Legal Services / Sectors
Corporate Finance
PLA’s Corporate and Finance Practice Group provides strategic advice on a full range of corporate, financial and commercial matters, general corporate counseling and regulatory assistance for international and domestic businesses in all stages of development. Our clients span the full gamut from start-ups to some of the largest global corporations in the world.
PLA’s Corporate and Finance practice represents both buyers and sellers in complex, multi-million-dollar transactions.We also regularly assist in the assessment, negotiation and closing of business transactions.
Tax
We provide comprehensive tax advice on all aspects of Ethiopian taxation law advising foreign and domestic corporate entities, trusts, and individuals.
Led by our legal experts, with significant experience providing legal advice on national tax legislation, and policy, as well as international tax treaties,
Tax advisory for national and international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures;
Real Estate
We provide comprehensive and highly diverse advice on all aspects of real estate law, including, but not limited to, acquisition, development, leasing, financing, compliance, entitlements, and disposition. We have a depth of experience in representing private entities, developers, lenders, borrowers, and investors, both domestic and foreign.
Intellectual Property
PLA is recognized as one of the leaders in the field of intellectual property. Led by a Legal Director, PLA’s Intellectual Property Practice Group offers exceptional legal services in matters involving patents, trademarks and copyrights, licensing and technology transfers. Whether it’s an invention or trademark, patent prosecution, or licensing a trade secret – we ensure our clients maintain a competitive edge while also protecting against intellectual property theft and misuse.
PLA’s clients range from large-scale multinational corporations to individual inventors, authors, and creative entrepreneurs.
Mining & Energy
PLA’s Mining & Energy Practice offers our international and domestic clients a wide array of services in all legal aspects of the mining and energy industries.
Our mining law practice represents multinational mining companies in Ethiopia and has assisted in the drafting mine construction agreements, exploration and development agreements, and environmental compliance of mining fields and agreements.
Hospitality & Leasure
Our multidisciplinary team brings corporate, real estate, and tax attorneys and professionals together who are industry-experienced in the development and financing of diverse forms of recreational property.
PLA has worked with clients on a variety of properties, including hotels and resorts. We understand contemporary business and legal issues unique to hospitality industry clients, and several of the largest hotel owners and operators in the world consistently look to PLA’s Hospitality & Leisure Practice Group for advice and counsel.
Labour & Empoyment
PLA’s Labor & Employment Practice Group advises clients in all matters involving labor and employment law, including on hiring, terminations, drafting contracts and workplace policies and procedures, and workplace investigations.
PLA’s employment and immigration clients largely consist of foreign companies doing business in Ethiopia. PLA regularly provides legal services to leading foreign businesses in matters related to recruitment, employment contracts, employment taxes, human resource manuals, managing discipline, termination of employment, collective bargaining and agreements, restructuring and retrenchments, employment benefits; occupational health and safety, strikes and lock-outs, and dispute resolution.
Immigration
PLA’s Immigration Practice Group represents foreign businesses, companies and international organizations on immigration matters. Members in the practice help our clients navigate Ethiopia’s regulatory regime related to immigration and related matters. Our clients in this field range from multinational corporations to small- and medium-sized companies in Ethiopia.
The Immigration Practice Group is set up to coordinate closely with other practice areas that impact company decisions regarding immigration, including labor and employment, tax, and corporate law.
Aviation Law
We represent leasing companies, banks and financiers in such transactions. PLA’s Aviation Law practice has also focused on advising international clients in the industry on local law requirements on local registrations, deregistration, repossession, and export of aircrafts.
NGO
PLA is one of Ethiopia’s leading law offices that provide foreign non-governmental and non-profit organizations with comprehensive advice on registration, compliance, planning, governance, and reporting issues.
We provide a variety of services that require synergy with other practice teams given the broad-based and full-service representation that these organizations require. Clients in this practice include not-for-profit organizations in Ethiopia, aid organizations, bilateral governmental organizations, multilateral agencies, and religious associations.
Our team members have an intimate knowledge and understanding of not only Ethiopia’s Civil Society Organizations Proclamation but also all laws and regulations that impact NGO/NPOs.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Until our judiciary and court system demonstrate consistent traditions of efficiency and ability to handle complex international commercial disputes, alternative dispute resolution practically remains the only viable option for our international clients who invest in Ethiopia.
PLA’s Corporate and Finance Practice Group provides strategic advice on a full range of corporate, financial and commercial matters, general corporate counseling and regulatory assistance for international and domestic businesses in all stages of development. Our clients span the full gamut from start-ups to some of the largest global corporations in the world.
