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Afghanistan Lawyers International
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Type: Law
Network: TerraLex Description: (1) Afghanistan Lawyers International (“ALI” or “the Firm”) is an Afghan legal and government affairs advisory firm staffed by experienced lawyers with qualifications from Afghanistan, the United States and Australia. The Firm provides legal and regulatory advice and strategic government advisory services on complex and significant matters for the Afghanistan market. <br /><br />(2) Personnel:<br /><br />• The Firm’s partners and senior staff have extensive experience in advising on legal, taxation and government affairs matters in Afghanistan.<br /><br />(i) Mr. Zmarak Zhouand – Partner – Mr. Zhouand is Afghan-Australian and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New South Wales, Australia, in 2001 and as an attorney and counselor at law in New York, USA, in 2014. Between 2001 and 2008, Mr. Zhouand worked with Henry Davis York and Gadens Lawyers, both leading Australian corporate law firms, where he represented “blue-chip” national and international clients across the corporate, commercial, banking and finance and litigation practice areas. Mr. Zhouand returned to Afghanistan in 2008 to work as Senior Legal Counsel with Roshan, where, until early 2011 work as Senior Legal Counsel with Roshan, where, until early 2011, he co-led Roshan’s legal and government affairs team and was also in charge of the legal and regulatory function for Roshan’s wholly owned subsidiary, M-Paisa. In the beginning of 2011, Mr. Zhouand re-entered private practice and subsequently founded ALI together with Prof. Mahjoor. Mr. Zhouand regularly represents and advises foreign investors, development finance institutions, United States Government implementing partners and contractors, Government of Afghanistan agencies, foreign governments and non-governmental organizations on some of the largest and most complex Afghanistan related matters and transactions. He focuses on banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, projects (telecommunications, mining and infrastructure, energy), litigation, regulatory and general commercial. Mr. Zhouand has been and continues to be consistently recognized as one of Afghanistan’s leading corporate, finance and mining lawyers by a large number of publications and bodies including The Legal 500, Chambers and IFLR1000. He has a B.A (SCU) (1998) and a LL.B. (UNE) (2000) and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. <br /><br />(ii) Prof. Abdul Shukor Mahjoor – Partner – Prof. Mahjoor is an Afghan-American advocate registered with the Afghanistan Independent Bar Association. He has worked extensively in Afghanistan in the legal and government affairs environments over several years including having worked as a consultant with Mr. Zhouand. Prior to forming ALI with Mr. Zhouand, Prof. Mahjoor was, for a period of almost 3 years, Managing Partner of a specialist dispute resolution law firm in Kabul, Afghanistan. Prof. Mahjoor is Chancellor of, and Professor of Law at, Karwan University, Kabul, Afghanistan. In addition to lecturing at Karwan University, Professor Mahjoor is frequently called upon to train high-ranking Government of Afghanistan officials on legal and diplomatic matters. He is a regular speaker at conferences on issues relating to rule of law and economic development and often features on television programs where topical legal issues are discussed. Prof. Mahjoor is a dispute resolution specialist, and arguably one of Afghanistan’s most effective dispute resolution lawyers. He frequently represents United States Government implementing partners and contractors, their foreign employees, and foreign legal and natural persons generally in relation to multi-million dollar disputes with Afghan counterparties, and in relation to Office of the Attorney-General investigations and commercial and criminal court proceedings up to and including the Supreme Court of Afghanistan. Prof. Mahjoor has a B.A. (Law) (Aazhar University), LL. M (Arab League University) and LL.M (University of Missouri).<br /><br />(iii) Our firm’s members include a number of Afghan paralegals and both local and foreign qualified lawyers and tax professionals. All our professional staff are at least bachelor degree qualified with the majority also holding post-graduate qualifications from Afghanistan and abroad, including Australia, Canada, the United States and India. <br /><br />(3) Sectors: Telecommunications, mining and infrastructure, oil and gas, information technology, banking and financial services, media, intellectual property, security, logistics, commercial aviation, contracting and non-governmental sectors.<br /><br />(4) Services:<br /><br />(i) Corporate and investment: specific and integrated full legal services to organizations doing business, and overseas investors looking to do business, in Afghanistan.<br /><br />(ii) Tax: the Firm specializes in the full range of tax issues such as tax exemptions, BRT, withholding taxes, corporate income tax, customs and tax dispute resolution.<br /><br />(iii) Projects: providing local counsel support for large and complex projects across a range of industries including mining and infrastructure, oil and gas and telecommunications.<br /> <br />(iv) Donor funds/PPP: advisory and transactional support to participants engaged in in donor funded projects including complex Public Private Partnerships (i.e. donors, public entities, private entities, prime grantees, and downstream grantees).<br /><br />(v) Commercial contracts: broad practice encompassing a range of commercial contracts and joint ventures, together with agency, distribution, franchising, sale of goods and services, procurement and other forms of transaction structures.<br /><br />(vi) Banking and finance: acting for financiers, borrowers and other intermediaries, strategic advice and practical structuring solutions, opinions, as well as documentation, for all types of transactions.<br /><br />(vii) Dispute resolution: negotiation, mediation, arbitration, specialist tribunals, primary and appellate courts.<br /><br />(viii) Government of Afghanistan advisory and lobbying services: including advising clients on devising engagement strategies with the Government of Afghanistan at the ministerial and deputy ministerial levels.<br /><br />(ix) Employment: including drafting standard employment agreements, human resources policies and procedures, advising on compliance and managing employee exits and disputes.<br /> Management
Zmarak ZhouandTitle: Email: z@lawyers.af Website: http://www.lawyers.af/ Address House number 2 corner Sherpoor Street and Shahrwahl Lane State: Country: Afghanistan Telephone: 93791669999  Receive Requests for Proposals:
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