Independence

We are an independent Tunisian law firm. We exercise our profession in respect of the rules of deontology.

Availability

We are committed to handling each case with all due diligence, and to mobilizing all the resources of our firm in order to ensure the full respect of our clients’ deadlines.

Transparence

Keenly aware of our clients’ constraints, we provide with full and transparent information about the cost of our interventions.

Proximity

Deeply committed, our team combines proximity with its readiness to listen to you in order to better respond to your requests. We provide customized services.

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Firm

Founded in 2009, Gallala Law Firm is a business law firm consists of lawyers with high competencies after long years of service in the most prestigious law firms.
Our firm operates in all areas of business law; it brings a new dimension to the legal profession, combining the legal expertise to a good knowledge of the area of intervention.
The firm’s size makes it possible to foster a personalized approach, as well as full and total commitment towards our clients. We work in small teams to allow a greater flexibility and render customized legal services.
Due to its independence, our firm is able to mobilize its network of correspondents, handpicked for their competencies and skills.

Practice Area

Arbitration, Litigation and Mediation

Alternative conflict resolution is at the very heart of our firm’s activities. Our team members have specifically been trained to master commercial mediation and arbitration. We have developed extensive expertise in this field of activity and we support our clients in these particular proceedings.
Our firm defends our clients’ commercial and financial rights in court, whether as claimants or as defendants. We intervene before the different types of courts: the Courts of Appeal, the Court of Cassation, and in the national and international arbitration procedures.
Our team intervenes in the procedures which are led as stipulated by the regulations under the auspices of CEPANI, CCI, ICDR, ASA, UNCITRAL, OHADA, OCI. It also intervenes in ad hoc arbitration cases. The handled files involve, among other things, transactions, executive liability, commercial contracts, shareholder litigations and investment protocols. 

Economic Law and Competition Law

Our firm advises and assists its clients on issues of economic law and helps them in their relocation efforts in Tunisia or in their endeavor to reorganize their distribution network, trade licensing agreements, franchise and other types of commercial agreements.
The Gallala Law Firm team also defends our clients before the Competition Council for vertical or horizontal agreements, or for dominant position abuse.

Corporate – Fusion Acquisition – Private Equity

We very frequently handle a wide variety of acquisition and/or cession of companies. This has been the firm’s major field of activity since its inception.
Our firm advises and assists its clients in particular as regards the establishment of companies and the drafting of the Articles of Association (Articles of Incorporation), the organization and holding of their companies’ Boards of Directors’ meetings - as well as their Annual General Assemblies, the setting up of Delegations of Authority, the conclusion or the implementation of specific operations such as statutory amendments and share capital changes.
We are also experts in capital increase operations, internal and external repurchases (LBO, MBO-MBI, LMBO, etc.), mergers, and liquidations, whether as investor consultants or as managers/shareholders, which allows us to have a concrete and cross-sectional understanding of the capital-investment operations. 

Social

Our lawyers advise our clients on the enforcement and respect of the Tunisian labor regulations, and ensure the implementation of the solutions that have been adapted to their respective companies, which must be in line with the best practices in that domain.
Our firm is active in terms of restructuring and social plans, social management of mergers and acquisitions, social due diligence, collective negotiations and social relations, and individual work relations.
We also have the expertise to assist our clients relocate in Tunisia, or to hire foreign staff. Our firm defends its clients’ interests before all courts (Courts, Social Security Courts, and Criminal Courts etc.) in all cases of individual or collective disputes initiated against or by the client company and/or its executives.

Ohada Law

Our firm assists, advises and defends its clients in the development and exercise of their activities in the 17 member states of OHADA, namely Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroun, Central Africa, Ivory Coast, The Comoros, The Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial-Guinea, Mali, Niger, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Chad and Togo.

Our team’s expertise allows our clients to benefit from the pragmatic recommendations, taking into consideration the challenges of the business law in Africa and the environment in which they want to set up their companies. Thanks to our work and to our experience in the resolution of complex cases in Africa, the Firm has developed perfect knowledge of the legal systems which stem from OHADA Law, a law which substitutes national legal systems.