PLA’s Corporate and Finance practice represents both buyers and sellers in complex, multi-million-dollar transactions.We also regularly assist in the assessment, negotiation and closing of business transactions.
Tax
We provide comprehensive tax advice on all aspects of Ethiopian taxation law advising foreign and domestic corporate entities, trusts, and individuals.
Led by our legal experts, with significant experience providing legal advice on national tax legislation, and policy, as well as international tax treaties,
Tax advisory for national and international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures;
- Excise duties and VAT consultancy in relation to the property and other commercial transactions;
- Establishment of national and international holding structures;
- Tax planning with double taxation treaties and European, U.S., and Canadian laws
- Tax planning for national and international investment funds;
- Comprehensive advice on the full range of tax disputes and tax compliance. PLA’s Tax Practice Group represents clients at all stages of the administrative process and before the Ethiopian judiciary
Real Estate
We provide comprehensive and highly diverse advice on all aspects of real estate law, including, but not limited to, acquisition, development, leasing, financing, compliance, entitlements, and disposition. We have a depth of experience in representing private entities, developers, lenders, borrowers, and investors, both domestic and foreign.
Intellectual Property
PLA is recognized as one of the leaders in the field of intellectual property. Led by a Legal Director, PLA’s Intellectual Property Practice Group offers exceptional legal services in matters involving patents, trademarks and copyrights, licensing and technology transfers. Whether it’s an invention or trademark, patent prosecution, or licensing a trade secret – we ensure our clients maintain a competitive edge while also protecting against intellectual property theft and misuse.
PLA’s clients range from large-scale multinational corporations to individual inventors, authors, and creative entrepreneurs.
Mining & Energy
PLA’s Mining & Energy Practice offers our international and domestic clients a wide array of services in all legal aspects of the mining and energy industries.
Our mining law practice represents multinational mining companies in Ethiopia and has assisted in the drafting mine construction agreements, exploration and development agreements, and environmental compliance of mining fields and agreements.
Hospitality & Leasure
Our multidisciplinary team brings corporate, real estate, and tax attorneys and professionals together who are industry-experienced in the development and financing of diverse forms of recreational property.
PLA has worked with clients on a variety of properties, including hotels and resorts. We understand contemporary business and legal issues unique to hospitality industry clients, and several of the largest hotel owners and operators in the world consistently look to PLA’s Hospitality & Leisure Practice Group for advice and counsel.
Labour & Empoyment
PLA’s Labor & Employment Practice Group advises clients in all matters involving labor and employment law, including on hiring, terminations, drafting contracts and workplace policies and procedures, and workplace investigations.
PLA’s employment and immigration clients largely consist of foreign companies doing business in Ethiopia. PLA regularly provides legal services to leading foreign businesses in matters related to recruitment, employment contracts, employment taxes, human resource manuals, managing discipline, termination of employment, collective bargaining and agreements, restructuring and retrenchments, employment benefits; occupational health and safety, strikes and lock-outs, and dispute resolution.
Immigration
PLA’s Immigration Practice Group represents foreign businesses, companies and international organizations on immigration matters. Members in the practice help our clients navigate Ethiopia’s regulatory regime related to immigration and related matters. Our clients in this field range from multinational corporations to small- and medium-sized companies in Ethiopia.
The Immigration Practice Group is set up to coordinate closely with other practice areas that impact company decisions regarding immigration, including labor and employment, tax, and corporate law.
Aviation Law
We represent leasing companies, banks and financiers in such transactions. PLA’s Aviation Law practice has also focused on advising international clients in the industry on local law requirements on local registrations, deregistration, repossession, and export of aircrafts.
NGO
PLA is one of Ethiopia’s leading law offices that provide foreign non-governmental and non-profit organizations with comprehensive advice on registration, compliance, planning, governance, and reporting issues.
We provide a variety of services that require synergy with other practice teams given the broad-based and full-service representation that these organizations require. Clients in this practice include not-for-profit organizations in Ethiopia, aid organizations, bilateral governmental organizations, multilateral agencies, and religious associations.
Our team members have an intimate knowledge and understanding of not only Ethiopia’s Civil Society Organizations Proclamation but also all laws and regulations that impact NGO/NPOs.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Until our judiciary and court system demonstrate consistent traditions of efficiency and ability to handle complex international commercial disputes, alternative dispute resolution practically remains the only viable option for our international clients who invest in Ethiopia.