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We represent clients in Cameroon, Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Legal Power Law Firm specializes in providing quality services in the following areas of menu listed. Please select a category from the menu to obtain detailed information about any specific area of your interest.
- Intellectual Property Law (Trademark, Patents, Copyright, etc.).
- Admiralty, Shipping and Marine Insurance.
- Commercial Law.
- Aviation.
- Registration of Companies and Incorporation.
- Restructuring of Companies.
- Commercial Transactions and Litigation.
- Property Law.
- Banking and Finance.
- Mergers and Acquisitions.
- Minerals, Gas & Oil Exploration and Exploitation Laws & Energy.
- Environmental and Water Law.
- Insurance.
- Taxation, Tax Avoidance and Customs Duties.
- Labour and Social Security.
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
As a result of the multi-corporate client base of the Legal Power Firm, the partners have undertaken extensive work in Intellectual Property Law.
Our IP Law Department offers a broad-based service in this area including but not limited to:
- The acquisition, registration and protection of intellectual property.
- Litigation on all aspects of Trademarks, including infringement & opposition proceedings, passing-off, unlawful competition and anti-counterfeiting procedures.
- Licensing and technical agreements.
- All related aspects of taxation.
- Domain names.
- Internet Law.
- Restraints and contracting for monopoly protection.
Our Patents Department renders services in the following areas: Drafting, filing, prosecuting, all aspects of patent litigation, searching, licensing, renewals, technology transfer, etc.
Our Trademark & Patent Department have extensive expertise in the areas of Copyright, Anti-piracy/counterfeiting (both civil and criminal) on behalf of clients. We are usually very expeditious and effective against counterfeiters and pirates. Our team deals with IP matters on the internet, registration of domain names and the resolution of disputes related to domain names.- ADMIRALTY.
Legal Power Firm is a prominent Law Firm within the entire Central African Sub-region with the aid of external consultants online, in the areas of Admiralty, Shipping, Marine Insurance, Transport Law and the Law governing Maritime within the entire sub-region of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC). We are unique to have a specialist external Consultant on Marine Law of our Firm. The specialist services we offer include:
- Arrest and attachment of ships and property, claims, disputes on behalf of ship-owners, importers, freight forwarders, stevedores, underwriters, charter party disputes, arrest for security for arbitration and other proceedings within the sub-region and other claims against ship-owners and chatterers.
- We represent creditors following the sale of a ship and if possible establish a fund from the proceedings of that sale.
- AVIATION.
We are specialized and experienced in aviation and related aspects. We have an external licensed Technical Expert to our vibrant legal services. Our consultant has a specialized staff that offers quality services under the best conditions, even when our field services management team handles your specific and recurrent operations within the Central and West African regions. Areas of specialization here include:
- Advice on liability claim.
- Interpretation of insurance policies.
- Advice regarding insurance claims.
- Analysis of international conventions.
- Accident inquiries.
- Aircraft finance and corporate commercial transactions.
- Leasing of Aircraft.
- Advice on the registration of aircraft.
- Advice on licensing air transport, a fast-growing market in the sub-region and internationally.
- BANKING AND FINANCE.
The Banking and Finance Law Department is a specialized division of the Firm which offers a wide range of services concerning banking and finance. These include:
- Incorporation and procurement of banking licenses within the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC).
- Corporate Finance and securities.
- Corporate debt and multilateral development bank financing.
- Negotiating dent work-out for non-performing loans.
- Legal audit of banking legal instruments.
- Advice on international development projects and rescheduling of international debt.
- Project and structure finance.
- Advice in respect of all aspects of financing.
- Investigations of fraudulent banking transactions and money laundering.
- COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS AND LITIGATIONS.
Our Commercial Law team assists with the drafting of contracts on exclusive representation, sole suppliers, advice on the implementation and termination of contracts, general legal advice and services in regard to specific facts, issues involving commercial law and insolvency.
- REGISTRATION OF COMPANIES AND ASSOCIATIONS.
We assist our local and multi-national clients in the incorporation of their companies and establishment. We register from a sole-owner company to a Private, Public Limited Company and a non-limited company for major financial institutions, mining houses, industrial groups, multinational companies, medium-sized organizations, individual businesses and entrepreneurs.
We are experienced in the registration of non-profit and other associations in Cameroon.
We advice our clients on the various options of companies to register, we follow-up their employment contracts, immigration formalities and all related documentation for the takeoff of their businesses.
- COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS AND LITIGATIONS.
Our Commercial and Corporate Law Division enjoys a local and international reputation for the quality of its services. It is well known for the following specialized services:
- Debt recoveries and payments.
- Advice on the structuring of transactions.
- Advice on the selection of the most appropriate entity for transactions.
- Planning of group structures.
- Capital market advice and transactions.
- Drafting of documents such as Sale Agreements, Leases, Supply Agreements, Shareholders’ Agreement, Insurance Policies, etc.
- Advice on e-commerce transactions.
- Insolvency.
- Fraud Recovery.
- TAXATION, TAX AVOIDANCE AND CUSTOMS DUTIES.
This area of specialization was initiated as a result of the recurrent disputes reported by both our local and expatriate clients. Most of our foreign clients investing in Cameroon or the CEMAC Sub-region do not master the taxation policies of Cameroon and the sub-region. Our team of legal experts in consultation with the Taxation and Customs Departments are capable of furnishing our clientele with the current Tax and Customs trends. We therefore advice our clients in the following areas:
- Tax benefits in the areas of investment.
- Customs exoneration in their areas of investment.
- Tax avoidance to clients.
- Tax and Customs penalties.
- MINERAL, GAS & OIL AND ENERGY LAW.
Cameroon and the Central African Sub-region are endowed with a wealth of unexploited minerals, gas & oil and energy resources. This area of practice is steadily gaining grounds. Our team of skilful legal experts specializes in the following areas:
- Acquisition of mining licenses.
- Acquisition of gas and oil licenses.
- Permits to operate a power plant.
- We furnish our clients with the mineral potentials of Cameroon.
- We advice clients on the exoneration benefits of investing in these areas.
- We make follow-ups on their behalf to obtain exploration and exploitation licenses.
- Environmental dispute resolution through mediation.
- Representation to public authorities.
- Mining rehabilitation obligations.
- Environmental management assessment.
- Legislation relating to the environment and water.
- Criminal prosecution and liability.
- PROPERTY LAW.
The Property Law team deals with:
- Long term and short leases.
- Mineral Leases.
- Transfer of Immovable Property.
- Trust, including formation and administration of trust and drafting of trust deeds.
- Advice on mortgages.
- Ante-nuptial contracts.
- INSURANCE.
The introduction of the Insurance Code applicable in the CEMAC region known by its French acronym as the CIMA CODE has witnessed the growth and development of the Insurance Industry in the entire Sub-region, Cameroon inclusive.
Our Insurance Law Division caters for all long and short-term insurance (including reinsurance) needs. Our areas of specialization include:
- Advice on insurance legislation in the Sub-region.
- Insurance policies.
- Registration of new insurers.
- Policy drafting and underwriting advice.
- Professional indemnity.
- Aviation and maritime insurance.
- Fire, motor accidents and general liability insurance.
- Reinsurance.
- Long term (e.g. life, endowment, annuity) insurance and pensions.
- The consequences of the failure to take an insurance policy.
- All claims and disputes.
We have a firm contact with most insurers together with the firm connections within the broking community enables us to offer our clients access to the decision-makers within these organizations.
- MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS.
Our Commercial and Corporate Division has extensive and varied experiences and expertise in mergers and acquisitions, including:
- Drafting of all necessary documents.
- Joint venture.
- Take over offers.
- Schemes of arrangement.
- Due diligence investigations and report.
- Advice in respect of employment law issues arising from transactions.
- Advice on appropriate structures of transactions and their implementations.
- LABOUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY.
The reputation of Legal Power Firm in Labour Law is because of its offer of a comprehensive range of professional services to its corporate client base. Its services can be categorized thus:
- Advice and drafting of collective agreements, contracts of employment of managerial & junior staff, consultancy agreements and restraint of trade agreements. Â
- Advice on Labour Law implication of acquisition, mergers and transfer of business.
- Advice on all aspects of retrenchment, redundancy and rationalization.
- Advice on implementation of skills development, employment equity and discrimination.
- Advice on labour disputes, reconciliation and resolution.
- Advice on collective bargaining strategies including unilateral implementations of lock-outs and other forms of industrial actions.
- Advice on statutorily based basic employment conditions and minimum standards, skills development and employment equity programmes.
- Advice to the right of social insurance contribution.
- Job site security, etc.