PPP and Project Finance

Our firm is one of the most renowned in Tunis. It offers its services to industrial groups and investment funds for a wide variety of banking and financial operations.
We intervene in the structuring, negotiation and finalization of complex fundraising campaigns, particularly in infrastructure and mining projects in Africa.
Our firm has developed leading-edge expertise in this field, which allows us to offer our clients appropriate assistance and to defend their legal and economic interests
In particular, our team advised several private companies in Africa for more than five years in the fields of Publics Works, the construction of hydro-electric power plants and the distribution of drinking water through various African towns.

Tax Law

We provide assistance to our clients throughout the whole process of their operations, whether be it as legal advice or as tax disputes
Our team intervenes in all the fiscal operations related to the acquisition and/or cession of companies. We also have cutting-edge know-how in terms of company assistance during tax audits and litigations.
We are active in all kinds of operations related to different fiscal and legal procedures, and we have extensive experience in terms of negotiation with the tax authorities and/or during tax audits.

Arbitration, Litigation and Mediation

Alternative conflict resolution is at the very heart of our firm’s activities. Our team members have specifically been trained to master commercial mediation and arbitration. We have developed extensive expertise in this field of activity and we support our clients in these particular proceedings.
Our firm defends our clients’ commercial and financial rights in court, whether as claimants or as defendants. We intervene before the different types of courts: the Courts of Appeal, the Court of Cassation, and in the national and international arbitration procedures.
Our team intervenes in the procedures which are led as stipulated by the regulations under the auspices of CEPANI, CCI, ICDR, ASA, UNCITRAL, OHADA, OCI. It also intervenes in ad hoc arbitration cases. The handled files involve, among other things, transactions, executive liability, commercial contracts, shareholder litigations and investment protocols. 

Economic Law and Competition Law

Our firm advises and assists its clients on issues of economic law and helps them in their relocation efforts in Tunisia or in their endeavor to reorganize their distribution network, trade licensing agreements, franchise and other types of commercial agreements.
The Gallala Law Firm team also defends our clients before the Competition Council for vertical or horizontal agreements, or for dominant position abuse.

Corporate – Fusion Acquisition – Private Equity

We very frequently handle a wide variety of acquisition and/or cession of companies. This has been the firm’s major field of activity since its inception.
Our firm advises and assists its clients in particular as regards the establishment of companies and the drafting of the Articles of Association (Articles of Incorporation), the organization and holding of their companies’ Boards of Directors’ meetings - as well as their Annual General Assemblies, the setting up of Delegations of Authority, the conclusion or the implementation of specific operations such as statutory amendments and share capital changes.
We are also experts in capital increase operations, internal and external repurchases (LBO, MBO-MBI, LMBO, etc.), mergers, and liquidations, whether as investor consultants or as managers/shareholders, which allows us to have a concrete and cross-sectional understanding of the capital-investment operations. 

Social

Our lawyers advise our clients on the enforcement and respect of the Tunisian labor regulations, and ensure the implementation of the solutions that have been adapted to their respective companies, which must be in line with the best practices in that domain.
Our firm is active in terms of restructuring and social plans, social management of mergers and acquisitions, social due diligence, collective negotiations and social relations, and individual work relations.
We also have the expertise to assist our clients relocate in Tunisia, or to hire foreign staff. Our firm defends its clients’ interests before all courts (Courts, Social Security Courts, and Criminal Courts etc.) in all cases of individual or collective disputes initiated against or by the client company and/or its executives.

Ohada Law

Our firm assists, advises and defends its clients in the development and exercise of their activities in the 17 member states of OHADA, namely Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroun, Central Africa, Ivory Coast, The Comoros, The Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial-Guinea, Mali, Niger, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Chad and Togo.

Our team’s expertise allows our clients to benefit from the pragmatic recommendations, taking into consideration the challenges of the business law in Africa and the environment in which they want to set up their companies. Thanks to our work and to our experience in the resolution of complex cases in Africa, the Firm has developed perfect knowledge of the legal systems which stem from OHADA Law, a law which substitutes national legal systems.

