Commercial and Corporate Law

HLCS proudly presents its Commercial and Corporate Law practice area particularly adapted for clients embarked in their business journey across the Horn of Africa. As the region enriches in its cultural, societal, tribal diversity, our team holds precise cultural sensitivities and nuanced regulatory recognitions that remain key to effective legal service delivery.

We offer a breadth of expert services dedicated to guiding commercial and corporate entities through every stage of their business lifecycle. This includes:

  • Establishing appropriate legal structures for tax efficiency

  • Forging partnerships

  • Managing daily operational legality

  • Developing mature-stage exit strategies

  • Somali corporate law compliance

  • Contract law fulfillment for regular commercial interactions

  • Understanding Shari'a law's influence on business practices

Our personalized client-first assistance carries forward into more refined realms such as business expansion, complex mergers and acquisitions contracts, intellectual property protection, as well as clear sublimity severed when tackling disputes drafted for dispute resolution tribunals.

Our experts have been at the forefront of major constitutional drafting, legislative drafting, capacity building, law reform and legal analysis in Somalia and the Horn of Africa. The Founding Partners were an integral part of the Provisional Constitution currently in force in Somalia and have participated in the constitutional process that led to the adoption of the current constitution.

Let us handle all your legal matters.

Finding a law firm that offers a wide range of services and has experienced attorneys can go a long way in ensuring you do not rub your shoulders with the law in the wrong way.

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We have legal experts in HLSC on Roman Civil Law, an integral part of current Somali law.

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Experts on British Common Law.

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We work on legal reform in Somalia.

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Legal experts conversant in English, Swahili, Somali, German, Arabic.

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We have a vast digital library of Somali laws.

We have specialized professionals in various law niches and are committed to helping clients who need legal advice or have lawsuit issues in East Africa and beyond.

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