KLS LEGAL SERVICES

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We are comprised of specialized and highly experienced legal practitioners who offer exceptionally high quality legal services in a wide range of sectors including; incorporation and general establishment of business operations, regulatory compliances, advisory services on complex commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), insolvency (bankruptcy and corporate insolvency, and business restructuring), insurance, intellectual property, revenue and tax law practice, banking and finance, projects, public private partnerships (PPPs), etc…

1. Analyzing The Case

KLS meticulously examines every aspect of the legal matter, delving into evidence, statutes, and precedents to formulate a comprehensive understanding of the situation.

2. Taking Steps Forward

With a strategic approach, KLS devises tailored plans, leveraging expertise to navigate complexities, and progress toward resolution with purposeful action.

3. Court Of Law Success

Through adept representation, KLS advocates zealously in courtrooms, employing persuasive arguments and legal acumen to achieve favorable outcomes for their clients.

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We Offer High Qulity Legal Services For The Satisfaction Of Our Clients

Our legal team has the requisite market knowledge and vast exposures necessary to help our clients achieve their business goals with ease and minimal or mitigated exposure to risks and losses throughout their business operations.

1. CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTICE

Kingston Legal Services (KLS) a fast paced modern law firm is aware of the commercial complexities facing business enterprises in South Sudan, in the region, and in the diaspora. Therefore, we put our client’s business interest at the center of our legal practice and as such offer a wide range of legal services under this area and department, all intended to ensure profitability to our clientele, both corporates and individuals engaged in business transactions. The areas of law and or services includes;-

1.1 Labour law and Employment

In any formal setting like employment, disputes between employers and their employees is an inevitable part of such relationships either arising from failure to perform each party’s obligations under the employment contract or due to irretrievable breakdown of the employment relationship. Well aware of such instances, our team of professionals are abreast and have variously in their past experiences and legal practice offered top-notched legal advice and representation on employment and benefits matters to both employers and employees. Therefore, we advise on all contentious and non-contentious aspects of labour and employment law and guide clients through the difficult transition/moments of rebuilding broken employment relationships in accordance with the Employment Act 2017. We further provide advice on the following aspects;-

1.2 Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency, and Business Restructuring

Inherent in business transactions either by corporate entities, and or individuals is a point of collapse of their transactions/operations, and bringing to an end such dealings due to circumstances often beyond their control, due to inability to pay debts as and when they accrue. Therefore, such occurrences often necessitates bankruptcy, corporate insolvency proceedings and business restructuring. KLS team brings on board the expertise in this area of the law to help individuals, and corporate entities trapped in the situation re-generate, re-organize and or begin a fresh start all over again for business continuity. As such, the services we offer are;-

1.3 Family Law, succession, disputes related to children and matrimonial properties

Our team has comprehensive knowledge and experience in offering legal services related to family law. The services offered includes the following;-

1.4 Intellectual Property Law

We understand the need to protect creativity and innovation in the market space. As such, our team has the requisite skills, knowledge and experience to advice on intellectual property rights like copyrights, trademarks, and patents. We also offer services in registration, renewals and or transfer of registered intellectual property rights, and enforcement of violations/breach of such rights.

1.5 Mergers and Acquisition

In business operations and due to the ever changing operational environment/climate, two or more businesses/companies often decide to amalgamate/merge their operations into and or under one corporation and management. Therefore, our team is well placed and possesses the requisite skills and industry knowledge in mergers and acquisitions ranging from conducting due diligence, negotiations, preparation of all relevant documentation and offering post-merger transition into smooth operation of the merged business entity(ies).

1.6 Revenue Law and Taxation

We offer highly experienced professional services in all tax related issues in compliance with the legal regime in South Sudan. These include, but not limited to, obtaining TIN certificates, filing tax returns, filing objections to tax assessments, representing clients in relevant forums regarding wrongly assessed tax. We also offer training and consultancy services relating to tax issues.

1.7 Insurance, Assurance and Reinsurance

Businesses and individuals while in the normal course of or daily transactions/engagements often suffer risks of losses to property and or life arising from many causes like motor/vehicle accidents, fire outbreaks, theft and burglary among others. As such, in order to ensure any person who encounters such a loss recovers or is placed in the same position before the incident, our team has and is skilled to offer legal services in the insurance law domain. The services includes, but not limited to the following;-

1.8 Immigration Law

With many of our clients having foreign employees, and aware of the challenges and complexities faced in securing all relevant documents, our team has well established rapport and is ready to navigate our clients through the hard lines in processing all necessary documents, ranging from; processing work permits, entry permits, residence permits, obtaining new passports and renewals, obtaining visas, and handing any appeals relating to obtaining any such documents. We also process (both new and replacement of lost) Nationality Identification Cards, and Nationality Certification to nationals of South Sudan.

2. BANKING AND FINANCE

Finance is an engine/propeller in business operations thus making the Banking and Finance sector a pivotal in the economy of South Sudan. Therefore, our KLS team is composed of highly dedicated professionals who have taken a deliberate interest in the sector to provide classified and top notch legal services, taking into account the current developing trends and the best regional and international practices to offer satisfactory services to our clientele. The range of services offered includes the following;-

3. DISPUTES RESOLUTION /LITIGATION

At the center of every commercial and or contractual relationship either between corporations or individuals, and or a blend of corporate and individuals lies disputes arising from misinterpretation of provisions of contractual terms or fundamental breach of the contract. As a long existing mode of resolving such inevitable disputes, parties have always had recourse to the Courts of Judicature “Temple of Justice” in the form of adversarial system, to seek remedies against the defaulting parties to contracts/transactions. Therefore, our professional and tested team of dedicated advocates have amassed a wealth of expertise/experience to offer high quality legal representation in courts of law from lower grade courts (Magistrate’s Court) to the highest Appellate Court (the Supreme Court). The spectrum of areas of laws the team has offered successful legal representation through litigation includes;-

4. ENERGY, MINING, OIL AND GAS, AND INFRASTRUCTURE

South Sudan is endowed with many natural resources and minerals. Our team has tapped into the sector and developed a wealth of knowledge and hands-on experience in energy law, oil and gas law, mining, and infrastructure development. Our services include; incorporation of SPVs, negotiations of contracts/agreements and or concessions with the government, exploration agreements, (PPAs, EPC and O&M maintenance agreements), project financing, and undertaking arbitration.

