IP Law Firm of the Year in Saudi Arabia
The Law Firm of Majed M Garoub Majed M Garoub Chairman Tel: +966 2 651 8222 Fax: +966 2 651 8333 majed@lawgaroub.com www.lawgaroub.com
The Law Firm of Majed M Garoub has been working in many legal fields since 1995. It is known to be one of the first firms to handle IP issues in KSA and the Arabian Gulf area. The firm has organised and participated in many IP conferences and seminars and is specialised in providing IP training courses, as well as having a wide variety of published articles concerning IP. The firm’s main fields of work are: legal consultations and studies, contracts, commercial and financial litigation before all courts, debt collection and judicial sentence enforcement, companies and trademarks registration and protection of intellectual property (industrial and copyrights), arbitration and mediation, as well as legal training. It provides legal consultations in the field of commercial, banking, financial and insurance, in accordance with Islamic Shariah and applicable laws in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The firm also provides legal studies, and researches Shariah, regulatory and legal aspects, as well as organising and providing lectures and cultural symposiums for the high cadre of the firms with respect to the governing laws of Saudi Arabia. The contracts section is in charge of preparing civil and commercial contracts, and reviewing and negotiating their terms and conditions on behalf of clients, as well as following up on their implementation. The Law Firm of Majed M Garoub practises all commercial cases concerning securities disputes, commercial companies contracts, sale contracts, trade agencies, international distribution, commercial representation disputes, licensing of patents and trademarks. It practises litigation of administrative cases related to construction and general works contracts, franchise contracts, supply, installation and operation contracts, cases related to contracting and maintenance works, subcontracting and all issues related to these contracts including all types of insurance starting from bid insurance to execution insurance. The firm also deals in the cases of financial securities disputes, financial intermediation affairs and disputes resulting from breach of stock market conducts and all banking disputes arising out of documentary operations, LCs, cash deposits, bank remittance, credit cards, and bank guarantees. Majed M Garoub, The Law Firm of Majed M Garoub chairman, noted: “Our firm handles debt collection procedures through a special department that follows up and supervises the legal procedures of debt collection and enforcement on all sorts of judicial sentences.” The firm also provides services concerning companies and trademarks registration and protection of IP (industrial and copyrights). This includes conducting all procedures necessary for incorporating companies in accordance with Saudi Companies Law, and processing
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amendments of by-laws in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The firm also takes all necessary legal steps for establishment of companies or transfer of companies into closed entities in the Ministry of Trade and Industry or into public companies in accordance with the requirements of the Saudi Monetary Authority. Other services provided to clients include: registration of agencies contracts, distribution contracts and franchise contracts in the Commercial Agencies Register at the Ministry of Trade and Industry; registering trademarks and trade names in accordance with Saudi Regulations in addition to follow up of its registration at GCC Countries, Arab and foreign countries; taking legal procedures for protection of IP rights (industrial and literary); taking all required actions for combat of counterfeiting, fraud, duplication of marks; and taking all required procedures for combat of dumping and unfair competition. Regarding international affairs, the firm assists its clients in receiving international legal consultations in all legal fields through cooperation with the most prominent and specialised law firms throughout the world. In addition, it conducts the preparation, negotiation and presentation of international litigations on behalf of its clients all over the world, particularly at international litigation entities such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris and London Court for International Arbitration (LCIA). Mr. Garoub is also a member of the Advisory Board of Arbitration at the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Justice, and acts as Vice President of the Arab Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration (A.C.C.A). Mr Garoub added: “We have an advantage when working internationally because we enjoy a number of international memberships in committees, organisations and participations in forums, seminars and international conferences, especially with the International Union of Advocates (UIA) and the American Bar Association (ABA). “I participated in the membership of many organisations and committees specialising in international intellectual property regulations and others, such as the Bureau for investigation on crimes of fraud and counterfeiting (International Chamber of Commerce), and we are the legal representative of the committee in Saudi Arabia, the membership of the International Federation of Trademarks (INTA). I have also been involved with the delegations of the Council of Saudi Chambers to some of the world capitals such as South Korea, China and Japan to provide lectures on the legal and judicial system in Saudi Arabia.” Mr Garoub concluded: “Our main objective is to raise the level of the legal and judicial culture in the community through legal training in partnership with Sorbonne University, Roma TRE University and many prominent universities in the Arab region and Europe, which will result in improving our business. We continuously adjust our strategies in order to reach that objective.”