutions for their current
needs; those that will appear in the long term, in commercial, investment fields and organization of the estate
inheritance and inheritance.
Financial insolvency
Organizing the estate and inheritance Law according to Islamic law (Sharia) and Iraqi laws.
Our lawyers characterized by extensive experiences in techniques of organizing the estate and inheritance,
they have worldly- wise with respect to that, which includes:
1- Organizing of the estate and inheritance.
2- Establishing family holding companies.
3- Asset Management.
4- Drafting wills and ratification of them.
5- Distributing the property of the deceased .
Arbitration and Mediation
Firstly and finally; we seek to practice the philosophy of “Avoiding Disputes” and this include the expectation
of disputes points with the objectives of our customers and before they appear, however, if it occurs,
and disputes happen, our lawyers have extensive experience in the representation of our customers in
arbitration disputes and mediation procedures and other alternative means for solving disputes.
Raise lawsuits and judicial disputes
Our lawyers aim to achieve the interests of clients and customers with regard to raising lawsuits; our
lawyers seek the maximum effective method. We are making the maximum possible results and at
reasonable costs whether it’s through the early settlement or after long sessions in the courts.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in trade, civil, penal issues; include the representation of people
and companies in civil, criminal and administrative cases, involving the execution of contracts, claim
compensation for the damage caused by decades and prejudice, disputes of companies, insurance
and transportation disputes, and judicial enforcement of intellectual property and international trade
disputes and also in criminal cases and address all crimes against our clients; crimes like stealing, fraud,
embezzlement , kidnapping , murder and other criminal offenses that our clients or members of their
families or members of the companies might be exposed to.
Alternative means of rsolving conflicts
In the negotiations that concerning any international contract that need precise discussions concerning
dispute solution procedures. The idea of arbitration has gradually become a popular way to solve
disputes in a lot of countries, including Iraq and this is due to the fact that arbitration allows a large area
of maneuver for local and international partnerships to focus on the intention of the parties rather than
a literal application of the law.
Our creative applications and our applications and creative of a wide range of binding and non-binding
alternative solutions of disputes techniques will work in a lot of cases to end the need of raising expensive
and time-consuming suits.
We have wide expertise about negotiation techniques; this helps the owners of large contracts parties to
establish conversation strategies and official obligations and also to facilitate the negotiations.
Our team of law experts has a broad knowledge of all forms of mediation and arbitration. Although we
always prefer an amicable settlements, if matters become controversial; then we reassure the client,
when he knows that the Smart Lawyer Co. has assigned more than one lawyer for the case and to proceed
in all its stages therefore he will be fully aware of the meetings’ events and their results and we will be
coordinated with the client and hold full consultation with him in most action steps.
In cases of emergency, we have an expert adviser’s team in formalities procedures to apply for urgent
and immediate judicial procedures.
We have the right to raise a suit before the courts of the State of Iraq and to follow-up procedures which
are necessary. We are also registered in the Lawyers’ Record. The level of our attorney team in litigation
experience in both commercial and civil lawsuits creates an outstanding ability to take over and manage
the judicial disputes.