4.1 Infrastructure Finance

At KLS, we understand that infrastructure, (like roads, power generation stations, schools, hospitals, energy structures/infrastructures, oil and gas infrastructures, among others) is critical for economic development, reducing poverty and inequality, creating jobs, and ensuring environmental sustainability, generates high social returns and is welfare enhancing. However, delivering quality infrastructure is often affected by many complexities and challenges. Therefore, our team, being abreast with the current/modern modes employed by Governments to deliver infrastructure through project financing and or PPPs have amassed the requisite knowledge and skills to offer legal advice on every stage of such developments ranging from; undertaking negotiations between the prospective investor(s) and government to ensure proper risk allocation, forming/incorporating the SPVs to execute the works, drafting all relevant/key legal documents to regularize the arrangement, obtaining the requisite funds from financiers, procurement of necessary materials, management of the development process, and post-project development management, and handover of the infrastructure to the government.

5. REAL ESTATE AND CONVEYANCING

Many complexities and intricacies exist while dealing with real estate and properties conveyancing. Our robust team of experts/professionals provide a wide range of legal services in the sector including, conducting comprehensive due diligence search, negotiating, drafting and or reviewing legal documents/agreements/contracts regarding properties, managing estates/properties on behalf of landlords, advising clients on purchases and or sales of properties, advising clients on co-ownership or properties, managing tenant-landlord relationships, providing advice on leases and licenses on properties, and investment agreements, securities documents like mortgages and other registrable interests like charges, offering advice on condominium property ownership within and without the country. In addition, due to the possibility of disputes that might arise while undertaking any of the above mentioned transactions, our team has, and is ready to provide legal representation in courts of law to enforce the rights of our clients.

6. EAST AFRICAN COURT OF JUSTICE PRACTICE

Our team has also taken a deliberate interest to learn the procedures for prosecuting matters before the EACJ. As such, we have the requisite knowledge to represent clients in the regional court in the event of violation of any of the provisions of the various East African Community Protocols, including conducting arbitration sessions before the court.

7. INTERNET AND THE LAW, AND DATA PRIVACY

Our team has experience in the law of internet and data privacy, and thus provide specialized legal advice on privacy and data protection, representing clients in relevant forums for violation/breach of the right to privacy.

8. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTES RESOLUTION - ADR

Disputes and disagreements in business transactions and daily living of individuals are inevitable. However, the long pattern of rigorous litigation has proved not only expensive, but also cumbersome and delays delivery of justice to litigants. Therefore, to ensure business efficacy and realization of justice to litigants, and aware of the cost-benefits of employing other alternative modes of resolving disputes, our KLS team has over the years of progressive practice amassed wealth of expertise in modern and cost effective alternative disputes’ resolution methods ranging from Arbitration, Mediation, Negotiation and Reconciliation all aimed at resolving commercial disputes and any other business grievances and matters affecting operation of companies/corporate entities and individual deals cheaply and within a considerably short period of time than fully flagged litigation. Through our ADR approach of disputes resolution, our clientele derives legal and practical/workable business solutions at their convenience and plays a key role/lead in reaching agreeable resolutions under our experienced legal counsel and guidance. Here, our team closely offers guidance on the distinctive and modern formalities and procedures used in ADR mechanisms to achieve well-thought-out solutions. In addition, our team offers, and are ready to act as independent mediators, conciliators and negotiators, and arbitrators on behalf of other companies to amicably resolve their business impulses/disputes effectively and at relatively cheap costs to achieve business/commercial sense. Therefore, with the expertise our team possesses, we are better placed to help a client choose an alternative dispute resolution process that can streamline and lower the costs of litigation, move the dispute to a non-public forum, and efficiently draft commercially-reasonable settlements that accomplish a client's business interest/goals, while protecting long-standing business relationships and maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive information.

KLS REGISTRAR’S LIMITED

The firm also has a Registrars’ department. At KLS Registrars Limited, we provide top notch corporate advisory and company secretarial services to our corporate clients. The services offered range from company incorporation, comprehensive due diligences across several regulatory and transactional stages, preparation of minutes for company general assembly/shareholders and board meetings, ensuring regulatory compliance for corporate clients, ensuring timely filings of returns with the relevant registries, in-house corporate governance training, notarial services, registration of foreign company documents, authentication and or certification of academic and other foreign company documents from relevant embassies and or registries, trusteeship in regards to highly confidential documents, among other secretarial services. At KLS, our professional and highly experienced lawyers invest their valuable time to understand the business of our clients, the industry and investment climate/environment and employ an inclusive approach to offer sound, practical and effective legal business solutions where the client participates and yields satisfactory results. This approach mends a long lasting professional and attorney-client relationship necessary to advance business success from inception to full operation. Therefore, at KLS, our drive and goal is to provide industry best modern practices, with integrity and professionalism so as to ensure business excellence, and thus offer exceedingly satisfactory services to our clients.

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