PPP and Project Finance

Our firm is one of the most renowned in Tunis. It offers its services to industrial groups and investment funds for a wide variety of banking and financial operations.
We intervene in the structuring, negotiation and finalization of complex fundraising campaigns, particularly in infrastructure and mining projects in Africa.
Our firm has developed leading-edge expertise in this field, which allows us to offer our clients appropriate assistance and to defend their legal and economic interests
In particular, our team advised several private companies in Africa for more than five years in the fields of Publics Works, the construction of hydro-electric power plants and the distribution of drinking water through various African towns.

Fiscal

We provide assistance to our clients throughout the whole process of their operations, whether be it as legal advice or as tax disputes
Our team intervenes in all the fiscal operations related to the acquisition and/or cession of companies. We also have cutting-edge know-how in terms of company assistance during tax audits and litigations.
We are active in all kinds of operations related to different fiscal and legal procedures, and we have extensive experience in terms of negotiation with the tax authorities and/or during tax audits.

Team

Zied GALLALA Senior Partner

E-mail : zied.gallala@gallalalawfirm.com

Bar admission : Tunis (2005). Zied Gallala founded the firm in 2009. He mainly operates in project finance operations as well as in litigation and arbitration.

Main Areas of expertise :
Arbitration, Corporate law, Stock Exchange Law, Social Law, OHADA Law, PPP and Project Financing

Education : Masters degree in Business Law (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2004)
Master of Advanced Studies in Economic and Business Law (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2005)

Member of the Canadian-Tunisian Chamber of Commerce
Member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Center of Tunis
Attorney of the Maltese Embassy in Tunis

Languages : French, English and Arabic

SALAH GALALA International Expert, Financial Engineer

E-mail :salah.gallala@gallalalawfirm.com

Specialized in the financing of SMEs, the establishing of financial operations of long-term assets, Salah has already engineered several IPOs on the primary market in France,
worth more than 100 million Euros.
He has developed an expertise acknowledged by the financial markets, not only in France but also in the Maghreb region. Since 2012, Salah has been focusing on the Maghreb and Africa.
Indeed, he is a founding member of Alphamena, the unique independent equity research firm in the MENA region, subsidiary of the European group AlphaValue.

Main Areas of expertise :
Corporate Finance Corporate Finance
IPOs Fusions-acquisitions
Equity Finance Introduction en bourse
and Financial Analysis Financement

Education : Masters Degree in Financial Engineering -IAE of Nice, 2005
Masters Degree in Monetary and Financial Economics and International Capital Markets (University of Paris Dauphine, 2006)

Languages : French, English and Arabic

Wissem KEFI Senior Counsel

E-mail : wissem.kefi@gallalalawfirm.com

Bar admission : Tunis (2005). Wissem KEFI is one of the founding of Gallala Law Firm.


Main Areas of expertise :
Civil and commercial litigations
Economic Law
Competition Law
tax Law

Education : Masters degree in Private Law, 2002 (University of Law and Political Sciences of Tunis)
Professional Lawyer’s Certificate, 2005
Maitre Wissem KEFI is the author of many articles relating to the issues of Real Estate and Construction Law.

Languages : French and Arabic

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An International Environment

Apart from its international vocation, Gallala Law Firm regularly intervenes in cases requiring an international approach.
In order to develop a common policy to better meet the needs of our clients, our firm has established a strategic alliance with independent law firms in different countries.
This alliance aims to implement common actions so as to better protect the interests of our clients. For this purpose, the firm has a worldwide network of “Best Friends”, law firms with which we very often collaborate and which can recommend us.

Career

As part of its development strategy, Gallala Law Firm regularly recruits young, talented employees. The international orientation of our firm makes us prefer trilingual candidates (Arabic, French and English).

The Firm offers real career opportunities in a friendly and dynamic environment.

For information about any future collaboration prospects, please send your CV, and tell us about your motivations, to the following E-mail address: info@gallalalawfirm.com