Corporate & Business Matters

On a daily basis Al-Hossam Legal assists clients on a full range of corporate and business matters. We assist publicly owned, privately held, and family owned businesses in all stages of business development and operation.

The firm focuses particularly on the following services:

• General corporate matters dealing with all aspects of company and business laws.
• Entity selection and incorporation of all types of businesses and companies in Kuwait, plus branches and representative offices of foreign companies.
• Organization, formation, capitalization, structuring issues, and corporate restructuring.
• Preparing and negotiating shareholder agreements and joint ventures.
• Incorporation of companies and registration with local authorities.
• Conducting legal due diligence reviews.
• Management, control, and corporate governance issues including instituting procedures, best practices, and duties for boards of directors and officers.
• Drafting board resolutions and shareholders’ meeting minutes, assisting with shareholders’ assembly planning, advice on minority rights and disputes.
• Drafting and analysing all business, services, and employment documentation.
• Drafting all corporate policies and procedures required under Kuwaiti laws.
• Reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and dispositions, from the initial structuring and negotiating to the documenting and closing.
• Incorporation of subsidiaries, branches and divisions.
• Transfer of shares, business and assets.
• All corporate compliance issues, including regulatory compliance.
• All securities, CBK, CMA and Boursa Kuwait compliance and public disclosures.
• Taxation compliance, exemptions and disputes.
• Training management on major corporate and regulatory compliance for public companies.