Practice Areas
Commercial, Corporate, and M&As
Aequitas provides speedy and tailored incorporation services of all types of commercial companies in Egypt and assists, through its associations, in the establishment of companies abroad. We provide our clients with swift corporate secretarial services, accurate general corporate advice and assist our clients with all aspects of establishment, licensing and post establishment legal needs. We offer comprehensive services from the incorporation of companies to mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts, cross border transactions, agency, distribution and franchising agreements, and joint ventures. Our team has core experience in complex commercial transactions and arrangements. Aequitas drafts and advises on various commercial agreements, including distribution, agency, licensing, toll manufacturing, supply and other operational agreements.
Off Shoring and Corporate Restructuring
We are able to provide incorporations services in most offshore and tax efficient countries for business start-ups as well as establishing offshore trusts or an offshore holding company, registered offices, and company secretariat. We have experience in BVI, Caymans, Mauritius, Gibraltar, Delaware (US), Ireland, Netherlands and UK.
Employment
Aequitas advises both employers and employees on contentious and non-contentious issues in the work place such as the pre-contract negotiation of working conditions, employment contracts, the transfer of employment on the sale of a business, supplementary employee benefits schemes, ensuring compliance with employment regulations, setting up ESOPs and assisting our clients in setting and implementing labor and employees related policies to meet their internal requirements and those of the applicable laws and regulations.
Intellectual Property
We offer services in protection and registration of trademarks in Egypt and extension around the world as well as certificates of origin, protection of designs and patents, issues of copyright law, and domain name licensing and the expertise to protect your intellectual property through contractual safeguards.